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I will write this to best of my knowledge. The figures are in on the ONS data. The figures are down for daily cases. Figures are down only a bit for death toll. I will put up the figures up on my Twitter page @Mantego23 ....

Covid-19 news: Rise in infections in England may be slowing....

The latest covid news updated every day including covid cases, the latest news, features and interviews from New Scientist and essential information about the covid-19......

Coronavirus cases are still on the rise in England but this trend may be slowing.......

Infections in England continue to rise but the rate of increase may be slowing down, according to preliminary results from Imperial College London’s REACT-1 study. Using random swab testing, the researchers tracked levels of the coronavirus within communities in England and found that about one in 181 ppl had the virus between 18 and 26 September, an increase from one in 769 between August 22nd and September 7th. However, the estimated R number for England – the number of cases each case infects – had fallen from 1.7 to around 1.1, suggesting the rate at which cases are rising is slowing. There is uncertainty around this figure, which could lie anywhere between about 0.7 and 1.5. The most recent results are based on an analysis of swabs from 80,000 ppl.

The study also found a rise in covid cases across all age groups. Cases were also twice as high among ppl of black and Asian ethnicities, compared to white ppl – a trend seen in previous results from REACT-1. The recent rise in cases among ppl older than 65 is worrying at the University of Leicester in a statement. This may continue into the more vulnerable elderly population if we do not act to curb the spread of this virus now....

The latest figures from NHS Test and Trace show that the number of ppl who tested positive for the covid in England increased by 61 per cent to 31,373 in the week ending September 23rd compared to the previous week. The system reached about 72 per cent of the contacts of ppl diagnosed with the virus, which is higher than the approximately 60 per cent reached the previous week but still below the level of 80 per cent or more recommended by the government’s scientific advisors.

Other coronavirus news

A vaccine against the Covid on its own will not be enough to curb the spread of the virus, and social-distancing measures are likely to be needed for some time, according to a report by a multidisciplinary group of researchers convened by the Royal Society in the UK. Even if a future vaccine is effective it is very unlikely that we will be able to get back completely to normal, that challenges to the success of a future vaccine include potential limitations in how well the vaccine works, hurdles in manufacturing and storage, and issues with public trust.....

India has announced further easing of its Covid restrictions today, despite continued rises in daily new cases. The government said it will allow states to reopen cinemas, multiplexes and exhibition centres with 50 per cent capacity only from October 15th.....

The worldwide death toll has passed 1 million. The number of confirmed cases is more than 34 million, according to Johns Hopkins University, though the true number of cases will be much higher......

Latest on Covid from New Scientist.....

How your computer can help: Thanks to the Folding@home project, millions of ppl are helping scientists understand the structure of proteins in the new Covid, finds Layal Liverpool.....

It is assessing the progress of different vaccine candidates and potential drug treatments for covid-19, and ranking them for effectiveness and safety.

Humans of COVID-19 is a project highlighting the experiences of key workers on the frontline in the fight against Covid in the UK, through social media.

Covid, Explained on Netflix is a short documentary series examining the on-going Covid pandemic, the efforts to fight it and ways to manage its mental health toll.

New Scientist Weekly features updates and analysis on the latest developments in the covid-19 pandemic. Our podcast sees expert journalists from the magazine discuss the biggest science stories to hit the headlines each week – from technology and space, to health and the environment...........

Local lockdown restrictions for Liverpool Warrington Hartlepool and Middlesbrough, will not be allowed to mix with other households inside of outside from Saturday. It was confirmed today!


The Rules of Contagion is about the new science of contagion and the surprising ways it shapes our lives and behaviour. The author, Adam Kucharski, is an epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK, and in the book he examines how diseases spread and why they stop.

All this information, I have written to the best of my knowledge and knowing ppl within the medical sector, as helped me put out the accurate updates on Twitter, and posting to here too with word for word......

UK parliament will be able to vote wherever possible on new Covid regulations affecting England or the UK as a whole, before they come into force, UK health minister told parliament today. They are sure that no member of this House would want to limit the governments ability to take emergency action, in the national interest as they did in March, referring to the UKs nation-wide lockdown imposed on March 23rd.

The UKs prime minister today defended the recent introduction of new local lockdowns across the UK. Frankly, when they have the virus going up in the way it is now in some parts of the country, you have to take strong local action.

Yesterday, the UK recorded its highest number of daily new Covid cases since the start of the pandemic, with 7143 new cases confirmed within 24 hours. and yesterday, 7108 cases were recorded across the country. Several other European countries have seen recent record daily rises in cases, including the Netherlands and Romania today, although this may be due in part to more ppl being tested. Yesterday, the UK also saw its highest daily death toll since 1 July, with 71 deaths from covid-19 recorded. In Scotland, seven deaths from covid-19 were recorded today, the nations highest daily toll since June 17th.

Other Covid news....

A coronavirus vaccine candidate being developed by pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and BioNTech has been found to induce an immune response in a trial including 60 volunteers aged 18 to 55. Most of the volunteers produced Covid-specific antibodies and T-cells, according to results published today in the journal Nature. The vaccine candidate contains messenger RNA, which is used to make fragments of Covid protein that the bodys immune system can recognise and respond to. The UK has already secured 30 million doses of the vaccine candidate, in addition to vaccine candidates from several other companies, including 100 million doses of a candidate being developed by AstraZeneca in partnership with the University of Oxford.

Germanys chancellor Merkel today said she wanted to avoid another national lockdown at all costs. Following a rise in cases, Merkel and the leaders of Germanys 16 states today agreed to tighten restrictions on the size of gatherings, particularly in Covid hotspots. Ppl in areas with a case rate of 35 per 100,000 ppl or higher will have to limit private gatherings to 25 ppl, and those in areas with a case rate of 50 per 100,000 ppl or above will need to cap private gatherings at 10 ppl. They want to act regionally, specifically and purposefully, rather than shutting down the whole country again – this must be prevented at all costs.

US president and democratic challenger over the covid pandemic during the countrys first presidential debate yesterday. The President claimed the US was weeks away from a vaccine against the virus, contradicting health officials, including , the director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Biden criticised The US President record on covid-19, saying 200,000 ppl have died on his watch.......

Today, Scotlands 1st minister announced a new grant of £500 for ppl on low incomes who are asked to self-isolate. The grant will aim to help those who would lose income if they stayed at home.....

Restrictions in Bolton aligned with the rest of Greater Manchester allowing pubs to reopen on October 3rd....

Poland and Turkey as been added to the quarantined list as of 4am Saturday October 3rd...This is getting a bit depressing, but it is what it is, its beyond our control....

I hope u all understand the jargon, I mentioned in this post up....

Well all stay safe look out for todays figures on my Twitter tomorrow on @Mantego23 .....

The R rate as dropped from 1.7 to 1.1......




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