David Speigelhalter News Today

The latest bond film is delayed again, dealing another blow to ailing cinemas. We start with some breaking news this hour the reproduction number, known as the r value of coronavirus transmission has fallen slightly. Its now estimated to be between 0. 8 and one across the uk. Thats according to the Government Office for science and the Scientific Advisory group for emergencies, or sage as theyre better known. Its first time in over a month the r number has fallen below one and means that on aver...

Britain may look like it’s back to normal after the lockdowns but one alarming trend that emerged in 2020 is very much still with us: people dying at home, who would once have been seen in hospital. This is called ‘excess’ at-home deaths; a number very energetically reported when deaths related to C...

Anti-vaxxers are using statistics from the UK's Health Security Agency to claim those who are triple-vaccinated are more likely to be infected with COVID-19 than the unvaccinated. But they're using inaccurate population estimates.

Boris Johnson is understood to be currently drawing up plans for a living with Covid strategy in a bid to avoid any long-term restrictions.

Food processing staff, border force officers and air traffic controllers will be among those to receive the swab amid deafening calls for a five-day isolation policy.

Experts at the Centre for Economics and Business Research predicted there will be an economic cost to the country when the absenteeism rate hits 25 per cent.

Engineer, 27, died weeks after having first AstraZeneca covid jab Emer Scully For Mailonline © Provided by Daily Mail MailOnline logo A fit and healthy engineer has tragically died just three weeks after taking the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine. Jack Last, 27, died at Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge on Tuesday, April 20, just 11 days after attending A&E because he was suffering from headaches.  The field service engineer, from Stowmarket, Suffolk, who was fit as ever, accord...