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Tests are being carried out at sewage plants across England as the government tries to get a "head start" on where new coronavirus outbreaks may happen.
During the trials, experts at 44 treatment works will be analysing samples of wastewater for fragments of the disease. Tests can detect the genetic residues of Sars-Cov-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. The residues could be used to discover the presence of the virus in the population, including among those who do not have symptoms or before they develop them. People infected with coronavirus are believed to shed it in their faeces. The World Health Organisation has said there is no evidence that COVID-19 has been transmitted through sewerage systems, but scientists believe nationwide monitoring of them could be a good way to identify future hotspots. https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-tests-at-sewage-plants-aim-to-get-head-start-on-detecting-new-covid-19-outbreaks-12041735?dcmp=snt-sf-twitter HELP US SPREAD GOOD NEWS! I run this site in my spare time and thoroughly enjoy giving you all positive news! If you've enjoyed the site we'd love for you to help me share the good news far and wide, share us on Reddit, your Facebook or your Twitter and spread a little positivity around. Indian drugmaker Wockhardt Ltd will supply millions of doses of multiple COVID-19 vaccines, including that being developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University, under a deal with the UK government announced on Monday.
Shares of Wockhardt jumped 10% after the news in a downcast Mumbai market. [.BO] The company has reserved fill-and-finish capacity - the final manufacturing step of putting vaccines into vials or syringes and packaging them - as part of the agreement, it said. This is the latest step by the UK to secure supplies and production of COVID-19 vaccines after striking four deals with drugmakers to buy their potential shots. “Fill finish is a critical step in the process to get the vaccine in a form to be given to patients. The agreement with Wockhardt will boost our capability to ensure that,” Kate Bingham, chair of UK Vaccines Task Force, said in a statement. The UK government has also reserved one fill-and-finish production line at a Wockhardt subsidiary in Wrexham, Wales for its exclusive use for the next 18 months to secure supply. It is expected to start the Wexham line in September. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccine-india/indias-wockhardt-strikes-deal-to-supply-covid-19-vaccines-to-uk-idUSKBN24Z113 HELP US SPREAD GOOD NEWS! I run this site in my spare time and thoroughly enjoy giving you all positive news! If you've enjoyed the site we'd love for you to help me share the good news far and wide, share us on Reddit, your Facebook or your Twitter and spread a little positivity around. New 90-minute tests that can detect coronavirus and flu will be rolled out in care homes and laboratories from next week.
The "on-the-spot" swab and DNA tests will help distinguish between Covid-19 and other seasonal illnesses, the government said. The health secretary said this would be "hugely beneficial" over the winter. Currently, three quarters of test results are returned within 24 hours and a quarter can take up to two days. The announcement comes as the government pushed back a July target to regularly test care home staff and residents, saying the number of testing kits had become more limited. Almost half a million of the new rapid swab tests, called LamPORE, will be available from next week in adult care settings and laboratories, with millions more due to be rolled out later in the year. Additionally, thousands of DNA test machines, which have already been used in eight London hospitals and can analyse nose swabs, will be rolled out across NHS hospitals from September. Around 5,000 machines will provide 5.8 million tests in the coming months, the Department for Health said. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53632043 HELP US SPREAD GOOD NEWS! I run this site in my spare time and thoroughly enjoy giving you all positive news! If you've enjoyed the site we'd love for you to help me share the good news far and wide, share us on Reddit, your Facebook or your Twitter and spread a little positivity around. Britain’s AstraZeneca (AZN.L) said on Thursday that good data was coming in so far on its vaccine for COVID-19, already in large-scale human trials and widely seen as the front-runner in the race for a shot against the novel coronavirus.
The drugmaker, Britain’s most valuable listed company, also announced second quarter results that beat its sales and profit estimates, thanks to strong sales from a diverse product line-up. “The vaccine development is progressing well. We have had good data so far. We need to show the efficacy in the clinical programme, but so far, so good,” Chief Executive Pascal Soriot said on a media call. AstraZeneca has already reached deals with countries to make more than 2 billion doses of its COVID-19 vaccine, developed in partnership with the University of Oxford, and says it could be approved by the end of this year. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-astrazeneca-results/so-far-so-good-on-leading-covid-vaccine-says-astrazeneca-idUSKCN24V0SH HELP US SPREAD GOOD NEWS! I run this site in my spare time and thoroughly enjoy giving you all positive news! If you've enjoyed the site we'd love for you to help me share the good news far and wide, share us on Reddit, your Facebook or your Twitter and spread a little positivity around. Data released from the UK shows in all areas how the UK is winning the fight against the Coronavirus and goes against much of what you read in the mainstream media.     Source - https://coronavirus-staging.data.gov.uk/healthcare?areaType=nation&areaName=England
HELP US SPREAD GOOD NEWS! I run this site in my spare time and thoroughly enjoy giving you all positive news! If you've enjoyed the site we'd love for you to help me share the good news far and wide, share us on Reddit, your Facebook or your Twitter and spread a little positivity around. UK Coronavirus patients on ventilators drops below 100 for first time since lockdown, stats show7/30/2020
The number of coronavirus patients on ventilators has dropped below 100 for the first time since the UK went into lockdown, stats show. At the height of the pandemic in April, more than 3,300 people were on a ventilator in Britain while battling Covid-19, according to NHS figures. The number has been slowly declining since, with new cases also falling as the country was urged to stay at home and protect the NHS. In recent weeks, the Government has gradually eased restrictions while keeping social distancing measures in place. But with pubs, restaurants and gyms reopened it appears to be a promising sign that those suffering more severely with Covid is still decreasing. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12257925/coronavirus-patients-ventilators-below-100-first-time-lockdown/  In April, Sarah Gilbert’s three children, 21-year-old triplets all studying biochemistry, decided to take part in a trial for an experimental vaccine against Covid-19.
It was their mother’s vaccine—she leads the University of Oxford team that developed it—but there wasn’t a big family talk. “We didn’t really discuss it as I wasn’t home much at the time,” Gilbert told me recently. She’d been working around the clock, as one does while trying to end a pandemic, and at any rate wasn’t worried for her kids. “We know the adverse event profile and we know the dose to use, because we’ve done this so many times before,” she says. “Obviously we’re doing safety testing, but we’re not concerned.” With safety low on her list of worries (her triplets are fine), Gilbert is focused on quickly determining how effective the vaccine will be and how it will be made. In April, Oxford struck a deal with British pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca Plc to spearhead global manufacturing and distribution and help run more trials around the world. AstraZeneca has agreed to sell the vaccine on a not-for-profit basis during the crisis if it proves effective and has lined up deals with multiple manufacturers to produce more than 2 billion doses. At the end of April, crunching a process that normally takes about five years into less than four months, Gilbert and her colleagues at Oxford’s Jenner Institute started a human trial on 1,100 people. When Gilbert testified before a parliamentary committee in early July, one member compared her effort to going into a shed and coming out with a jet engine. Gilbert’s team has leapfrogged other vaccine contenders to the point where it will likely finish vaccinating subjects in its big 10,000-person efficacy trial before other candidates even start testing on that scale, Kate Bingham, chair of the U.K. government’s Vaccine Taskforce, told the parliamentary committee in early July. “She’s well ahead of the world,” Bingham said. “It’s the most advanced vaccine anywhere.” Gilbert has voiced remarkable confidence in her chances, saying the Oxford vaccine has an 80% probability of being effective in stopping people who are exposed to the novel coronavirus from developing Covid-19. She has said she could know by September. Asked by MPs in early July whether the world would have to struggle through the winter without a vaccine, Gilbert said, “I hope we can improve on those timelines and come to your rescue.” Long form article detail : https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-07-15/oxford-s-covid-19-vaccine-is-the-coronavirus-front-runner HELP US SPREAD GOOD NEWS! I run this site in my spare time and thoroughly enjoy giving you all positive news! If you've enjoyed the site we'd love for you to help me share the good news far and wide, share us on Reddit, your Facebook or your Twitter and spread a little positivity around. Hopes of a rapid recovery in Britain’s economy from the coronavirus lockdown have been boosted by a summer rebound in retail sales and the strongest monthly growth in business activity for five years. The latest figures from the Office for National Statistics showed retail sales rose by 13.9% in June compared with May as pent-up demand among consumers returned overall spending close to pre-pandemic levels. A health check on business activity from IHS Markit and the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply also showed Britain’s private sector economy returned to growth in July as clients and customers returned to spending and businesses were able to open their operations as staff returned.  Nearly 900,000 public sector workers are to receive a pay rise, chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced, after months of political pressure to reward key workers on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic.
Doctors, dentists, teachers, police officers and soldiers are among those who will see extra money in their wage packets, as the government chooses to honour the recommendations of independent pay review bodies. Teachers and doctors will see the largest above-inflation increases, at 3.1 per cent and 2.8 per cent respectively, according to the Treasury. But NHS staff in other roles were left out of the announcement. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/coronavirus-nhs-public-sector-pay-rise-rishi-sunak-doctors-teachers-a9629441.html HELP US SPREAD GOOD NEWS! I run this site in my spare time and thoroughly enjoy giving you all positive news! If you've enjoyed the site we'd love for you to help me share the good news far and wide, share us on Reddit, your Facebook or your Twitter and spread a little positivity around.
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