The Principle trial at Oxford University has selected Ivermectin for inclusion in its study of repurposed drugs for COVID-19, meaning 14 months after its potential was discovered the drug might finally be approved.
Nadhim Zahawi claims Boris's decision to "pause" the easing of restrictions has saved "thousands of lives" because it means more people are being vaccinated. But the roll-out wouldn't have stopped on Freedom Day, would it?
Chinese scientists have deleted dozens of test samples from patients in Wuhan from an international database used to track the evolution of Covid, in an "obscure" move that some say acts as proof of the lab leak theory.
There was a good letter in the Telegraph today co-signed by Lockdown Sceptics contributor David Campbell and his colleague Kevin Dowd blaming Imperial College's alarmist modelling last March for the pickle we're in.
More than 60% of U.K. adults have been fully vaccinated against Covid, with roughly 80% of all those aged 18 and over having received at least one dose of a Covid vaccine.
Scientists in India have upgraded the 'Nepal' variant to a variant of concern which they're calling 'Delta-plus', having detected nearly two dozen cases in three states.
Australia will gradually phase out the use of the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine in its national vaccine roll-out because of safety concerns.
Mask-wearing and social distancing should stay in place because it is "inevitable" that new Covid variants will be able to "break through the vaccine-related protection in a few people", says WHO official David Nabarro.
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.
The models from SAGE and others all forecast a huge summer surge as we reopen, but the predictions are already wrong. With the peak expected in the next month, we'll soon know how wrong they are.
