Category: UK
Northern Ireland Covid-19 hospital admissions to exceed first wave within days
Health Minister Robin Swann has described the current number of Covid-19 patients in Northern Ireland hospitals as “grave” as it will soon exceed the amount that were admitted during the first wave of the virus. More...
Liverpool UK hospital COVID patients ‘expected to pass April peak’ today
Liverpool hospital covid patients ‘expected to pass April peak’ today. More...
Brazilian COVID vaccine volunteer death – original report from Brazilian news
A Brazilian volunteer who participated in the clinical tests of the vaccine developed by Oxford University and the laboratory AstraZeneca died due to complications from Covid-19, last Thursday. More...
Astrazeneca vaccine volunteer dies in Brazil
A volunteer from the AstraZeneca / Oxford clinical trial in Brazil for the Covid-19 vaccine has died.
UK sees over 26,000 new Covid-19 cases, a new daily record
191 deaths were recorded in the UK in the same period. More...
Coronavirus in England – “tens of thousands” of deaths now inevitable says SAGE professor
John Edmunds, a professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, told MPs on Wednesday that without further measures England’s tiered Covid-19 strategy would lead to high numbers of new infections every day, putting the NHS under strain and driving up the death toll. More...
Boris Johnson confirms Bolton will move to the ‘very high’ coronavirus alert level on Friday
Boris lets off another cracker just before midnight.
BOLTON will be placed under stricter coronavirus controls from Friday after talks between the Government and civic leaders concluded without an agreement. More...
555 Greater Manchester schools affected by Covid
The number of Greater Manchester schools affected by confirmed Covid cases this academic year now stands at 555. More...
Londonderry doctor likened his shift inside the city’s GP Covid centre to a “war zone”
Dr Paul Molloy said the number of people attending the Covid centre on a daily basis was higher than those seeking help in April during the first lockdown
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/strain-on-altnagelvin-hospitals-ability-to-cope-likely-to-worsen-as-medic-says-its-like-war-zone-39648500.html More...
School children and twenty-somethings have driven England’s current Covid-19 outbreak
Deputy chief medical officer Professor Jonathan Van-Tam warned high infection rates have now spread ‘coast to coast’ in England. More...