Covid lockdown news - live: UK cases highest since February as Ferguson warns of ‘substantial third wave’
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Reading Time: < 1 minute The UK has reported another 7,540 coronavirus cases, the highest number since late February. Read More
Covid cases jump by 25pc across Africa, stoking fears continent is unprepared for ‘third wave’
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Coronavirus cases across Africa have surged by 25 per cent over the last week, sparking fears that the continent of 1.3 billion…
Iron deficiency anaemia in early pregnancy raises risk of heart defects – study
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Severe iron deficiency and anaemia during early pregnancy may greatly increase the risk of the child having heart defects, new research suggests….
Cancer patients more likely to die of Covid-19
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Reading Time: < 1 minute People with an active cancer diagnoses are more likely to die from COCVID-19 than people who have either recovered from the disease,…
People from ethnically diverse backgrounds now make up highest proportion of ICU patients since pandemic began
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Reading Time: < 1 minute People living in the most deprived areas of the country have also seen a larger increase in intensive care unit (ICU) admissions…
Woman dies after security guard pretending to be doctor performs surgery at Pakistan hospital
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Reading Time: < 1 minute An elderly woman has died after a family mistakenly hired a former security guard to perform surgery on her in one of…
'This IS INSANE': Africa desperately short of COVID vaccine
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Reading Time: < 1 minute In the global race to vaccinate people against COVID-19, Africa is tragically at the back of the pack. Read More
Doctors in India claim Covid variant is causing gangrene and deafness
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Indian doctors claim the new Covid variant is giving people gangrene and hearing loss that older strains of the virus didn’t. Read…
Good Covid news: Fewer than 1,000 infected patients are in hospital
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Covid hospital admissions are still only a fraction of what they were at the peak of the second wave in January, according…
Covid deaths hit lowest levels since BEFORE pandemic took off
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Weekly coronavirus deaths in England and Wales at the end of May fell to their lowest levels since before the first lockdown…