‘She’s the woman we need in every household!’ Georgia Fairweather’s mother wins Married At First Sight viewers over with her sage advice and striking fashion sense By Abi Moustafa For Daily Mail Australia Published: 15:54 BST, 13 April 2021 | Updated: 15:54 BST, 13 April 2021 On Tuesday night’s episode of Married At First Sight, … Read more
England shouldn’t be hit by a third wave of coronavirus this summer, Government advisers have admitted. Bleak modelling submitted to ministers warned the country could face a brutal third wave when restrictions are lifted on June 21. But senior experts now believe any resurgence of Covid is more likely in the autumn, it was claimed … Read more
Close contacts of Covid cases could be released from self-isolation five days early, under a scheme being drawn up by Government scientists. Papers submitted to SAGE on March 3 suggest the 10-day mandatory quarantine period could be cut in half if people are tested daily with lateral flow kits. They would need to get a … Read more
Dr Mike Tildesley, from the University of Warwick team that correctly predicted the UK’s second wave, said he was ‘really pleasantly surprised’ that reopening schools did not cause a spike in infections Britain’s roadmap out of lockdown could be sped up because the coronavirus vaccines are working so well, according to one of the Government … Read more
SAGE‘s doomsday models which predicted more than a thousand coronavirus deaths at the peak of a third wave later in the year were based on ‘very pessimistic assumptions’, scientists warned today. Independent experts told MailOnline the data used by the Government’s scientific advisers ‘didn’t match’ how well the vaccine rollout is going and played down … Read more
Britain is ‘highly likely’ to suffer a third wave of Covid infections and deaths once all lockdown restrictions are lifted in the summer, Government scientists warned last night. In a gloomy set of scenarios, the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) said that hospital admissions could once again hit the levels seen in January. The … Read more
Professor Neil Ferguson warned the South African strain had taken root in Europe Professor Neil Ferguson today called for tighter border controls with Europe to keep out the dangerous South African of coronavirus amid fears it could undermine Britain’s vaccine roll-out. The SAGE adviser – dubbed ‘Professor Lockdown‘ because his gloomy modelling of the first … Read more
A document presented to SAGE called for an increase in the ‘perceived threat’ of Covid using ‘hard-hitting emotional messages’, reports claim today. Psychologists have accused Downing Street of using ‘covert psychological strategies’ to emphasise the threat from Covid-19 without contextualising the risks, the Telegraph reported. It was said this created ‘a state of heightened anxiety’, … Read more
England’s coronavirus R rate has not changed since last week, No10’s scientific advisers claimed today. SAGE estimated the figure – the average number of people each infected person passes the virus on to – was still between 0.8 and one but may be as high as one in every region because cases are ‘levelling off’. Advisers … Read more
Rishi Sunak confirms he helped block calls for ‘circuit breaker’ lockdown last year after wave of criticism for rejecting Sage advice Ministers faced criticism after rejecting advice from the Sage advisory group Rishi Sunak insisted there ‘wasn’t a clear-cut case’ for shutting down economy Scientists believed a two-three week lockdown could reverse a surge in … Read more