The return of fans to sporting events is a roaring success as none of the hundreds of fans watching the World Snooker Championship every day have tested positive for Covid-19, it was revealed today. The pilot scheme, which has seen 300 people
Fears of a new outbreak as SEVEN travellers on the same floor of a Sydney quarantine hotel test positive to identical strain of coronavirus Seven travellers have tested positive to same strain of coronavirus in Sydney Guests were being quarantined on 12th floor of
Number 10 has today hit back at claims controversial rapid lateral flow coronavirus tests are dangerously unreliable. The Prime Minister’s official spokesman said the kits, which give a result in under half an hour, ‘have been tested rigorously and we are confident
As few as two per cent of positive Covid lateral flow test results taken in low prevalence areas are accurate, an adviser to Matt Hancock has warned. In emails, leaked to the Guardian, senior strategist Ben Dyson is said to have warned
Passengers are using forged GP notes to avoid the cost of a Covid test when they return from abroad, border officers say Border guards seeing ‘upwards of 100’ fraudulent Covid test certificates a day The fake letters are designed to help passengers
Fewer Covid-infected Britons are sticking to 10-day self-isolation rules in the face of a successful vaccine roll-out, a survey suggests. The Office for National Statistics found 82 per cent of those questioned who tested positive for the virus followed the mandatory quarantine
The prime minister boldly claimed that freeing ourselves from the EU would allow “Global Britain” to flourish. But some in Scotland and Wales have exploited the historic 2016 referendum to try and break up the 300-year-old union. And with teething issues surrounding
Failure to launch: US Air Force’s much-hyped hypersonic live-fire missile test abandoned after B52 bomber ‘unable to complete its launch sequence’ The US Air Force’s first hypersonic AGM-183A Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon had been hotly anticipated But the test was abandoned after
More than HALF of people who test positive for Covid have no symptoms – but fatigue is still most common sign, official data shows Office for National Statistics found 53 per cent suffered no symptoms Fatigue, headache and cough were the most
Health Secretary Matt Hancock is understood to be planning to instruct the anti-virals team of medical experts to prioritise research and development of the potentially life-saving drug. Current drugs are given only when a patient suffers serious symptoms. Whitehall insiders say the