Drop in New Zealand cases is ‘reassuring indication’ lockdown is working, country’s director-general of health says, Japan says it’s likely that Moderna vaccines were contaminated when needles were stuck into vials
Are UK coronavirus cases actually going down or are they just harder to count?
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For almost two years we’ve been glued to a set of numbers: the grim trio of cases, hospitalisations and deaths that defined coronavirus in the UK. The daily figures led news reports for more than a year: people watche...
Why are monkeypox cases suddenly emerging across the world and could the virus have mutated?
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The sudden emergence of monkeypox in several countries has raised questions about how the virus, which is most common in central and west Africa, has managed to spread. Many health experts have said the monkeypox case...
Hepatitis cases rising among children globally but cause remains a mystery
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A dangerous and mysterious illness continues to spread among children, and so do questions over what’s causing it, including possible links to Covid-19. But it’s too soon to tell what is behind the cases, experts say....
More monkeypox cases detected in UK ‘on daily basis’, sê wetenskaplike
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More monkeypox cases are being detected in Britain “on a daily basis”, a senior doctor has warned, amid reports that a child has been admitted to intensive care with the disease. Dr Susan Hopkins, a chief medical advi...
Johnson blames today’s Brexit woes on Brussels – that’s a load of old bull
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It’s taken a while, but I’ve finally spotted one of those “Brexit opportunities” cited in the job title of the cabinet minister Jacob Rees-Mogg. Thanks to the UK’s departure from the European Union, the British govern...
Nieu-Seeland, once Covid-free, tops 1 million cases since pandemic began
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New Zealand has recorded more than 1m cases of Covid-19, after spending the first 18 months of the pandemic largely free of the virus. The milestone reflects a stark change in New Zealand’s pandemic experience, met ...
Priti Patel blames lawyers as she admits Rwanda plan will ‘take time’
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Priti Patel has admitted that it will take time to establish the government’s high-profile plan to send people who arrive in the UK without authorisation to Rwanda, amid growing suspicion that it will not solve the mi...
Vaccine to stop Covid transmission should now be top priority, says leading UK scientist
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It is questionable how much longer current Covid-19 vaccines will be used as they have largely done their job in preventing mass deaths, and scientists should focus on developing a vaccine that stops transmission of t...