A handful of London boroughs recorded decreases in their Covid rates in the week before Christmas, the latest data reveals. An Evening Standard analysis of the latest Covid figures reveals that Hackney... Read more »
Published: 10:47 AM January 13, 2022 Covid cases among patients at east London hospitals are still rising, but at a slower rate than in previous weeks. A total of 221 patients had... Read more »
The UK is about to be hit by a large wave of Covid hospitalisations and the peak could be even higher than last winter despite the reduced severity of Omicron, SAGE have warned. In... Read more »
Up to 40 per cent of patients hospitalised with the Omicron variant are unvaccinated, health chiefs have finally revealed in the wake of a transparency row. Officials were accused of scare-mongering for... Read more »
A leading vaccines expert backed Boris Johnson’s refusal to toughen England’s Covid restrictions, saying that mass deaths and hospitalisations from the deadly disease are ‘history’. Professor Sir John Bell, regius professor of... Read more »
What were the key findings of the UKHSA report on Omicron? Omicron is between 50 and 70 per cent less likely to cause hospital admission than Delta The new strain is also... Read more »
B ritain’s Omicron R number is estimated to be between three and five, officials have revealed. That means the a single person infected with the new Covid variant will go on to... Read more »
Social mixing and people travelling between cities rose sharply after the second UK lockdown, before suddenly falling a few days before Christmas 2020, according to new research. Researchers at the University of Southampton’s... Read more »