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Published: 1:53 PM April 26, 2021    A group of scientists has written an open letter calling for restrictions including social distancing and face masks to end by June 21. - Credit: Simon Parkin A UEA expert has said calls from a group of scientists and academics to end coronavirus restrictions are "wrong" and their public appeal is “not the best way forward”. In an open letter, the scientists said "a good society cannot be created by obsessive focus on a single cause of ill-health" and that Covid-19 "no longer requires exceptional measures of control in everyday life". The 22 signator...

INDIAN BUMMER UK cases of Indian Covid variant DOUBLE in a week to 160 raising fears it could delay roadmap Updated: Apr 18 2021, 6:39 ET Invalid Date, UK cases of the Indian Covid variant have reportedly DOUBLED in a week raising fears its emergence could delay the roadmap to recovery. Professor Paul Hunter, an epidemiologist at the University of East Anglia, discovered the number of confirmed cases had risen from 79 to 160. �� 3 Environment Secretary George Eustice says there is no evidence the Indian variant is able to 'get around' vaccinesCredit: Getty And it's feared - as only aro...

“There’s laboratory evidence that both of these are escape mutations,” he said. “Basically, applying what we know about other human coronaviruses would suggest that this is going to be even less controlled by vaccine. “But we don’t know that for certain at the moment.” According to PHE, the variant “includes a number of mutations, including E484Q, L452R, and P681R”. It said that “all appropriate public health interventions will be undertaken, including enhanced contact tracing,” after the variant is detected, with PHE and international pa...

© SYSTEM It was a pitched battle which was done and dusted in less time than half a football match. By the climax, thousands of men lay dead or wounded, while others were scattered to the wind, pursued by vengeful forces who hunted down their enemies and either slaughtered them or transported them to the West Indies. Even now, 275 years later, Culloden is a word which provokes strong emotions among the descendants of those who perished on a brooding, boggy moor, east of Inverness in the Scottish Highlands. Charles Edward Stuart, whose forces were vanquished, is still painted as a romantic fi...

The pausing of the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine shots has shone further light on the side effects experienced by a very small number of vaccinated people . As has been widely reported, six people – all women aged under 50 – among the 6.8 million given the Johnson & Johnson vaccine have suffered rare blood clots called cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST). In response, the US, European Union and South Africa have suspended the vaccine’s use while they investigate the side effects, which have caused one death and left another person in a critical condition. It echoes problems wi...