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Vanessa Chalmers, Digital Health Reporter Apr 15 2021, 12:39 ET Updated: Apr 15 2021, 14:05 ET A NEW Covid variant from India has been detected in the UK, health officials have announced. A total of 77 confirmed cases of the strain have been identified as of April 14. �� 3 Seventy-three cases are in England and four are in Wales. The variant has been labelled as “under investigation” along with six others in the UK. There are also four “variants of concern” that are the most alarming, including from South Africa and Brazil. No details were given about how the Indian variant, offic...

Vaccination efforts are working, if the latest data is anything to go by. Every week, Public Health England (PHE) releases a report, which details information like where the virus is spreading and among which age groups. It also includes data on seropositivity in the population in England – and it’s this that’s showing positive signs. A person is ‘seropositive’ when specific Covid-19 antibodies, which help the immune system fight the virus, show in their blood. Data suggests there’s been a “large rise” in seropositivity in the first four weeks of 2021, increasing from 12.1% of...

LOCKDOWN could 'realistically' end in the late spring as successful coronavirus vaccination efforts reduce the pressure on the NHS.

The “new normal” brought about by the coronavirus pandemic is likely to be here for quite some time, with a change not likely until well into 2022, a leading scientist has said. Professor Helen Rees, who is a member of the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) emergency committee for Covid-19, said measures such as wearing face masks and social distancing will have to continue. Her comments are the latest in a line of views shared by experts about when a sense of normality is likely to return. Prof Rees, who is from South Africa but has family in Wales, told BBC Wales Live: “I’m afraid ...

By Press Association 2021 An almost deserted Millennium Bridge near St Paul’s Cathedral in central London during England’s third national lockdown Tory lockdown-sceptics have expressed worry that the Government is shifting the goalposts on reopening society as they called for a complete removal of restrictions by the end of May. The Prime Minister told a Downing Street briefing that the level of coronavirus infections in the country was still “forbiddingly high” and that it was too soon to relax current restrictions. But Ma...