Italy deaths highest since mid-May – as it happened

This blog is now closed. We ’ve launched a new blog at the link below:Coronavirus news – live11.57pmGMTWe ’ve launched a new blog at the link below – head there for the latest:Related:Coronavirus live news: Intensive care units in France could reach 'extreme saturation' in two weeks11.39pmGMTA groundbreaking study using high-resolution satellite imagery to analyse graveyards has found that deaths have nearly doubled in Aden, the centre of Yemen ’s coronavirus outbreak.The discovery has given a sense of the true scale of the havoc the pandemic has wreaked on the vulnerable country.In a context like Yemen statistics are unreliable or just projections, and even actors on the ground have difficulty collecting accurate data.You can say x or y about the pandemic, but if there ’s no data for it you can’t really know the impact.Related:Satellite imagery of Aden indicates scale of pandemic in YemenContinue reading...

Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - October 27, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Jessica Murray (now); Aamna Mohdin, Lucy Campbell, Nazia Parveen and Helen Sullivan (earlier) Tags: Coronavirus World news US news UK news Australia news Science Infectious diseases Source Type: news