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The latest figures came as scientists have said COVID booster jabs provide 90 percent protection against hospitalization in the over-65s for at least three months. It means that there is "no immediate need" for a fourth jab to be administered to vulnerable people, the UK Health Security Agenc...
PresidentJoe Bidenhas made reopening the nation’s schools for in-person instruction one of his top priorities. He pledged in December to reopen the majority of the country’s schools in his first 100 days after taking office, but Biden did not define what it meant for a school to “reopen...
The number of cases rapidly escalated in late mid March 2020. By March 12th, 2020 the UK had over 1000 cases of the virus. Report Coronavirus Tracker Category Public Health Region United Kingdom Source Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering Stats Last Value 24.66M Latest ...
More than 90 percent of people aged 12 and over in Britain have had their first dose of vaccine and around 82 percent have received both doses, according to the latest figures. More than 59 percent have received booster jabs, or the third dose of a coronavirus vaccine. ...
Masks did not reduce risk of COVID infection after first Omicron wave, UK research shows "Our research shows that there were changes in some risk factors around the time that the Omicron BA.2 variant became dominant,” said Prof. Paul Hunter of Norwich Medical School. ...
LONDON, Dec. 24 (Xinhua) -- Britain has reported another 122,186 coronavirus cases in the latest 24-hour period, exceeding 120,000 daily cases for the first time since of the start of the pandemic, according to official figures released Friday. ...
It is the largest number of UK deaths announced on a single day since the start of the outbreak and brings the total to 21.
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Deloitte has confirmed a surge in UK profits helped by public sector contracts during the pandemic, saying that its work on the response to Covid-19 was “essential”. The consultancy firm, which employs 20,000 people in the UK, was one of the big winners from the government’s heavily ...