was one of the most worrying features of the first wave of the pandemic. a new study from a group of uk universities has examined the numbers to see how common it was. the researchers found that at least one in ten hospital patients with covid were infected after admission. at the peak, this rose to more like one in five. overall, this research suggests 11,800 people may have been infected this way and possibly more because early data is unclear. crucially, there were big variations between similar types of hospital and that s down to different preventative measures. even at the peak of the outbreak, we saw that some busy hospitals still managed to maintain good infection prevention and control. that meant that there was good hand washing, there was good testing of patients so the right patients were tested and kept separately from non infected patients,
brutal armed group very practice in guerrilla warfare. expecting afghan civilians to take them on is tough. even expecting the afghan national army to take them on as difficult. it is like the situation in north west iraq, and what happened in 2014. it feels like that. it is extraordinary what a few hundred armed men can do if they want to do it. sadly, the only way of holding them back was an air because that prevented the taliban to roll utterly into the times and to have a conventional military force. they had to be a guerrilla force. when we remove that air support, we have given them an opportunity to rampage around the country. we are looking at a civil war because although they had taken a lot of the country, they
afghan government knows where to go. they are trapped in the headlights of an oncoming disaster. they are trapped in the headlights of an oncoming disaster. thank you very much- the metropolitan police says a 14 year old boy has been charged with the murder of james who was stabbed after confronting a group of teenagers in chingford in east london, on monday evening. the father of britney spears, has agreed to step down as her conservator, after 13 years. the pop star has been mounting a series of legal challenges to the court agreement that gave her father control over her estate and other aspects of her life. a lawyer representing britney says it s another step toward justice . 0ur correspondent barbara plett usher has more. this has been quite a year for britney spears. she finally began to speak out about the arrangement that controls her life. the target of that anger was her father, jamie, the man who became her conservator after she apparently suffered a breakdown 13 years a
we at plymouth city council are now coordinating a multi agency approach to try to support the local community and get some semblance of understanding of exactly what has happened to put the correct measures in place and do our best to bring the community and the city back together after this tragic event. police are expected to give an update on their investigation in plymouth. we ll be there live at around 1130 this morning. in a devastating blow for the afghan government, five more provincial capitals have fallen to the taliban in the last 24 hours. the militants now control 14 provincial capitals and most of northern afghanistan. britain and the us are sending troops back into afghanistan to help evacuate their nationals. in the past month, the taliban has taken considerable territory and this is the picture today. the militant group s gains have been rapid in the past few days, and indeed the past 24 hours, during which taliban fighters have captured afghanistan s
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