Researchers identified every child in Iceland who caught Covid up to 31 August 2021. No child died, was hospitalised or even had severe symptoms. This puts the risk of severe symptoms for children at less than 0.06%.
Britons should go to work if they have a headache or feel tired, even though both are now officially recognised as Covid symptoms, says Sajid Javid. The chaos will only end when all COVID-19 guidance is lifted.
The Government's scrapping of free Covid tests combined with an expansion to the NHS list of symptoms and advice to stay at home when unwell will trigger a "free for all" of staff absences, experts have warned.
An Israeli study finds 25% of triple-jabbed and 20% of quadruple-jabbed healthcare workers were infected and infectious during the Omicron wave and concludes the vaccine programme has failed to stop the spread.
Of 34 people deliberately infected with coronavirus, just 18 (53%) tested positive by PCR and 17 (50%) had symptomatic infection, confirming how much innate protection many have to the virus.
In January of this year, Japan introduced restrictions on businesses for the first time. Reo Takaku and colleagues analysed data on symptoms, and found no evidence that these measures reduced the spread of Covid.
In April, the ONS estimated that 12% of people who test positive end up getting long COVID. That estimate has now been revised down to 2.5%. And when it comes to children younger than 11, the figure is less than 1%.
Infection 64% less likely to put you in hospital and 72% more likely to be asymptomatic – some good news on the vaccines from ZOE. But for the high risk the news is not all so good.
The latest PHE study shows that hundreds of people with symptomatic COVID-19 were turning up and being vaccinated, despite Government guidance saying people who are unwell should defer the jab.
