Europe had 50% ‘excess mortality’ at outbreak peak: French data office

Europe experienced a 50-percent rise in excess mortality over a week in March and April due to the coronavirus outbreak, according to data released by France’s Insee statistics agency Wednesday. Excess mortality is the number of deaths in a given period over and above what one would have expected to see, and is a measure […]

Office lighting experiment suggests workers sleep longer when exposed to more daylight

A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. has found that office workers sleep more hours each night when exposed to more sunlight during the day. In their paper published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, the group describes their experiments in real office buildings and what they […]

Virus spread ‘still accelerating’ in Brazil, Peru, Chile: WHO regional office

International health authorities expressed concern Tuesday over signs the spread of the new coronavirus is “still accelerating” in Brazil, Peru and Chile. “In South America, we are particularly concerned that the number of new cases reported last week in Brazil was the highest for a seven-day period, since the outbreak began,” said Carissa Etienne, director […]

Foreign Office warns ALL British people to LEAVE China

Foreign Office warns ALL 30,000 British people in China to LEAVE as global death toll from deadly coronavirus outbreak hits 427 Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said British people’s safety was the top priority The Government had already advised people not to go to China unless necessary Now they recommend that anybody there should leave as […]