Zero Daily Deaths Announced In the Whole Of the U.K. for First Time
The U.K. has reported zero deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test for the first time amid calls from Government advisors for lockdown to be extended past June 21st.
The U.K. has reported zero deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test for the first time amid calls from Government advisors for lockdown to be extended past June 21st.
The lifting of lockdown restrictions has been halted in much of Scotland because of the Indian Covid variant, but there is “cautious optimism” that the final step of England's roadmap could go ahead as planned.
Lockdowns and other restrictive measures introduced by governments across the world brought on a "consistent global drop in access to cancer care" during the first wave of Covid, according to a new review of 69 studies.
Professor Robert Dingwall, a member of the advisory group NERVTAG, says that "we have to push on" with unlocking because Covid no longer poses a great threat to society, whereas the "collateral damage" of lockdown does.
The Prime Minister has indicated his support for a £15 billion scheme which would see the school day extended by 30 minutes in order to help make up for the disruption caused to education by lockdowns.
Shutting the borders in January would have bought us time, but it might have simply postponed the epidemic until the winter. Cummings is therefore wrong to suggest that it was "obviously" the right thing to do.
A summary of all the most interesting stories that have appeared about the virus in the past 24 hours – not just in Britain, but around the world.
So do the vaccines not work then? That's the impression you'd get from the way various members of SAGE are carrying on, warning of new waves and new variants and the need to delay the end of lockdown even further.
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