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Prof Alex Van Den Heever of Wits School Of Governance speaks to Ray White about the latest Covid-19 variant and the UK decision.

Eat less meat to prevent further pandemics, says expert Reducing how much meat we eat can help control evolution and transmission of diseases, says scientist File image of cattle on a farm (Image: Shared Content Unit) Get the latest email updates for Surrey with our FREE daily newsletterInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe here When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordance with ourPrivacy Notice. Thank you for subscribingWe have more newslettersShow meSee ourprivacy notice W...

Dutch scientists train bees to detect coronavirus Research could be used to help fight the pandemic in underdeveloped countries about 21 hours ago The scientists found that due to their highly developed sense of smell, the bees learned how to detect the virus after just minutes of training. Photograph: Getty Images   Researchers at a Dutch university have trained bees to detect coronavirus using a cheap and easily scalable model that could help fight the pandemic in underdeveloped countries. Like other diseases, such as cancer, coronavirus causes metabolic changes in the human body that g...

We should take confidence from the fact the advice on the AstraZeneca jab has moved with the data For younger people, where the risk of serious disease from Covid is low, it is right they should be offered a choice of vaccine 7 April 2021 • 8:30pm Credit: DPA If the presentations led by medical regulators in the UK and Europe on Wednesday do not build confidence in vaccines I’m not sure what will. Performing under pressure, they managed that rare feat: treating us as adults and communicating their all-but-matching messages with clarity. The key message is this: the benefits of taking th...

Vitamin D: The truth about an alleged Covid ‘cover-up’ By Rachel Schraer image copyrightGetty Images As Covid-19 swept the world, so did misinformation about how to treat it. But sometimes misinformation can develop even around ideas that have some truth to them - and that can be the most difficult kind to tackle. Why vitamin D? There are many treatments that have been suggested for Covid-19. Hydroxychloroquine, Ivermectin and vitamin D - all are, or were, being studied. Suggesting that a treatment could be effective and then finding it isn't upon further research, is all part of the norm...