People in the UK could be offered pills to treat Covid at home from autumn this year thanks to a new antivirals taskforce being set up by No10. Boris Johnson today said he will assemble a team of scientists to find ways for people to recover from the virus without going into hospital because the … Read more
WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THE INDIA VARIANT? Real name: B.1.617 When and where was it discovered? The variant was first reported by the Indian government in late March. But the first cases appear to date back to October 2020. It has been detected in 21 countries as of April 19, Public Health England bosses say. … Read more
India‘s health system is collapsing under the fastest spreading coronavirus surge since the pandemic started. Another 259,170 cases were recorded on Tuesday, the world’s highest daily rate, and 1,761 deaths, the country’s highest ever daily toll, after a new variant of Covid emerged which scientists fear could partly evade vaccines. The British government added the country to … Read more
An arm of the United Nations today accused the UK Government‘s racial disparities commission of trying to ‘rationalise’ and ‘normalise’ white supremacy in its ‘reprehensible’ report on race relations in Britain by ‘repackaging racist tropes and stereotypes into fact’. A group of human rights experts have claimed that the controversial report presented by the Commission on … Read more
Nicola Sturgeon today lashed out at Boris Johnson‘s plan for a ‘traffic light’ system for travel from May 17 – warning ‘lax’ rules could allow variants to spread. The Scottish First Minister said allowing people to go abroad for non-essential reasons ‘poses a risk’ because it is impossible to know where a dangerous mutant strain … Read more
Priti Patel approves extradition of billionaire diamond tycoon Nirav Modi to India to face trial over £1.3bn fraud Diamond tycoon Nirav Modi will be extradited to India after Home Office sign-off Modi, 50, was arrested in March 2019, and has been held in Wandsworth prison Punjab National Bank alleges that he and his uncle have committed … Read more
Priti Patel approves extradition of billionaire diamond tycoon Nirav Modi to India to face trial over £1.3bn fraud Diamond tycoon Nirav Modi will be extradited to India after Home Office sign-off Modi, 50, was arrested in March 2019, and has been held in Wandsworth prison Punjab National Bank alleges that he and his uncle have committed … Read more
Britain’s roadmap from coronavirus lockdown could be derailed by the emergence of a new Covid mutation from India, a leading scientist has today warned. The mutant strain, which has already been found in the UK, is thought to be the cause of a huge second wave of infections across the south-Asian nation. The country, of … Read more
Pregnant women in Britain should be offered Pfizer or Moderna‘s coronavirus vaccine, UK medical bosses concluded today. Number 10‘s vaccine advisory panel said real-world data from the rollout in the US had shown the two American jabs were safe for expectant mothers. The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) is now encouraging all pregnant … Read more
India is not included on the UK’s travel red list even though 77 cases of a variant that emerged there and is linked to a surging outbreak have been found in Britain. Public Health England announced the dozens of new cases yesterday and said the strain was under investigation ‘due to sustained international transmission’. It … Read more