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Christopher Furlong/Getty Images Contact tracing delays affected eight local authorities in England in April and May In parts of England, delays in tracing those who had contact with people who tested positive for the coronavirus may have contributed to the spread of the B.1.617.2 variant of the virus, according to local public health reports.  Advertisement The reports, seen by the BBC, suggest that failures in England’s NHS Test and Trace system in April and May affected eight local authorities in England, including Blackburn with Darwen, which has seen a recent surge in cases linked to ...

Valery SharifulinTASS via Getty Images Latest coronavirus news as of 5pm on 5 May The Seychelles reintroduces covid-19 restrictions despite high levels of vaccination Restrictions to curb the spread of covid-19 have been reintroduced in the Seychelles due to rising cases, despite over 60 per cent of the population having been fully vaccinated. There are about 1000 active cases in the Indian Ocean archipelago, which has a population of 100,000. A third of the cases involve people who have had two vaccine doses, according to the country’s news agency. Schools have been ordered to close, shops...

Amal KS/Hindustan Times/Shutterstock Latest coronavirus news as of 4.30pm on 22 April The 314,835 new cases reported by India on Thursday is the highest daily rate ever in any country India reported 314,835 new coronavirus cases on Thursday, the highest daily number reported by any country since the pandemic began. According to the New York Times, the previous record was 300,669, reported by the US on 8 January. The true number of cases could be 20 to 30 times higher than the reported figures, meaning up to 9 million people are being infected in India every day. Last week, Gautam Menon at As...

OLI SCARFF/AFP via Getty Images Latest coronavirus news as of 5pm on 21 April Research shows vaccines are working well at preventing hospital admissions in UK  Further encouraging results have emerged on the effectiveness of the coronavirus vaccines used in the UK. Only 32 people have been admitted to hospital with covid-19 more than three weeks after receiving at least one dose of either the Pfizer/BioNTech or Oxford/AstraZeneca jabs, a study has found. The research, which looked at more than 74,000 hospital admissions between September and early March, found that nearly 2000 of these peopl...