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COVID-19 testing is to be increased in two Birmingham wards in order to monitor and suppress the South African variant, Birmingham City Council has announced. Extensive surveillance of COVID-19 has identified one case of the COVID-19 variant first discovered in South Africa within the Alum Rock and Glebe Farm & Tile Cross wards.
A Birmingham woman who has been given a ‘second chance’ after receiving a liver transplant has urged more people from the black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) community to become organ donors and save lives. Sunaina Paul, 31, from Bearwood, who only ‘had months to live’ is recovering in hospital after receiving a life saving…
Professor Chris Whitty, the government’s senior advisor on health matters, has tested positive for coronavirus and is now self-isolating. Boris Johnson’s chief medical officer Chris Whitty has confirmed he has tested positive for coronavirus. This news comes hot on the heels of prime minister Boris Johnson and health secretary Matt Hancock both confirming they are…
The UK health secretary Matt Hancock says he has symptoms of coronavirus and tests have confirmed that he has the virus. Hours after prime minster Boris Johnson confirmed he had tested positive for coronavirus another of his key ministers has tested positive for the virus today. Health Secretary Matt Hancock has issued a statement that…
Hollywood star Idris Elba has confirmed he has tested positive for coronavirus and gone into self-isolation. The British actor has took to social media to say he feels okay and currently has no obvious symptoms, but has been isolated since he found out that he may have been exposed to the virus.