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Professor Leitch made the claims at the Scottish Governments daily COVID-19 briefing on February 26 with Health Secretary Jeane Freeman. Mr Leitch was responding to comments made by Professor Mark Woolhouse who said Scotland did not come close to eliminating COVID last summer as had been claimed by the Scottish Government. The Professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh had said earlier this month: “Scotland was not close to elimination at any stage during this...

Data from 'hundreds of millions' of check-ins by people who visited pubs and restaurants before lockdown was 'barely used' by the Test and Trace system.

CAMPAIGNERS urged the government today to get Britain’s test-and-trace effort in order after cases of the Brazilian variant were found in this country. Officials have confirmed the discovery of six cases of the new P1 strain — three in England and three in Scotland. The arrival of the new variant has led to mounting pressure on the government to allow public-health teams to take over contact-tracing work from outsourcing firm Serco. We Own It campaigns officer Pascale Robinson said: “The ...

The so-called UK variant now accounts for about 92% of cases in this country.

Pubs opening in April with outdoor service only means more businesses will go under Landlords with no outside space are devastated by the prospect of al fresco service only 22 February 2021 • 9:15am Allowing pub gardens to open might seem like a way of easing the industry back onto its feet but many landlords think its not viable Credit: John Lawrence “You cant blame customers for wanting a pint in the spring sun, but itll still be a tough blow to bear,” says Chris Welsh, bar manager of ...

Gogglebox bosses deny claims of inhumane working conditions behind the scenes The programmes team squashed rumours after former crew member claimed the working conditions are poor Updated The video will auto-play soon8Cancel Play now Sign up to the Hull Live 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. Sometimes they’ll include rec...

Ian Sinclair asks ROY WILKES from the Zero Covid campaign to explain what ‘zero-Covid’ actually means, whether other nations have had success following this strategy and what concerned citizens can do to support the campaign

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Macron government rejects national lock-down in France Yesterday, French authorities reported that 969 people had died in the space of 24 hours on December 29, bringing the official total in the past week to 2,376, and the total since the beginning of the pandemic to 64,078. Over ten thousand cases are being reported every day, though this is likely a significant underestimate due to reduced testing through the holiday period. Over 48 hours from December 24 to 25, more than 40,000 new cases wer...

French testing system missed 9 of 10 COVID-19 cases after first lock-down On December 21, Nature published a peer-reviewed accelerated article titled, “Under-detection of cases of COVID-19 in France threatens epidemic control.” In the paper, epidemiologists and data scientists led by Giulia Pullano use mathematical modelling to chart the estimated spread of the virus in France over seven weeks—from the end of lock-down measures, on May 11, to June 28. They compare this estimated spread o...