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Contact-tracing app will only be good against coronavirus if 80 PER CENT of smartphone owners use it

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An NHS contact-tracing app would only completely stop the spread of coronavirus if 80 per cent of current smartphone owners use it, researchers have warned. The team from the University of Oxford simulated how COVID-19 might spread in order to support the development of contact-tracing apps across Europe. However, a previous survey of potential contact-tracing … Read more

Contact-tracing app will only be good against coronavirus if 80 PER CENT of smartphone owners use it

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An NHS contact-tracing app would only completely stop the spread of coronavirus if 80 per cent of current smartphone owners use it, researchers have warned. The team from the University of Oxford simulated how COVID-19 might spread in order to support the development of contact-tracing apps across Europe. However, a previous survey of potential contact-tracing … Read more

Lombardy will start 20,000 antibody tests a day from Tuesday to detect coronavirus immunity

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The Italian region of Lombardy says it will start performing 20,000 coronavirus immunity tests per day from next Tuesday.  Officials say the ‘reliable’ tests have been developed at a research hospital near Milan and will start being offered to health workers next week.  The government of the hard-hit region says the tests will ‘certify immunity … Read more

Einstein was right: Star orbiting the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole behaves as he predicted

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A star orbiting the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy does so in a way that proves physicist Albert Einstein right – again. The star, called S2, orbits Sagittarius A* in a rosette shape, blipping out from the elliptical orbit at random points – an idea predicted by Einstein over … Read more

Einstein was right: Star orbiting the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole behaves as he predicted

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A star orbiting the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy does so in a way that proves physicist Albert Einstein right – again. The star, called S2, orbits Sagittarius A* in a rosette shape, blipping out from the elliptical orbit at random points – an idea predicted by Einstein over … Read more

Katherine Jenkins talks about her NHS Charity duet We’ll Meet Again with Dame Vera Lynn

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Katherine Jenkins shares delight as NHS Charity duet We’ll Meet Again with Dame Vera Lynn edges close to number one The song was originally sung by the now 103-year old ‘forces sweetheart’ as soldiers left their families to fight Nazi Germany in 1939  All proceeds from the new collaboration will go to National Health Service … Read more

Germany sees its highest number of coronavirus deaths for the second day in a row at 315

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Germany has suffered the deadliest day of its coronavirus crisis so far as the rate of new infections also accelerated.  The country announced 315 new deaths from the virus Thursday, bringing its total from 3,254 to 3,569. The figure is higher than the 285 reported Wednesday, which was the previous highest daily total.  The number … Read more

Second World War veteran and his wife of 78 years who contracted coronavirus die on the same day

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A couple married almost eight decades died within hours of each other Friday after the husband, a World War Two veteran, made the decision to remain with his wife despite her coronavirus diagnosis. Massachusetts couple David and Muriel Cohen shared a room in their nursing home and the family chose to keep them together even … Read more

Twitter goes wild for Unorthodox star Amit Rahav as Yanky Shapiro

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Twitter goes wild for Unorthodox star Amit Rahav, 24, after shooting to fame as Esty’s troubled husband Yanky Shapiro in Netflix series WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS   By Rebecca Davison for MailOnline Published: 08:54 BST, 15 April 2020 | Updated: 13:06 BST, 15 April 2020 Twitter has gone wild for rising star Amit Rahav after he shot … Read more