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A mass testing pilot for asymptomatic people was held in Liverpool (Peter Byrne/PA) Detection of coronavirus cases rose by almost a fifth and potentially thousands of new infections were prevented, results of a community testing pilot in Liverpool have suggested. More than 3,200 staff days among key workers, such as those in the emergency services, were saved from being lost to quarantine through a test-to-release scheme, researchers said. New cases of the virus dropped by 21% compared with other areas up to mid-December, the study showed, at which point the spread of the Kent variant made it more difficult to compare areas. ....
BBC News By Christine Jeavans image copyrightGetty Images Healthcare in the UK has vastly improved since Victorian times, yet the geography of coronavirus deaths closely follows the pattern of poor health in the 19th Century. A succession of studies has found a link between Covid-19 and poverty, with the latest describing a jaw-dropping fall in life expectancy in Greater Manchester due to the pandemic. That pattern of deeply entrenched deprivation and ill-health stretches back at least 170 years, according to the chief medical officer for England. If you had a map of Covid s biggest effects now and a map of child deaths in 1850, they look remarkably similar, Prof Chris Whitty told an NHS conference in June. ....
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Date Time Public Health, Viral Variants and Vaccinations: Liverpool Responds February 22 Twelve months ago, UK schools were bustling, shops were open, offices full and the media was considering how China could contain a viral outbreak that began in a city few outside the country had heard of. What started as another infectious disease – see Ebola, MERS, SARS – in a far off clime soon became a threat to daily life in the UK; and within weeks the Government had acted. Schools closed, office staff were sent home, and shop and hospitality employees – alongside others in public facing sectors – began receiving 80% of their salary from the Government, in return for not going to work. ....
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