India’s Covid Crisis What to Know Map and Case Count Inside the Crisis Undercounted Deaths The Oxygen Crisis How to Help Advertisement Continue reading the main story Supported by Continue reading the main story The Delta Variant: What Scientists Know The variant is gaining traction worldwide. But vaccines are driving down coronavirus case numbers in… Read More »
Dr Jenny Harries, chief executive of the UK Health Security Agency said: “Cases are rising rapidly across the country and the Delta variant is now dominant. The increase is primarily in younger age groups, a large proportion of which were unvaccinated but are now being invited to receive the vaccine. BBC News – Health
Freedom Day on a knife edge: Just 3% of Brits infected with the Indian Covid variant were fully vaccinated but the boffins are still counselling caution PHE analysis shows only 177 out of 5,599 people who caught the mutant strain had already had both jabs Top scientists called the findings ‘incredibly reassuring’, bolstering the case… Read More »
Ministers make humiliating climbdown over Indian variant hotspot travel ban and say people should use their own ‘judgement’ as local Tory and Labour leaders say the advice posted online was a ‘mistake’ and and people CAN visit family and go on holiday Guidance applies to: Bolton, Blackburn, Kirklees, Bedford, Burnley, Leicester, Hounslow and North Tyneside… Read More »
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Second jabs for the over-50s and clinically vulnerable will be given sooner to ease concerns, PM says. BBC News – Health
Public Health England designated variant B.1.617.2, one of three variants identified in India that has spread to Britain, a variant of concern. Surge testing was being carried out in areas where evidence indicates community spread. Cases of the B.1.617.2 variant increased to 520 from 202 over the last week, PHE said, mainly in London and… Read More »