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TALK OF THE TOWN: Prince Harry gets the latest party gossip from Henrietta Worthington – lawyer with one of London’s wokest legal firms By Charlotte Griffiths for The Mail on Sunday Published: 00:20 BST, 4 April 2021 | Updated: 02:18 BST, 4 April 2021 He’s been pictured enjoying the Californian sunshine and surf but I … Read more
Pakistan, Bangladesh, Philippines and Kenya are put on the travel ‘red list’ sparking fears thousands will dash to the UK before they are forced to quarantine in a hotel Travellers will be banned from these countries unless they are returning home Crackdown is aimed at reducing the risk of variants such as South Africa strain … Read more
Pakistan and Bangladesh are put on the travel ‘red list’ sparking fears thousands of Brits abroad will scramble home as UK variant is blamed for countries’ third spike Travellers will be banned from these countries unless they are returning home Crackdown is aimed at reducing the risk of variants such as South Africa strain More … Read more
Scientists say they have created a new, portable test that can detect coronavirus in just minutes and even identify if it is a highly infectious variant. Developed by the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, in La Jolla, California, the test is called NIRVANA (nanopore sequencing of isothermal rapid viral amplification for near real-time analysis). The … Read more
Scientists say they have created a new, portable test that can detect coronavirus in just minutes and even identify if it is a highly infectious variant. Developed by the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, in La Jolla, California, the test is called NIRVANA (nanopore sequencing of isothermal rapid viral amplification for near real-time analysis). The … Read more
Pfizer’s Covid vaccine still works against the South African and Brazilian variants of the virus, studies suggested today. The jab prevented 100 per cent of infections in a study run by Pfizer in South Africa and UK lab tests on the P1 Brazilian strain of the virus found it worked against that. Scientists had been … Read more
Britons are pushing back foreign holiday plans for a long-haul ‘blow out’ in 2022 as they go on staycations this year instead – with UK accommodation already 85 per cent full for this summer, travel experts revealed today. Others are focusing on this Christmas and New Year for a multi-generational big family holiday abroad – … Read more
New York health officials are worried that some coronavirus variants will reinfect people who have had COVID-19 before. At a press conference on Tuesday, Dr Dave Chokshi, the city’s health commissioner, said that reinfection appears to be rare. However, he noted that the coronavirus variants that were first identified in South Africa and Brazil have … Read more
The Great Oxidation Event that saw oxygen levels surge and life flourish on Earth happened 100 million years later than previously thoughts, researchers claim. University of Leeds experts analysed rocks from South Africa that were deposited in the ocean at the time of the Great Oxidation Event more than two billion years ago. This event … Read more
A British expat has discovered hundreds of stranded ‘evil-eyed’ pufferfish washed up on a beach in South Africa. The ‘evil-eyed’ pufferfish are each armed with a poison more deadly than cyanide. Tess Gridley, a scientist from Sheffield, encountered the mass stranding at Muizenberg Beach in Cape Town, South Africa, while walking with her family. The ‘evil-eyed’ pufferfish, … Read more