As the Euros reach full time, and the Common reverts to being Wimbledon’s most famous thing, the Tokyo Olympics get set to dominate sport for weeks to come.
Just when we thought things were under control. Colin Dang wonders if we should be worried. Suddenly, there are as many different strains of the virus as vaccines to combat it.
While most of us appreciated the value of face coverings during the height of the pandemic, the position is less clear as the vaccination roll out gathers pace
At the moment only people with any of the ‘classic three’ symptoms can get an NHS PCR swab test to confirm Covid infection
Over 12 million people in the UK have already had their first dose of either the Oxford-AstraZeneca or Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. Globally the figure of vaccinations stands at over 128 million people at the time of writing, which is an amazing feat in such a short space of time.
We’ve all heard it mentioned in the news in the briefings by the government and their scientific advisors, but what actually is the reproduction (R) number? Well, quite simply, it’s the average number of secondary infections produced by a single infected person.
