Dragana Gordic/Shutterstock For nearly two years, millions of members of the public have been submitting daily health reports to the ZOE COVID Study, helping us to track the pandemic as it unfolds. In particular, the 480 million reports submitted via the study’s app have shown that as the virus hasContinue Reading
THE BBC could barely conceal its satisfaction as Britain notched up 150,000 deaths “with Covid” this weekend. The toll, it noted, was equal to the entire population of Oxford. BBC dooms-mongers paint Boris’s Britain as a Covid catastrophe – they’ll never admit we’re showing Europe the way out To emphasiseContinue Reading
Kamil Macniak/Shutterstock As soon as omicron was first identified in Botswana and South Africa, two key questions arose: whether this new variant was more infectious than earlier ones, and whether it caused more or less severe disease. It’s clear from how rapidly the variant has spread and how quickly casesContinue Reading
Luke Pollard, the MP for Plymouth Sutton and Devonport, has today called for all schools in Plymouth to be fully ventilated by the end of 2022 to tackle COVID. The call comes after the government announced it would be rolling out 7,000 new air purifiers to schools this year, a figureContinue Reading
YOUNG children with Omicron are developing a specific symptom that usually points to another condition, experts have said. A number of kids under five who catch the variant seem to be suffering with a bad cough. Children under 5 with a barking cough could have Omicron[/caption] It’s a type ofContinue Reading
i viewfinder/Shutterstock If you have a cold, don’t ask your doctor for antibiotics – that’s the golden rule. They’re for bacterial infections, not viral ones. We’re told not only that they won’t work, but that by using antibiotics when they aren’t needed, we’re helping bacteria become resistant to them. YetContinue Reading
Spain’s bullfighting season traditionally kicks off in February in Valdemorillo, a small town located approximately 40km outside of Madrid. It wouldn’t usually attract big names, but in 2022, star matador Morante de la Puebla has confirmed his appearance. In a profession characterised by internal divisions, there is a growing senseContinue Reading
RIOT police armed with batons and shields clashed with thousands of anti-lockdown protesters in the Dutch capital today. Crowds gathered in Amsterdam‘s Museum Square to object against Covid-19 measures and vaccinations – despite a country-wide ban on group meet-ups. Getty Images – Getty A police dog attacks a demonstrator protestingContinue Reading
Jacob Lund/Shutterstock We are in a crisis now – and omicron has made it harder to imagine the pandemic ending. But it will not last forever. When the COVID outbreak is over, what do we want the world to look like? In the early stages of the pandemic – fromContinue Reading
PUB landlords in England are gearing up for an invasion of Scottish and Welsh drinkers on New Year’s Eve as anger grows at the nations’ different Covid curbs. Up to 100,000 could cross borders after Boris Johnson announced no new limits, in contrast to Scotland boss Nicola Sturgeon and Wales’sContinue Reading