Big events of 50 people or more could be more Covid safe than modest parties of 10 to 20 people, according to SAGE scientists. People don’t actually mix with a lot of people at large gatherings and only rarely go to them so experts say they may not pose much risk of transmission. But smaller … Read more
Pink tells her daughter Willow Sage a riveting bedtime story as the child eagerly asks ‘what happens next?’ in teaser for music video to All I Know So Far By Sam Joseph Semon For Dailymail.com Published: 19:55 BST, 6 May 2021 | Updated: 19:55 BST, 6 May 2021 Pink released a trailer for the upcoming … Read more
Professor Stephen Reicher said passports wouldn’t be needed if everyone was jabbed Green-lighting domestic Covid vaccine passports would be an admission by ministers that the jab rollout is destined to fail, a Government scientist warned today. Professor Stephen Reicher, a top social psychologist who sits on SAGE, said forcing people to produce jab certificates to … Read more
Professor Stephen Reicher said passports wouldn’t be needed if everyone was jabbed Green-lighting domestic Covid vaccine passports would be an admission by ministers that the jab rollout is destined to fail, a Government scientist warned today. Professor Stephen Reicher, a top social psychologist who sits on SAGE, said forcing people to produce jab certificates to … Read more
Even Professor Neil Ferguson is now optimistic that vaccines will squash the UK’s third wave of Covid and life in Britain will ‘feel a lot more normal by the summer’. The SAGE adviser and Imperial College London epidemiologist, whose sobering death toll predictions led Britain into its first lockdown last year, said today that he expects the … Read more
More than 100,000 worshippers attended the Lag B’Omer festival in Israel despite reports from 2008 and 2011 warning it posed a ‘danger to human life’ and that the capacity shouldn’t exceed 15,000. Ex-comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss, who wrote a report from 13 years ago, said safety features were lacking in preventing overcrowding and that the site … Read more
The risk of catching coronavirus in a pub or restaurant is ‘relatively low’, the Government’s scientific advisers have admitted. Analysis by SAGE found the chance of contracting the virus in hospitality settings appeared slightly higher than in gyms or shops, but concluded the risk was still small. The admission came in a review of studies … Read more
The victims of the Lag B’Omer festival stampede have begun to be identified as Israel comes to terms with one of the worst peace-time disasters in the country’s history. Among those killed were two pairs of brothers: Yosef and Moshe Elhadad, 18 and 12, and Moshe and Joshua Englander, aged 14 and 9; Shraga Gestetner, … Read more
Only tiny numbers of people are being hospitalised with coronavirus after their first vaccine dose has kicked in, NHS data has revealed. Numbers analysed by SAGE showed that around one per cent of people hospitalised with the virus in the second wave were three weeks post-vaccine, by which time they are expected to have protection. … Read more
Only tiny numbers of people are being hospitalised with coronavirus after their first vaccine dose has kicked in, NHS data has revealed. Numbers analysed by SAGE showed that around one per cent of people hospitalised with the virus in the second wave were three weeks post-vaccine, by which time they are expected to have protection. … Read more