Global Health Security
Coronavirus latest news: Snitch on your neighbours to police if they break ‘rule of six’, says minister
The Government has secured the supply of 60 million doses of a Covid-19 vaccine candidate being developed in France. Valneva SE, a specialist vaccine company, announced a “major parternship” with the UK worth around £433 million. The doses will be provided in the second half of 2021. There is an option for the Government to access …
4,200 referred to police for breaking quarantine rules, says Grant Shapps
Currently, the Foreign Office advises against all but essential travel to the Maldives, and it remains off the UK’s quarantine-exempt list – despite the country having had consistently low infection rates, with only 28 recorded deaths. But, according to the Managing Director of MaldiMaves Marketing and Public Relations Corporation (MMPRC), talks are taking place at …
Birmingham police break up more than 70 illegal parties as city tries to avoid lockdown
Coronavirus in France is circulating four times more among people under the age of 40 than those over 65, France’s health minister said. But he warned that contamination was on the rise among the elderly and more vulnerable too. “We’re in a risky situation,” Olivier Veran said. Like President Emmanuel Macron, Mr Veran ruled out the need …
A fifth of Britons breaking lockdown as Dominic Cummings effect takes its toll
Brazil surpassed 30,000 deaths from coronavirus on Tuesday as the disease continued to rip through South America’s worst-hit country. Figures released by the health ministry showed a new record of 1,262 deaths in the previous 24 hours, as well as 28,936 new infections. The figures came as some Brazilian states began to emerge from weeks of economically …
Cummings hits back over rule break claiming ‘who cares about good looks’
There are now more than 100,000 confirmed coronavirus cases in Africa, with a case in every country on the continent, the World Health Organization has confirmed. But cases and mortality rates have not risen at the same speed as they have in other regions of the world, with just 3,100 confirmed deaths on the continent. When confirmed …
People breaking the rules are ‘risking lives’ says Hancock, as UK deaths hit 4,934
Singapore reported 120 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, by far its highest daily rise, and quarantined nearly 20,000 migrant workers in their dormitories. Of Sunday’s new cases, 116 were locally transmitted and many were linked to two dormitories that house migrant workers, who will now have to stay in their rooms for 14 days. The …
Mission impossible? Creator of world’s first ‘bleeding’ vegan burger predicts meat-free world by 2035
Dr Brown said that his burger had a fraction of the environmental impact of meat – using up fewer resources such as water and land and with lower greenhouse gas emissions associated with its production. The burger also has the same nutritional value as meat, in terms of protein, iron and micronutrients – but is much healthier, …
