London School of Hygiene Tropical Medicine( LSHTM) has created new epidemiology models that used

( LSHTM), suggested in a Chatham House online briefing that the UK was seeing the disease become

Moderna’s new omicron Covid vaccine is five times better at boosting antibodies than its original jab, results show, raising hopes that it would be needed just once a year. The US firm said early clinical trials showed that the next-generation jab produced 9, 500 units of antibody in vaccinated individuals compared to a maximum of 1, 800 units with an original booster jab. The vaccine includes protection against both the original Wuhan strain and the omicron variant, but experts are hopeful that

Read ourprivacy notice Thanks for signing up to theBreaking News email{{# verifyErrors}}{{ message}}{{/ verifyErrors}}{{^ verifyErrors}} Something went wrong.... Globally in 2022, there were an estimated 249 million malaria cases and 608, 000 malaria deaths in 85 countries.... Children under five accounted for about 80 per cent of all malaria deaths in the African region. Overall, more than 30 countries on the continent have expressed interest in introducing the vaccine....

Switching off street lights after midnight reduces car theft by half, a government-funded study has found, as thieves are deterred by the darkness. The research, funded by the National Institute for Health Research( NIHR), found that part-night lighting( PNL) where street lamps are switched off from midnight to 5am, reduced thefts from cars from 12 per street, every month, to six per street.By contrast, there was a 1.5 times rise in vehicle crime on nearby streets where the lighting remained on

Self-isolation for people who test positive for Covid will be scrapped by next Spring, leaked documents suggest. The Government is winding-up its response to coronavirus as part of an exit strategy dubbed ‘Operation Rampdown’ according to official papers seen by the Mail on Sunday.In 160 pages of papers, Whitehall officials state that the virus will become endemic, and that the legal requirement for those who test positive for Covid to self-isolate for 10 days will not be renewed when legal powe

Britain may be “ better off ” with omicron than it was with the delta variant, thanks to the booster programme, Prof Chris Whitty has suggested. Giving evidence at the Health and Social Care Select Committee, the Chief Medical Officer for England said that vaccines appeared to be holding up well against omicron and said boosters may even be preventing transmissibility and infection. Prof Whitty said that under a worst case scenario, Britain would see similar figures to the January wave, when the

The Education Secretary appeared on Sky News' Trevor Phillips On Sunday programme where he said there are people in hospital with the new variant of the virus.... He also said the UK is in a" race" to get the booster jabs administered to adults" as quickly as possible". However, Mr Neil has questioned Mr Zahawi's claims with a controversial comment on Twitter. The former BBC journalist tweeted:" Nadhim Zahawi tells Trevor Phillips and Andrew Marr that there are now people with Omicron in UK hos

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A winter Covid wave is likely to be mild compared to last year even without" Plan B" measures, government scientists said as they warned that restrictions may not work as well as in previous waves. The latest modelling, released on Friday, suggests that unless there is a rapid increase in transmission rates, coupled with the repeated waning of protection from Covid jabs, hospital admissions will be nowhere near the highs of January. The Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling( SPI-M) te