Category: Northern Ireland
UK: The Covid-19 inquiry cover-up begins
“The inquiry is becoming a farce and an exercise in cover-up.”… ...More...
UK: Fresh Covid-19 wave kicks off
The ZOE Covid app is showing that cases have started to climb in Britain again – just as schoolkids head back to school after the summer break.… ...More...
UK: Long Covid recognised as a disability by employment tribunal
The decision in the employment tribunal case of Burke v Turning Point Scotland is one of the first in the UK to address specific facts and has found that the long Covid symptoms suffered by Mr Burke amounted to a disability.… ...More...
BMJ: Stop gaslighting the public over Covid-19
“The government must stop gaslighting the public and be honest about the threat the pandemic still poses to them and the NHS”.… ...More...
UK ONS: nearly 3.5 million infections in the UK in the last week
The UK Covid horror show continues….
The latest coronavirus numbers from the UK Office of National Statistics show that nearly 3.5 million people were infected with Covid in the last week, that’s more than one in twenty people in every area of the country.… ...More...
UK: New pandemic-high record for Covid cases
The UK has just breached its all-time record for new Covid cases.… ...More...
UK: Pandemic record Covid infection rates in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
Data from the ZOE Covid-19 app today shows that there are pandemic record Covid incidence rates in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.… ...More...
UK: Over FOUR MILLION symptomatic Covid infections recorded
The ZOE Covid-19 app is showing that infections in Great Britain are spiralling out of control, with over FOUR MILLION symptomatic infections being recorded today.… ...More...
Jenny Harris: Quite likely BA.5 hospitalizations will exceed those of BA.2
Dr Jenny Harris, of the UKHSA, has said in an interview today that it is quite likely that BA.5 hospitalizations will “peak over” those of the Omicron BA.2 wave, meaning that Britain could see the highest hospitalization figures for eighteen months.… ...More...
UK: Over 3 million symptomatic cases of Covid-19
The UK ZOE Covid app is reporting that, for the second time in just over three months, more than three million people in the UK have symptomatic Covid.… ...More...
UK: More than 1,000 cases of Monkeypox in Britain
Up to 26 June 2022 there were 1,076 laboratory confirmed cases in the UK.… ...More...
Scotland: One person in twenty infected with Covid-19
The latest report from the Office of National Statistics shows a big increase in COVID-19 cases across the four nations of the UK, and particularly in Scotland.… ...More...
Europe: 2022 summer covid wave already larger than European winter wave of 2020
Despite an almost complete lack of Covid testing across Europe, case numbers in the current summer wave are already higher than last year’s summer wave of 2021, AND the winter wave of 2020.… ...More...
UK ONS: Large increase in re-infections since Omicron
ONS: “There has been a large increase in the rates for all re-infections and re-infections with a high viral load since the Omicron variants became most common.”… ...More...