Ulrika Jonsson has given Louise Redknapp sage advice following her split from ex Jamie, saying her divorce is her ‘past’ and not her future. The presenter, 53, gave her words of wisdom in her column for The Sun on Friday where she also reflected on her own romance woes, namely her three divorces from Brian … Read more
Britain’s Covid outbreak is staying flat at 2,750 cases a day despite the spread of the Indian variant, according to a symptom-tracking app, as Boris Johnson tells MPs he is ‘even more optimistic’ the June 21 lockdown easings can go ahead. ZOE and King’s College London’s experts estimated the equivalent of one in 1,796 Brits … Read more
Britain is still on track to fully lift the lockdown on June 21 after ministers revealed growing confidence that the Indian variant is not as transmissible as first feared and that coronavirus vaccines are working against it. While the number of cases of the new strain has quadrupled in the last fortnight, the number of people … Read more
Matt Hancock tonight pleaded with Britons to get both of their Covid jabs as he insisted the vaccines work well against the Indian Covid variant which has quadrupled in the UK in a fortnight. Speaking at a Downing Street press conference, the Health Secretary reiterated earlier remarks from Boris Johnson that SAGE had ‘increasing confidence’ … Read more
Vaccines work well against the Indian coronavirus variant and the strain may be less infecetious than first feared, Boris Johnson and one of his top scientific advisers revealed today. The PM said there was ‘increasing confidence’ among SAGE that the current jabs are highly effective against all variants, including the B.1.617.2 strain which has put England’s … Read more
Before we had vaccines, there were few if any weapons in the fight against Covid-19. But there was one that could at least help reduce your risk of picking up the virus — fresh air. According to research released late last year by the government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), a well-ventilated room can … Read more
The Indian Covid variant that is surging in Britain could spread up to 60 per cent faster than the dominant Kent strain, a scientist has claimed. Professor Tom Wenseleers, a biologist and biostatistician at the KU Leuven university in Belgium, said on Twitter he had analysed how the two strains compared and found the Indian … Read more
The UK today confirmed another 20 Covid deaths and 2,474 infections, as SAGE advisers U-turned on their grisly third wave estimates and slashed predictions for next year’s death toll by a factor of 10. Positive tests were up a quarter on last Tuesday (27 per cent) and the daily average has now been rising for … Read more
Mathematical modellers who advise SAGE have dramatically downgraded their bleak predictions of more than 100,000 further Covid deaths within the next year and a third wave of the virus to rival the first two. Their total death toll projection – which is shown to the Prime Minister and has previously been criticised for being too … Read more
Don’t hug too often, keep embraces short and avoid face-to-face contact, is the message from No10’s cautious scientific advisers ahead of the next major relaxation of Covid rules. Boris Johnson will announce England’s next steps out of lockdown at a 5pm Downing Street press conference today, where he is expected to confirm that friends and … Read more