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Heres our health correspondent. naomi grimley reports. for months, the office for national statistics and oxford university have been asking hundreds of thousands of us to do swabs for their research. do you have any symptoms? its the biggest study of its kind in the world. unlike other studies, which have looked at how effective the vaccines are at keeping people out of hospital, this one has looked at how good they are at preventing any infection by the delta variant. the study showed the pfiz...

On the bbc news channel, the latest on the opening day of the womens open golf at carnoustie, where the world number one and olympic champion, nellie korda, is amongst the favourites. a new study has found that both the pfizer and the astrazeneca jabs are still offering good protection against the delta variant of covid. the research, led by oxford university, is the largest survey of covid infection in the uk. it suggests pfizer works best initially, but theyre equally as effective in the long ...

Drunk off here for 14 days and that is somebody coming in and it is really stringent. —— you get dragged off here. i have had covid twice this is my second time in an iq because i came back last year and just as i was meant to leave to come back to new zealand from the uk, i tested positive and i had to isolate in the uk. i had to recover and get a negative test and come here but the testing here is so stringent that if they pick up a weak positive tested me so i have been stuck in my room s...

Front of me, on the ground. and this is the very area where she was found when law enforcement entered the home that night. >> which they also said was completely consistent with the testimony that heidy would have fallen after only a step or two. >> she would have gone to the ground immediately >> your argument is that she did fall down, and she fell right about here? >> yes, that is exactly what our argument is. >> according to moffat, this was not a simple mistake. >> is this just a case of a...

Test those swabs themselves. conrads hands were negative for residue. there was a question as to whether conrad had washed his hands before they were tested so those results or meaningless >> that is probably why they did not test in the first place. >> as for heidys swabs, there was no residue on her left hand, but there was on her right hand. and significantly, heidy was right handed >> when you have gunshot residue in a look ocean, and in a quantity that is absolutely consistent with firing a...

Remain high across the uk. they want to see more data to be confident that we are past the peak of this current wave. now, this data looks at the last week ofjuly so its backward —looking and you can still test positive several weeks after an initial infection so it often takes longerfor after an initial infection so it often takes longer for the daily case figures to show up in the ons data but the survey is seen as a more reliable source of data because it is based on a random sample of swab...

Daily cases have slowed in the last couple of days. we are now seeing roughly around 26,000 new infections a day on average over the last week. by a day on average over the last week. by that measure. but the ons is seen as a really reliable source of data because it is a random port —— random sample of swabs from households, including those who are asymptomatic. so it gives us the bigger picture, rather than on the daily figures that rely on people with symptoms coming forward for tests. ex...

Cases, thats slowed in the last couple of days, on average 26,000 new infections a day in the last week, but the 0ns infection survey is seen as a reliable source of data because it is a random sample of swabs from households, giving it a bigger picture rather than the daily figures which rely on people with symptoms coming forward. these figures add to the data that the fall is real and it has been reflected in a drop in hospital admissions, about 10% in the last week. thats not to say cases co...

The number of people testing positive for than in england, scotland and wales but infections are still rising in northern ireland. this is the first uk fall since early may but they say that infection rates are still high in the uk and they want to see more data to be confident that we are past the peak of this convent way. this date looks at the last week of july so it is backward love king and you can still test positive several weeks after an initial infection so it often takes longer for the...

But the survey is seen as a more reliable source of data because its based on a random sample of swabs from households, including people who are asymptomatic, so it gives a bigger picture of whats going on rather than the daily figures that rely on people coming forward with symptoms. now, weve also had the r number for england, and its fallen compared to last week. its now 0.8—1.1, so, to put that into context, for every 10 infected people, on average theyd expect to pass the virus on to betw...