Brazil’s ‘super-covid’ arrives in the US

Brazil’s ‘super-covid’ variant has arrived in the US with a first case in a Minnesota resident who recently returned from the hard-hit South American country.  The variant – known as P1 – is likely around 50 percent more infectious.  It comes after President Biden reinstated travel bans blocking people travelers from entering the US from … Read more

Brazil’s ‘super-covid’ arrives in the US

BREAKING NEWS: Brazil’s ‘super-covid’ arrives in the US: Minnesota resident becomes first American with highly-contagious variant that vaccines may not be able to protect against Minnesota health officials identified the first case of the Brazilian P1 variant in the US on Monday  The Twin Cities resident recently traveled to Brazil and returned this month  They … Read more

Kitten becomes first pet infected with Covid-19 in South Korea

Can animals catch Covid-19? The chance of your dog catching Covid-19 strain is very slim, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).  Professor James Wood, head of veterinary medicine at the University of Cambridge, said: ‘Despite millions of people having had Covid-19, the numbers of pets found to be ill or infected is still tiny.  … Read more

Matt Hancock ramps up Cabinet war over border crackdown

Matt Hancock ramps up Cabinet war over border crackdown saying UK needs ‘precautionary’ action against Covid variants that haven’t been detected yet – amid claims PM wants more ‘targeted’ approach PM favours targeted approach rather than making all air passengers quarantine Brazil and South Africa travellers will be met on arrival and escorted to hotels … Read more

Matt Hancock ramps up Cabinet war over border crackdown

Matt Hancock ramps up Cabinet war over border crackdown saying UK needs ‘precautionary’ action against Covid variants that haven’t been detected yet – amid claims PM wants more ‘targeted’ approach PM favours targeted approach rather than making all air passengers quarantine Brazil and South Africa travellers will be met on arrival and escorted to hotels … Read more

Boris Johnson will ‘force travellers from high-risk Covid countries to quarantine in hotels’

Boris Johnson will ‘force travellers from high-risk Covid countries to quarantine in hotels for ten days’ in decision to be taken on Monday PM favours targeted approach rather than making all air passengers quarantine Brazil and South Africa travellers will be met on arrival and escorted to hotels Mr Johnson expected to chair a Covid … Read more

South African Covid mutation poses ‘re-infection risk’ which could overpower vaccines, study finds

The South African coronavirus mutation poses a ‘significant re-infection risk’ and could overpower vaccines, new research has found. The strains discovered in Britain, South Africa and Brazil all have mutations of a spike protein, which enables the virus to latch onto human cells and therefore plays a key role in driving infections. But it is one … Read more

Arthritis drug hailed by Boris Johnson as a ‘life-saving’ Covid-19 treatment may be ineffective

An anti-inflammatory drug used to treat arthritis, which has been hailed by Boris Johnson as a ‘life-saving’ Covid-19 treatment, may be ineffective — and could even increase the patient’s risk of dying — according to a new study.   The latest research, published in the BMJ, found 11 of 65 people (17 per cent) treated with tocilizumab … Read more

Covid UK: Vallance says vaccines ‘should work against Kent mutation’

Sir Patrick Vallance today insisted that the current crop of Covid-19 vaccines should work against the coronavirus variant that emerged in Kent and has now become the dominant strain in England. Offering hope that Britain’s inoculation drive won’t be in vain, No10’s chief scientific adviser claimed evidence suggests the highly-infectious variant will be susceptible to … Read more

Alessandra Ambrosio puts her fabulous bikini body on display in tiny bathing suit

Alessandra Ambrosio puts her fabulous bikini body on display in tiny bathing suit as she brings the va va voom to jet skiing excursion in Brazil By Christine Rendon For Dailymail.com Published: 23:32 GMT, 19 January 2021 | Updated: 03:08 GMT, 20 January 2021 She is the ultimate bikini babe. And Alessandra Ambrosio was in … Read more