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PREMIUM Professor Rowland Kao (inset) said being able to detect and track areas at risk from outbreaks will become increasingly important as we go back into autumn and winter SCIENTISTS are devising an early warning system for Covid which they hope will prevent any future lockdowns. The researchers are developing ways of pooling geographical data on vaccine uptake with wastewater surveillance to identify virus hotspots and higher risk areas as they emerge. Genetic material from the virus ...

BBC News Published image copyrightGetty Images Every adult who has tested positive for Covid-19 in Scotland is to be invited to take part in a major new study into the effects of long Covid. Researchers hope to identify how many people in Scotland continue to be unwell after having the virus. The Covid in Scotland Study (CISS) will ask people what their symptoms are and how it affects their lives. Those taking part will be asked to use a phone app to answer questions about their health before ...

All Scots who have tested positive for coronavirus to receive text invitation for long Covid study Updated: May 12, 2021, 9:13 am © Shutterstock / natatravel Anyone who has tested positive will receive a text All Scots who have tested positive for Covid-19 will be invited to take part in a landmark long Covid study. Led by Glasgow University, researchers plan to use an app to collect information from people who have had the virus to see how many are still struggling. Some of the most common ef...

Reasons behind the UKs four Covid infection hotspots A handful of areas are experiencing a jump in cases, which have pushed rates back to levels last seen earlier this year The video will auto-play soon8Cancel Play now Sign up to our newsletter for daily updates and breaking newsInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign up here! When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordance with ourPriv...

Covid-19 case rates in most areas of the UK have returned to levels last seen around eight months ago, with the number of new cases of coronavirus similar to those recorded in late August and early September. Some 370 of 380 local areas – 97% – are currently recording rates below 50 cases per 100,000 people, with nearly one in four having rates that have dropped into single figures, according to analysis by the PA news agency. (PA Graphics) But a small handful of areas are currently experie...

A major new COVID-19 study is being launched in Scotland to understand the long-term health of people who have had COVID-19.Led by the University of Glasgow, in collaboration with Public Health Scotland and the NHS in Scotland, and funded by the Scot

Submitting... Variants are given this level when they meet at least one of several markers, including being highly transmissible, causing more severe illness or being more resistant to treatment or vaccination. The Kent variant, now responsible for the majority of the cases in Scotland, is also a variant of concern. A relative wearing Personal Protective Equipment (PPR kit) performs the last rites before the cremation of a person who died due to the Covid-19 coronavirus at a cremation ground i...

The First Minister has been back at her desk after the SNP won the Scottish Parliament election.

The vacination programme is helping drive down infections Pubs and restaurants would also be allowed to serve alcohol indoors in Level 2, while cinemas, theatres, concert  halls, music venues,  comedy clubs, amusement arcades and bingo halls would all be allowed to reopen – although soft play centres, funfairs, bowling alleys, snooker and pool halls and nightclubs would still have to remain closed. On Monday, Boris Johnson confirmed people in England will be able to hug loved ones, dine...

Nicola Sturgeons Covid briefing (left) was cut off while Boris Johnsons was featured as part of a 90-minute special THE BBC has been accused of “double standards” after it cut away from Nicola Sturgeon’s coronavirus briefing this afternoon, despite having shown Boris Johnson’s in full not 24 hours before. The Scottish Government’s Covid briefing aired on today at 12.15pm on BBC One Scotland. The First Minister had been speaking for around 20 minutes when she was cut off. The ...