Tag: Britain
The real reason Britain rejected vaccine passports
The UK health secretary Sajid Javid has said plans for Covid-19 vaccine passports to gain access to nightclubs and other crowded venues in England “will not be going ahead”.… ...More...
UK: 30% vaccine breakthrough rate reported by Covid App
According to ZOE COVID Study incidence figures, there are currently 51,961 new daily symptomatic cases of COVID in the UK on average, based on PCR and LFT test data from up to five days ago.… ...More...
Britain surrenders to the coronavirus
“We can’t control the spread of the virus. The virus is doing what it’s doing and we have to react to that”.… ...More...
UK Covid-19 death rate equivalent to four Airbus A320’s crashing every week
Britain is currently seeing around 650 people a week die of Covid-19.… ...More...
UK: Vaccine booster program to start in September 2021
The UK JCVI’s interim advice, based on existing evidence, is to offer COVID-19 booster vaccines to the most vulnerable, starting from September 2021.… ...More...
From Alpha to Delta – how Britain won and then lost the fight against coronavirus
After months of being ravaged by the Alpha variant (B.1.1.7) in 2020, Britain seemed to turn a corner in its fight with the coronavirus in early 2021.… ...More...
Hong Kong: all passenger flights from UK banned to curb coronavirus – Britain deemed “extremely high-risk”
Hong Kong will ban all passenger flights from the United Kingdom from Thursday (Jul 1) to curb the spread of the Delta variant of COVID-19, the government said on Monday.… ...More...
UK: PHE on Delta Variant – 6.2% vaccine breakthrough with both doses
I see people stressing about vaccination death data due to some unclear #scicomms on here…
So here it is: we know of 33,206 cases of Delta variant (28,917 with vax info)
1,785 were fully vaccinated and *still* got infected (6.2% of cases)
Of these 1,785, 12 died (0.7%)
— Meaghan Kall (@kallmemeg) June 11, 2021
… ...More...Will leave the brilliant @JamesWard73 to estimate VE against those numbers
Of note is the high % of severe outcomes among people breakthrough infections.
UK: one week until B.1.617.2 Delta coronavirus variant takes off
9th June 2021: If the previous waves of Sars-CoV-2 in the UK are anything to go by, Britain is less than one week away from the B16172 Delta variant exploding into another full-blown national health crisis.… ...More...
UK: What happens after June 21st 2021 – Britain’s coronavirus “Freedom Day”?
By Step 4 which will take place no earlier than 21 June, the UK government hopes to be in a position to remove all legal limits on social contact.… ...More...