An estimated 62,750 excess deaths resulted in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic in England and Wales, according to demographic experts at Oxford’s Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science—who reveal life expectancy was cut for men and women by -1.3 and -1.0…
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Travellers to England, Scotland will need negative COVID tests
Travellers arriving in England and Scotland will soon be required to show negative coronavirus tests, officials said on Friday, as they try to curb the spread of new strains. The UK government had previously argued against the requirement, which has…
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Shops, gyms to reopen in England under new COVID-19 plan
Haircuts, shopping trips and visits to the pub will be back on the agenda for millions of people when a four-week lockdown in England comes to an end next week, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Monday. Johnson confirmed to…
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Care homes in England had greatest increase in excess deaths at height of the COVID-19 pandemic
Care homes in England experienced the highest increase in excess deaths at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic compared to those in the rest of the UK, according to new research. A study—co-ordinated from the University of Stirling’s Management School—found…
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New treatment for rare blood cancer approved for NHS use in England
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has approved the drug brentuximab vedotin to treat some adults with a rare type of fast-growing lymphoma. Clinical trial data suggests that combining the targeted treatment with chemotherapy could give people…
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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. Following Freedom of Information…
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Report estimates 9,000 non-COVID excess deaths from pandemic in England
Around 9,000 non-COVID-19 deaths in England during three months of the pandemic would not have occurred had the pandemic not happened. This is one of the findings of a new report looking at excess non-COVID-19 deaths in the period between…
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