Covid-19
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Lifting lockdown: How much should we listen to the views of business?
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One year on from when lockdowns began in the west, specialists reflect on how epidemiologists and businesses have responded to the crisis.
UK COVID-19 Data: 3 March 2021.
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315 deaths reported due to Covid-19 in the past 24 hours, and very sadly a total of 14,277 people have now lost their lives because of the coronavirus in the past 28 days – on average that is 510 deaths each day, Dr Joe Pajak writes.
UK COVID-19 Data: 2 March 2021.
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343 people sadly lost their lives because of Covid-19 in the past 24 hours, and a total of 15,284 people have now lost their lives because of the coronavirus in the past 28 days – on average that is 546 deaths each day, Dr Joe Pajak writes.
‘We sink or we swim together’: 5 things you need to know about COVAX.
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COVAX has been trending in stories about the COVID-19 pandemic in recent days, particularly in relation to the shipment of vaccines to Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire, the first to arrive in Africa. Here’s a recap of what COVAX is, and why it is so important.
Can vaccinated people still spread the coronavirus?
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You’ve been vaccinated; can you now safely see your friends and family? New research hints that vaccinated people may be less likely to transmit the coronavirus, but they are not 100% in the clear.
A few bits of silver lining to cheer us all up.
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I am often told my Twitter timeline is too negative. So, happy Monday everyone, and here are some genuine positives from the last year of the COVID pandemic.
I was the Australian doctor on the WHO’s COVID-19 mission to China. Here’s what we found about the origins of the coronavirus.
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Much has been said of the politics surrounding the mission to investigate the viral origins of COVID-19. So it is easy to forget that behind these investigations are real people.