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More than 150 suspected outbreaks of acute respiratory infection have been recorded on construction sites since Public Health England (PHE) started collecting data last year, Construction News can reveal. Under the Freedom of Information Act, CN obtained the figures for all such reports to England’s health monitor from July 2020 until late February 2021. The data shows that construction sites have reported 152 cases of acute respiratory infection to health protection teams. A further six building contractor offices were subject to suspected outbreaks during the period, it can also be reve...

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UK reaches 41,385 cases in new daily record Save Save D-Day veteran Robert Sullivan, 98, is injected with the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine by Chief Nurse Pippa Nightingale Credit: Getty Images Europe  Follow Covid-19 cases recorded in a single day have risen above 40,000 for the first time, as Public Health England (PHE) warned "hospitals are at their most vulnerable". The Government said that, as of 9am on Monday, there had been a further 41,385 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK, while 357 people have died within 28 days of testing positive. Dr Yvonne Doyle, medical directo...

New coronavirus strain detected around the globe, from Gibraltar to Australia Scientists say variant may already be circulating in countries with less advanced detection methods than Britain Medical staff attend a mass beneath a cross outside the Tor Vergata hospital in Rome Credit: AFP Cases of the new coronavirus variant were detected around the world on Monday, from Italy and Gibraltar to Denmark and Australia. Calum Semple, professor of outbreak medicine at the University of Liverpool and a member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), said the new strain’s rate of inf...

Vanessa Chalmers, Digital Health Reporter 21 Dec 2020, 14:45 Updated: 21 Dec 2020, 15:31 THE new strain of Covid is in every corner of the UK already, maps reveal, as fears of its ability to spread at a rapid rate. Each nation has reported cases caused by the variant, which is 70 per cent more contagious than the "original" coronavirus type. ⚠️ Read our coronavirus live blog for the latest news & updates 2 How any people are estimated to have Covid caused by genes related to the new strain - ORF1ab and N genes - in each part of the UK over time What proportion of cases are caused by the ...