‘We do believe there will be further cases,’ says New Zealand’s Ashley Bloomfield; Russia vaccine not yet completed its final trials; global deaths climb towards 750,000. Follow the latest updates‘They’ve jumped the gun’: scientists worry about Russia’s Covid-19 vaccineCovid-19 may have been circulating in New Zealand for weeks, as fresh case emergesFrench and Dutch on alert over rise in casesUK economy plunges into deepest recession since records beganSee all our coronavirus coverage 2.48am BST Dr Bloomfield says the earliest time an infected person displayed symptoms was July 31st, and that implies that the latest outbreak could have been circulating in the community for that long.The person who fell sick on July 31st and later tested positive for Covid-19 spent most of the time they were ill at home in bed. 2.42am BST An anti-lockdown protest is currently taking place in the Northland city of Whangarei and prime minister Jacinda Ardern said conspiracy theories regarding the virus aren’t new, but are dangerous.“I have seen reports of people overseas who have viewed Covid-19 as fake who have lost their lives to it – so that’s the evidence. The global situation is the evidence that this is very very real, we need to take it seriously.”Ardern said if you don’t trust politicians than you should trust doctors and scientists. Continue reading…
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