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On Sunday 6 June: KEEP PROCEEDING WITH CAUTION PLEASE! Roadmap Step 3 relaxations including Rule of 6/2 households indoors are in place. However, we also have ‘the Indian variant’, B.1.617.2, now called the Delta Variant, spreading and if we want to keep these relaxations we must behave properly to stop a spike of infections. The … Continue reading An Update from Us 06.06.2021

Content originally from ONS As restrictions to curb the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) continue to lift across the UK, data are important in helping us monitor the current state of the pandemic, as well as understand more about the wide-ranging impacts it has had over the past year. Here are five things we learned … Continue reading Coronavirus (COVID-19) in charts: What we learned over the past month (May 2021)

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To mark Carers Week a new report has been launched, entitled Breaks or breakdown, about carers' experiences of breaks in the pandemic.

Content originally from UK Research and Innovation The latest research on pets and COVID-19 Credit: Olga Novikova / Getty Images With the rapid global spread of COVID-19, one concern for the public and for pet-owners has been whether COVID-19 can spread between people and pets. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, some animals have … Continue reading The latest research on pets and COVID-19

Content originally from GOV.UK In the weeks following the full re-opening of schools, COVID-19 outbreaks linked to school settings and cases among school age cohorts have remained low and broadly reflected what is happening in the wider community. As 9 million pupils across the country returned to face-to-face education in March, we saw only a … Continue reading A safe return to schools

Content originally from UK Research and Innovation Studying the link between COVID-19 vaccines and rare blood clots Credit: Hailshadow/Getty Images A new, rapid nationwide study aiming to understand the vascular complications around blood clots after coronavirus vaccination is now underway. New research has now begun following reports of a very rare condition involving blood clots … Continue reading Studying the link between COVID-19 vaccines and rare blood clots

Content originally from UK Research and Innovation Fatty acids could be used for antiviral treatments Credit: Bulgnn / Getty Images Scientists from the University of Bristol and start-up Halo Therapeutics are developing antiviral treatments that could prevent the virus from entering the body. The team recently reported a breakthrough discovery in Science magazine. They found that exposing SARS-CoV-2 … Continue reading Fatty acids could be used for antiviral treatments