Coronavirus roadmap: When will England’s lockdown end? July 18, 2020 Boris Johnson has outlined a roadmap for the end of England’s lockdown, giving hope that coronavirus social distancing could end before Christmas. Johnson changed tack on government guidance to work from home where possible in a speech on 17 July. Instead employers will be asked to discuss with employees whether and how they can safely [...]
Matt Hancock calls for ‘urgent review’ into England coronavirus deaths tally July 17, 2020 Health secretary Matt Hancock has called for an “urgent” review into an official tally of coronavirus deaths that has been revealed to include people dying of other causes. Public Health England (PHE) included people who tested positive for Covid-19 but died from other causes in its stats of coronavirus deaths in the country, the Evening [...]
London’s R rate could be as high as 1.1 July 17, 2020 London’s R rate could be as high as 1.1, according to the government’s Sage advisory group. The R rate – the reproduction rate of the virus – is between 0.8 and 1.1 in the capital as the government continues to ease lockdown measures. It stands at 0.7 and 0.9 in the rest of the UK, [...]
66 more people die of coronavirus in the UK July 16, 2020 An additional 66 people have died of coronavirus in the UK, government officials confirmed, taking the total number of fatalities to 45,119. According to figures from the Department of Health, there have also been 642 new positive cases of the virus. That means 292,552 people have now tested positive for coronavirus in the UK. The new [...]
What are the long-term prospects for healthcare investing post Covid-19? July 16, 2020 | City Talk The pandemic has shone a spotlight on healthcare but what happens when a vaccine is found? We asked Schroders’ investment experts for their views on the sector’s long-term prospects. The Covid-19 crisis has hurt most economic sectors this year. As of 30 June, healthcare was one of only three sectors to post positive year-to-date returns [...]
English lockdown reduced Covid-19 rates more than thought, study finds July 15, 2020 The reproductive number of Covid-19 in England could have been lower than experts originally thought in May, suggesting that the lockdown was successful in driving down cases, according to the latest scientific research. The research indicated that infection rates fell during the last full month of lockdown before the Prime Minister began easing restrictions in [...]
Donald Trump hails vaccine progress after positive trial results July 15, 2020 A number of promising developments related to coronavirus vaccine developments announced today have met with the approval of US president Donald Trump. Using his favoured platform Twitter, Trump wrote: “Great News on Vaccines!” It is unclear exactly what the president was referring to, but the tweet followed the news that drug firm Moderna’s experimental vaccine [...]
Is the office an analogue product in a digital world? July 15, 2020 | City Talk Reports of the death of the office are premature, but change is coming as Covid-19 means more of us will work from home in the future. The Covid-19 pandemic has acted as a catalyst, accelerating a number of global trends. One of the most significant of these is working from home, a trend which is [...]
Moderna vaccine Phase 1 results show it induces immune response July 15, 2020 Moderna’s experimental vaccine for coronavirus showed it was safe and provoked immune responses in all 45 healthy volunteers in an ongoing early-stage study, US researchers reported on Tuesday. Volunteers who got two doses of the Moderna vaccine had high levels of virus-killing antibodies that exceeded the average levels seen in people who had recovered from [...]
JP Morgan sets aside $10.5bn to cover loan defaults due to coronavirus pandemic July 14, 2020 Investment bank JP Morgan Chase & Co has set aside $10.5bn (£8.38bn) of reserves to cover a potential surge of loan defaults due to the coronavirus pandemic as US cases of Covid-19 continued to rise. The bank increased its provision for credit losses by $9.3bn compared to the previous year reflecting the “deterioration and increased [...]