Cold air in slaughterhouses and meat-packing factories could be behind coronavirus outbreaks, scientists say, suggesting winter could bring a second wave of Covid-19. The entire Welsh island of Anglesey faces being quarantined after 158 staff at the 2 Sisters chicken factory tested positive for the virus, leading to the plant being closed and 560 staff … Read more
Health experts and officials have raised fears of spike in coronavirus cases after demonstrators gathered to protest the against police brutality inflicted upon African Americans following the killing of George Floyd. More beaches, churches, schools and businesses have recently reopened worldwide, but civil unrest in the United States over repeated racial injustice is sparking concern … Read more
Monitoring sewage for high concentrations of coronavirus genetic material might help officials predict new outbreaks up to seven days early, new research suggests. Scientists have recently confirmed that while spit and mucus from coughs and sneezes are the main ways that coronavirus is transmitted, humans also ‘shed’ the virus in feces. Yale University scientists have … Read more
The devastating toll of the Government’s ‘disastrous’ policy of encouraging care homes to take patients with coronavirus is revealed today. Grieving relatives told of their ‘agony and anger’ at losing elderly loved ones because of the strategy, which they say ‘abandoned an entire generation.’ Care home managers also complained that they had been ‘pressured’ into … Read more
Healthy Britons have been repeatedly told during the coronavirus crisis ‘there is no evidence’ wearing face masks will protect them from infection. But data from counties which enforced mandatory mask-wearing suggests they have helped curb the spread of the virus and keep death rates low. Austria seemingly managed to reverse its crisis by making masks … Read more
A lead virologist and her team at a Wuhan lab warned of the possibility of SARS-like coronavirus outbreaks in China 11 months before the novel coronavirus epidemic ravaged the city. The ominous prediction came from a study carried out by Shi Zhengli and her colleagues at the Wuhan Institute of Virology when they stressed the … Read more
Facebook data could help predict the spread of future diseases say researchers who found link between social connections and coronavirus hotspots A new study suggests Facebook data could predict pandemics in early stages The research uses a ‘Social-Connectedness Index’ to link disparate geographies Researchers found a link between COVID-19 hotspots on far-off regions The study suggests … Read more
Coronavirus outbreaks have been recorded in 92 care homes in the last 24 hours alone, the government revealed today as authorities were accused of ‘airbrushing out’ the deaths of hundreds of elderly victims. Chief Medical Officer Professor Chris Whitty said that almost one in seven (13.5 per cent) of the UK’s 11,300 care homes has … Read more
A Nobel Prize-winning scientist from Stanford University has claimed the coronavirus epidemics devastating Italy and New York are finally slowing down. Professor Michael Levitt, who accurately predicted how many cases and deaths would be predicted in China, said Italy and New York are now ‘on the mend’. They are two of the worst-hit places in … Read more
Madrid and London are facing worse coronavirus outbreaks than Lombardy in Italy with deaths doubling every two days – but New York’s mortality rate could be set to outpace them all. The humanitarian cost of the pandemic continues to mount globally as more than 415,000 people have been infected with the deadly disease, and more … Read more