Category: UK
Long Covid could claim up to 700 doctors in Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland could lose up to 700 hospital doctors as a result of the pandemic, it has been warned. More...
Britain finally closes its borders to coronavirus – 1 year too late
“UK shuts travel corridors and requires negative Covid tests to enter
All foreign arrivals will also have to quarantine in toughening of measures in response to new strains
The UK is to close all access to the country for overseas travellers without proof of a recent negative coronavirus test and 10 days of quarantine, shutting all travel corridors, Boris Johnson has announced. More...
MHRA disallows mass lateral flow coronavirus tests in UK schools
“The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) told the [UK] government on Tuesday it had not authorised the daily use of 30-minute tests due to concerns that they give people false reassurance if they test negative.” More...
Tracking the international spread of SARS-CoV-2 lineages B.1.1.7 and B.1.351/501Y-V2
“As of 7th Jan 2021, 45 countries had reported the presence of B.1.1.7 and 13 countries had reported B.1.351/501Y.V2. More...
UK SIREN Study: 6,000 previously positive Covid health workers studied, 44 reinfections found
“The Siren Study has collected a really important UK healthcare worker dataset to look at reinfection risk – a point of considerable ongoing concern to healthcare workers and the rest of us. More...
Cornwall: near 500% rise in cases of Covid-19 in children aged 0-4yrs over Xmas
A week on week comparison of the rates of infection per hundred thousand reveal that some of the largest increases in percentages in the week from December 24 (Christmas Eve) to December 31 (New Year’s Eve) are in children under four years old (increase of 485.7%), those aged 70 to 74 (367.2%) and 85 to 89 (433.3%). More...
UK hospitals told to start vaccinating all frontline staff for Covid-19 immediately
All NHS hospitals across England have been told to start vaccinating frontline health and care workers immediately in the face of growing coronavirus pressures on the health service. More...
Tocilizumab and Sarilumab reduced the relative risk of death from Covid-19 by 24%
NHS patients to receive life-saving COVID-19 treatments that could cut hospital time by 10 days. More...
UK teacher Covid rates up to 333% above average
Covid rates among schools staff in some areas are as much as four times the corresponding local authority average, Tes.com More...
