Coronavirus live: two members of India G7 team test positive; Tokyo Olympics ‘to go ahead’ after test event

Delegationself-isolating after members test positive for Covid; Seb Coe saysGames in July will be ‘extremely good’ even without spectatorsIndian delegation forced to self-isolate in London for CovidUK pledges millions to bolster testing for coronavirus variantsUS won ’t reach herd immunity this year. So how will it live with Covid?Analysis: Britain ’s reasons for Covid optimismSee all our coronavirus coverage11.48amBSTWorld Health Organization experts have expressed “very low confidence” in data provided by Chinese state-owned drugmaker Sinopharm on its Covid vaccine regarding the risk of serious side-effects in some patients, a document seen by Reuters shows.The “evidence assessment” document was prepared by the WHO’s Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (Sage) for its review scheduled this week of theSinopharm shot, authorised by 45 countries and jurisdictions for use in adults, with 65m doses administered.We are very confident that 2 doses of BBIBP-CorV are efficacious in preventing PCR confirmed Cov0d-19 in adults (18-59 years)... Analysis of safety amongst participants with comorbidities (was) limited by the low number of participants with comorbidities (other than obesity) in the Phase 3 trial.11.34amBSTRates of depression have more than doubled since before the pandemic, with young people hit the hardest, figures suggest.More than a fifth (21%) of people aged 16 and over inBritain experienced some form of depression between 27 January and 7 March, acco...
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