Pioneering study finds generational link between smoking and body fat
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteWomen and girls whose grandfathers or great-grandfathers began smoking at an early age tend to have more body fat Read More
New form of Omicron variant under investigation, says UKHSA
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteA new form of Omicron named BA.2 has been deemed a “variant under investigation”, the UK Health Security Agency has said. Read More
Europe urged to start living with Covid amid Omicron surge, but not everyone is convinced
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteAt the start of the pandemic, Spaniards were forced to comply with one of Europe’s strictest lockdowns, spending months cooped up indoors…
‘Care hotel’ set up in Norwich to relieve ‘unprecedented’ pressure on hospitals
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteNorfolk has become the latest area in England to start transferring patients to a hotel in order to free up hospital beds….
Omicron 'sub-lineage' is variant under investigation but case numbers low, UKHSA says
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe UK Health Security Agency has designated the Omicron variant sub-lineage, known as BA.2, as a variant under investigation – with current…
Africa will only accept Covid 19 vaccines with longer shelf life - Africa CDC
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteAfrica’s top public health organisations have called for donated COVID-19 vaccines to come with a shelf life of at least three to…
Africa's Covid-19 death rate highest in the world - WHO
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteAfrica has the highest rate of people killed by Covid-19 in the world so far, the World Health Organisation warns. Read More
Covid-19: Many Rwandans flee to DRC to "escape" vaccination
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteAround 100 Rwandans have arrived in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in recent days claiming to be fleeing the Covid-19 vaccination,…
Covid-19 cases in Africa fall by 20% - WHO
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe weekly number of Covid-19 cases in Africa has “dropped considerably” and the number of deaths has also fallen, for the first…
Rates of short-sightedness across the UK skyrocketed by nearly 50% in three decades, study finds
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Rates of short-sightedness across the UK rose by nearly 50 per cent within three decades, researchers revealed today. Read More