Nov 12, 2020
Asked whether the “kink” in the case rate could have been caused by “people rushing to the pub” ahead of a lockdown, Steven Riley, professor of infectious disease dynamics at Imperial, said: “Yes it could be, partly. “Clearly, we’ve thought a lot about this a lot. There was a lot happening over that period. There […]
Nov 8, 2020
The Department for Health and Social Care estimates that between 300 and 500 people have arrived in the UK from Denmark in the last 14 days. Denmark was the first to record the new mutation, described as the “cluster five variant” by the World Health...
Nov 8, 2020
Lower levels of movement, and consequently social mixing, may help explain why hospitals in the capital have so far escaped a major surge of cases in the second wave. Hospitalisations in London are at less than 150 per 100,000 people, compared to around 400 per...
Nov 2, 2020
“Still, anyone with cancer or stroke or heart disease symptoms should absolutely continue to seek help from the NHS, because these urgent services are the priority right now. The sooner the country bands together and helps get this latest outbreak under control, the...
Oct 30, 2020
New figures released by the ONS also put the number of daily infections far lower than Imperial’s figures. The ONS estimates that 568,100 people are currently infected, with 51,900 new cases each day – equating to around one in 100 people, up from 1 in 130...
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