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Vanessa Chalmers, Digital Health Reporter
May 4 2021, 9:54 ET
Updated: May 4 2021, 12:25 ET
THE Indian Covid variants are spreading rapidly in parts of the UK and are the cause of around one in 20 new cases, data shows.
Experts have said the rise of the strain may be “masked” by broadly decreasing infection rates.
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Data from COG-UK suggests 18 per cent of cases in the UK in the week ending May 1 were caused by the Indian variant B.1.617.1. But the data is only provisional. This graph shows how cases of the Indian variants have grown since their discovery in comparison to those from South Africa and Brazil
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Hospital transmission is a major driver of infection that is still being ignored
Researchers found that 30 per cent of cases in which patients died, or spent time in critical care, were linked to a recent hospital visit
Almost two thirds of people who died or became severely ill from Covid in December may have caught the disease in hospital, a major study has found.
Researchers from Public Health Scotland s Covid-19 Health Protection Study Group, looked at all Scottish coronavirus cases reported outside of care homes between March 2020 and January 28, 2021.
Over the entire study period, 30 per cent of coronavirus cases in which patients died, or spent time in critical care, were linked to a recent hospital visit, the study showed.
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Top story: Global heating ‘pushing polar vortex south’
Hello, Warren Murray here again, and I can assure you it’s Wednesday … the days can be a bit like that lately can’t they.
Ferocious winter weather sweeping across large parts of the central and southern US has brought record-breaking cold temperatures, left millions without power and killed at least
21 people across multiple states. The worst power outages have been in Texas where more than 4m homes and businesses were cut off on Tuesday in subfreezing temperatures, along with widespread cuts in Mexico and Oregon.