Llama blood could help save lives of seriously ill coronavirus patients
Professor Ray Owens, of Oxford University,who leads the nanobodies programme at the Franklin, said the researchers hope they can push the...
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Coronavirus can damage the heart, major study finds
Coronavirus can damage the heart, with more than half of hospitalised patients revealing abnormal scans, a major new study has...
Supplies of life-saving ventilators for seriously ill children depleted during the coronavirus crisis, charity warns
Supplies of life-saving ventilators for seriously ill children have been depleted during the coronavirus crisis, a leading charity has warned. ...
Coronavirus survives in the air for more than an hour, Sage expert says
"We do know that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid, can remain viable, can remain infectious, in these very small...
Coronavirus research projects on NHS patients fast tracked in 24 hours to deal with ‘unprecedented’ demand
Coronavirus-related NHS research projects have been fast-tracked by the regulator, with approval times slashed from 60 days to just 24...
Shop workers and taxi drivers to be tested amid fears over asymptomatic coronavirus spread
The announcement comes as the weekly statistics for the flagship Test and Trace service revealed that the proportion of close...
Coronavirus crisis reverses years of NHS waiting list progress as delays soar
Health policy think tanks are warning that, with hospitals set to remain hampered by the need to observe strict infection...
Sage sidelined as Government takes direct control of coronavirus response
They were told by officials that they had been "doing a lot of work", and they were reducing their sitting...
Could they give us more answers about how coronavirus spreads?
"The message is that protecting yourself involves physical distancing. It involves hand-washing and it involves, when you can't physically distance,...
NHS must not use coronavirus crisis as excuse to avoid tackling failings, MPs say
Sir Simon Stevens, head of the NHS since 2014, has been criticised for the decision to discharge thousands of hospital...
Fears of brain damage ‘epidemic’ as rise in inflammation is linked to coronavirus
The new study identified 43 suspected or confirmed coronavirus sufferers, aged between 16 and 85, who were treated at the...
Rishi Sunak drops plans to force employees to pay for coronavirus tests
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has dropped controversial plans to force workers to pay for coronavirus tests organised by their employers through...
Some deaths caused by coronavirus would have happened later this year, says ONS
Tuesday's ONS figures show that 8,979 deaths from all causes in England and Wales were registered in the week ending...
Government to stop publishing daily tally of people being tested for coronavirus
In the 24 hours to 9am on Sunday, a total of 164,849 tests were provided and the testing capacity for...
Coronavirus will lead to up to 35k extra cancer deaths, double previous estimates
Professor Pat Price, a clinical oncologist, said too much treatment was delayed, on the basis of NHS guidelines, in a...
NHS cleaners and porters were coronavirus ‘super-spreaders’ in hospitals, data reveals
According to one Whitehall source, however, frustration is growing among ministers over delays in collecting crucial data from individual NHS...
No coronavirus threat from cricket balls, new research concludes
A senior scientific adviser for the Government also said there was no scientific reason why cricket was a coronavirus risk....
Specialists warn of huge rise in child abuse during coronavirus lockdown
Dr Alison Steele, the officer for child protection at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, said: "This is...
Air travel is safest form of public transport during coronavirus crisis, says DfT adviser
"I think that planes are probably the safest form of public transport compared with the anarchy on the Tube with...
Antibody tests too unreliable to be used to judge coronavirus immunity levels, review finds
"These observations indicate important weaknesses in the evidence on Covid-19 serological tests, particularly those being marketed as point-of-care tests," the...
No need for more local lockdowns, say leaders of areas on coronavirus ‘watch list’
Rochdale Borough Council's chief executive, Steve Rumbelow, said: "We're not at all as bad as Leicester. "The one thing we...
‘Significant number’ of people may have some natural immunity to coronavirus
"So there is probably background T-cell immunity in people before they see the coronavirus, and that may be relevant that...
Fall in coronavirus cases during lockdown has delayed vaccine, Oxford professor says
"The country went into lockdown and now transmission has reduced a lot. We are vaccinating in multiple countries where there...
The areas that could face local coronavirus lockdowns within days
Leicester-style lockdowns in more UK cities and towns could be only days away. Government sources have told The Telegraph that...
Government must give local councils details of coronavirus spikes more quickly, says BMA
Meanwhile, leading health academic Professor Sir Chris Ham urged the Government to give local councils control over NHS Test and...
Fears Black Lives Matter protest led to rise in Birmingham coronavirus cases
"Our protest was on June 4 and we started to get a rise on June 14, 15 and 16, and...
Around a third of those with no coronavirus symptoms may have developed immunity, study shows
It comes as statistics revealed that one in seven children in Leicester have now tested positive for coronavirus, with levels...
