Britain, with a population six times ours, has buried 26,000 victims | An unemployment rate that was below 4% last month is now above 25% |
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For now, the numbers and the comparisons suggest, that strategy has been remarkably effective | We had days and days of screw-ups at the airport |
This happens when cases identified through a positive rapid lateral flow test are followed by polymerase chain reaction PCR tests within 3 days that are all negative.
12Many thanks to Hagai Rossman, Eran Segal and colleagues for providing official data on Israeli vaccinations, confirmed cases and hospitalizations | We were at a rate where the number of new patients was doubling every three days… There was a single day when the number of seriously ill patients rose by 50% |
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Bodies are buried in a trench on Hart Island, April 8, 2020, in the Bronx borough of New York | He is the author of "Still Life with Bombers" 2004 and "A Little Too Close to God" 2000 , and co-author of "Shalom Friend: The Life and Legacy of Yitzhak Rabin" 1996 |
Promised loans and grants have proved hard to obtain or inadequate, been delayed, or not come through at all | Scientists in Israel - which is leading the vaccination race - have told Sky News that they are "very hopeful" having studied preliminary data from 200,000 vaccinated people |
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And so by seeing the real world impact so early on in the same direction and in the same timing as we've seen in the clinical trials is something that makes us very hopeful |
She said that out of the total coronavirus infections in the country, 50 are medical staff who contracted the disease during treatment of patients at hospitals.
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