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Britain's chief medical officer has inspired thousands more school leavers to apply for careers in medicine during the pandemic, a new report says. A surge dubbed the 'Chris Whitty effect' saw a record-breaking number of teenagers apply for university courses in the medical field for 2021 entry. Applicant numbers jumped by a fifth compared to the previous year for medicine and a quarter for nursing, data from the Medical Schools Council (MSC) and UCAS shows.  This will drive up competition for limited places, despite Matt Hancock last year pledging to lift the cap on medical school spaces a...

A LEADING microbiologist has raised doubts over plans to abolish Covid-19 restrictions in England next month. He warned today that there could be a “huge number of cases" as the Indian variant of coronavirus surges.  Professor Paul Hunter of the University of East Anglia said that the date of June 21 for the end of the current lockdown could be in doubt if the Indian variant leads to an increase in cases among the elderly and more people needing hospital care. Speaking on BBC Radio 4, Prof Hunter said that surge vaccination will “possibly” work, but it is “not an easy question eithe...

Professor Paul Hunter, from the University of East Anglia. Picture: UEA - Credit: UEA A leading viral disease expert at the University of East Anglia has raised doubts over coronavirus restrictions fully easing this June.  Professor Paul Hunter, from the University of East Anglia's Norwich Medical School said the Indian variant of the virus has caused big concerns over whether June 21 is still achievable as the final step of the government's roadmap. B16172 was last week designated as a "variant of concern" by experts from Public Health England after small clusters of cases were detected ac...

PEOPLE who decline a vaccine linked to rare blood clots “have a real risk of dying from Covid”, an expert has warned.It comes after a study has fo

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. �� 4 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 f...