Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

COVID-19 hotspots projected with new website

A new website uses reported cases and deaths to estimate the probability regions in England and Wales will become COVID-19 "hotspots."

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

UK considers first local lockdown in COVID-19 pandemic

Britain's government is considering a lockdown for the central English city of Leicester amid a spike of COVID-19 cases—the first time that a single U.K. area would face such an extreme measure during the pandemic.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Concern over COVID-19 track, test and trace

Writing an analysis piece in the BMJ, Peter Roderick from Newcastle University and colleagues question why the government has eroded England's established system of local infectious disease control and created a parallel ...

Pediatrics

Proportion of children born into care in England now one in 200

Academics at the University of Huddersfield and University of Central Lancashire have revealed that the number of babies being taken into state care in their first week of life is almost 50% higher than previously believed.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Beijing reports 22 new virus cases as millions tested

China's capital reported 22 new cases of the coronavirus on Sunday after a mass testing effort that has collected more than two million samples in a race to contain a new outbreak.

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