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Covid: Further 175 people die following positive coronavirus tests as UK records 6,609 new cases
Boris Johnson today visited a laboratory in Queen’s University Belfast in Northern Ireland (Pictured: The PM with Professor Jose Bengoechea orf the Wellcome-Wolfson Institute for Experimental Medicine)
A further 175 people have died within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test bringing the total death in the UK to 125, 353, according to Government figures.
However, UK statistics agencies, factoring in fatalities where Covid was mentioned on the death certificate have reported a higher death toll of 143,259.
As of Friday morning, there were a further 6,609 confirmed cases of coronavirus bringing the total number of positive tests to more than 4.2 million.
Leading scientists from Queen’s University Belfast are partnering with researchers from Indian institutions including the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru and the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi to establish joint data science and digital health projects in areas such as vaccine design for pandemic threats, artificial intelligence, and genomic analysis in cancer.
The scientists will come together at a virtual symposium today (Thursday 25 February 2021) to share their insights and expertise in the fields of data science and digital health, which has the potential of unlocking highly effective solutions to global health challenges.
Together, the scientists will look at several new research possibilities to unlock the power of ‘big data’ to enhance outcomes in disease such as cancer and eye disease, while also addressing some of the complex ethical issues that the use of big data raises.
Dr Gabriel Scally
In 2018 Dr Scally was pointed by the Irish Government to conduct a preliminary inquiry into the cervical cancer controversy.
He also assisted the Hyponatraemia Inquiry into the deaths of five children in Northern Ireland hospitals as both an expert witness and as an advisor to the Chair, Justice O Hara.
During the course of 2020, Dr Scally says he had a strange feeling that all his working life as a public health doctor has been in preparation for this time. In the spring I could see clearly the serious errors mounting up and it made me very anxious and extremely fearful of what was coming, he said.