Now BROWSING is banned! SAGE scientist says Christmas shoppers must spend no more than 15 MINUTES in store because ‘the less time you are in there, the safer you are’ from Covid SAGE member Professor Lucy Yardley today delivered a shopping warning She suggested that people should try to spend less than 15 minutes in … Read more
‘I’m the coolest mum at my daughter’s school! Denise Van Outen joins the cast of Fireman Sam as the crazed scientist Professor Polonium By Laura Fox For Mailonline Published: 00:00 GMT, 26 November 2020 | Updated: 00:06 GMT, 26 November 2020 Denise Van Outen has revealed she’s joined the cast of Fireman Sam as the … Read more
Just 9,854 new infections were recorded in England yesterday, almost half of the number of diagnoses last Tuesday (18,626) Local lockdown tiers announced tomorrow may already be outdated and ‘unjustified’ when England’s national shutdown lapses next week because Covid infections are plummeting across the country, according to one of Britain’s top infectious disease experts. Just … Read more
Can you catch Covid twice? Top scientist says risk is ‘low’ but admits as many as 10% of recovered patients could get the virus again as self-isolating Boris Johnson claims he’s ‘bursting with antibodies’ Imperial College’s Danny Altmann said recovered patients ‘should not be blasé’ Scientists have found ‘hard confirmed’ cases of people infected twice … Read more
Encouraging the public to visit bars and restaurants and then closing hospitality due to a spike in Covid-19 cases is not a ‘sensible way to run the epidemic’, a Government scientific adviser has said. Professor John Edmunds, a member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), urged a long-term strategy when it comes to … Read more
Pfizer’s top scientist has said it is already working on a powder form of its breakthrough COVID-19 vaccine that could solve its biggest problem around freezing the jab. Pfizer’s chief scientific officer Mikael Dolsten told Business Insider Monday a second version of the vaccine is already being planned and could be available next year. The pharma giant … Read more
Scientist warns ‘lockdown will be a let down’ unless there is ‘radical reform’ of Test and Trace with contract tracing carried out locally Sir John Oldham made the claim after national tracing programme hit a new low Just 59.9% of close contacts of those testing positive were reached last week Bungling test and trace system … Read more
Bird-brained scheme: Scientist trains magpies to exchange bottle caps for food using high-tech bird feeder A computer scientist trained magpies to trade bottle caps for food Hans Forsberg built a birdbox that uses a Raspberry Pi system and sensors Birds drop a bottle cap through a hole and sensors activate the feeder The feeder releases … Read more
France is probably seeing more than 100,000 coronavirus infections per day, the government’s chief pandemic adviser has admitted, as the official toll hit a record 52,000 cases on Sunday. Jean-Francois Delfraissy, who leads France’s Scientific Council, said he has been shocked by the ‘brutality’ of the second wave that is currently hitting Europe. Once asymptomatic … Read more
Pubs and restaurants are ‘bearing the brunt’ of local lockdown rules because there is no proof that anywhere else is more closely linked to the virus spreading and officials don’t want to close schools again. Professor Mark Woolhouse, an Edinburgh University epidemiologist and member of SAGE sub-group SPI-M, told MPs today it was a ‘reasonable’ … Read more