A heavily-mutated Covid variant dubbed the ‘real deal’ is already in the UK, health officials confirmed on Friday, August 18 amid fears it could trigger a fresh wave. Virus-tracking researchers detected the Omicron spin-off – nicknamed Pirola but also known scientifically as BA.X/BA.2.86 – in a patient hospitalised in London. The unidentified patient is thought to have caught the strain within the UK. UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) bosses did not reveal exactly how many cases have …
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A young woman has denied illegally aborting her child during lockdown. Bethany Cox, 22, is accused of using Misoprostol, a drug that till 2018 was illegal in the UK for home use, to abort her unborn child at a time when it was ‘capable of being born alive.’ Cox, of Eaglescliffe, Stockton on Tees, was charged with two offences during an appearance at Teesside Crown Court on Tuesday: child destruction and procuring her own miscarriage by poison when …
More than 150,000 people in the UK have now died within 28 days of a positive COVID-19 test since the pandemic began according to the UK Office for National Statistics. The figure passed the 150,000 mark after a further 313 deaths were reported in the government’s daily figures on Saturday, January 8, taking the total to 150,057. The UK is the seventh country to pass 150,000 reported deaths, after the US, Brazil, India, Russia, Mexico and Peru. Speaking on Saturday, …
UFC legend Diego Sanchez is going through a hard time in the hospital as he is suffering with pneumonia caused by Covid. The 39-year-old fan favourite also has blood clots in his legs as a result of coronavirus and shared images of himself in his bed. Sanchez wrote: ‘Pneumonia Covid never give up’, alongside an image of himself with wires and diodes connected to his body with a face mask on. He also wrote: ‘Covid is no motha******* joke’, Blood …
An Indian holy man who claimed he could perform COVID-19 exorcisms by kissing people’s hands, has died from the disease after infecting 20 of his followers during the spiritual practice. According to Times of India, the tantric man, from Ratlam in Madhya Pradesh, would kiss the hands of his devotees and then tell them it would make their problems go away. He also claimed that his ‘kiss-cure’ worked on Coronavirus patients even after health authorities warned that the virus …
Dr Osagie Ehanire has said that 70 percent of Nigerians that have died from the novel Coronavirus in the country are persons with hypertension, diabetes, kidney disease, HIV, cancer, and tuberculosis. He stated this during the briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID -19 on Thursday, May 21. According to the Minister, analysis of the number of deaths so far recorded as a result of the virus showed that 70 percent were males while the remaining 30 …