Millions of Londoners and people from Essex will face tougher Tier2 Covid measures from Saturday, with a ban on households mixing indoors. Under Tier2, households are also barred from mixing in pubs and restaurants and people should aim to reduce the use of public transport, amid Manchester moving to the highest level of Covid restrictions.…
The most important day in 2020 is the global handwashing day, which has never been so critical than now, during the pandemic. Global handwashing day, people are more acquainted with soap than ever before as we wash our hands to help stop the spread of coronavirus and also prevent 1 in 3 diarrheal illness 40…
Clarity of statistics amid disinformation and mutant algorithms The threat of pandemic had made us crave data: Millions pore over R numbers, the technicalities of vaccine trials and testing accuracy, once of interest only to biostatisticians, are now daily front page news. Can we really trust the statistics our governments are publishing about the virus? Does…
In only a matter of months Dogs trained at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine could accurately detect a person with Covid-19 symptoms from a crowd or at ports of entry, and other large gathering like arenas, and football stadiums. In the absence of a credible Covid-19 vaccine, man’s best friend Dog will…
The world’s coronavirus death toll has surpassed one million with the US, Brazil, and India making nearly half of the total, according to Johns Hopkins University, within 10 months after new began to emerge about mysterious cases of viral pneumonia in Wuhan, China. As the testing rates in many countries remain low with the virus-related…
New Precision medicine for treating advanced prostate cancer has been called a “breakthrough” by a leading cancer charity. Olaparib and Ipatasertib have the potential to become the first precision medicines for advanced prostate cancer, according to research presented at the European Society for Medical Oncology’s Virtual Congress 2020. These medicines allow doctors to select the…
Coronavirus surpasses 30 million cases and 945, 166 deaths affecting 213 countries and territories around the world, and 2 international conveyances. “We must keep on protecting each other “Wash your hands, cover your face, Make space if you have symptoms book a test”, according to NHS UK. The main symptoms of coronavirus (COVID-19) are a…
UK economy recovered half of GDP lost since the start of the pandemic lockdown, amid faster rate virus spreading with the R number rising from 1 to 1.2, as the government faces backlash on new curbs. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said that the UK “ has still only recovered just over half of…
The Fire safety guidance for what materials could be used on Grenfell Tower was confusing, according to the director of the cladding company which installed the cladding has told an inquiry which is in its second phase. Ray Bailey, director of Harley Facades said there was “ quite widespread” confusion in the building industry at…
Activists seeking to legalise cannabis in Israel dropped via a drone several hundreds of packets of the drug in Tel Aviv after they promised free marijuana on social media. Passers-by managed to collect a few of the bags before police arrived according to the Maariv News website. The footage showed people walking through busy traffic…