Just 59.9% of close contacts of people who tested positive for coronavirus were reached by NHS Test and Trace in the week ending 28 October, figures show. This is the second-lowest weekly percentage for the scheme so far – down from 60.6% in the seven days to 21 October. Over the same period, 137,180 people
Month: November 2020
Pollsters were chastised for incorrectly predicting a large Hillary Clinton win in 2016, yet they have they have got it wrong again. Millions of dollars are spent on looking at who will win a US presidential election, and by how much. Ahead of this year’s election, Joe Biden was predicted a safe win, with the
Donald Trump supporters – some armed with rifles and handguns – have descended on election counting centres where mail-in ballots continue to be tallied up. In the state of Arizona, a mostly unmasked crowd chanted “stop the steal” following unsubstantiated claims that votes for the Republican president were deliberately not being counted. US election 2020
A minister has admitted England’s coronavirus lockdown could be extended beyond 2 December. “We’ve got to follow the evidence,” Justice Secretary Robert Buckland told Kay Burley. “If there isn’t to be an extension of this we go back into the tier system anyway, so we’d leave on a regional or local basis. Please use Chrome
Captain Sir Tom Moore has called on the country to stand “shoulder to shoulder” as England enters a second lockdown. The Second World War veteran, who was knighted after raising more than £32m for the NHS by walking 100 laps of his garden before his 100th birthday, said the nation should pull together to get
Astrophysicists have detected a burst of cosmic radio waves within our solar system for the first time and identified its source, according to research published Wednesday that sheds new light on one of the mysteries of the Universe. The origin of powerful fast radio bursts (FRBs), intense flashes of radio emission that only last a few
We were told this election would take time to interpret and it has. The red and blue mirages did come true. But after an undulating election night, the dust has started to settle a little and at the time of writing, Joe Biden appears to have the political momentum needed to win. As more mail-in
Joe Biden is closing in on Donald Trump in the key battleground of Georgia, hoping to flip a third state from the Republicans and put himself within touching distancing of the White House. The Democrat challenger is now 31,000 votes behind – a much smaller gap than the 372,000 he trailed behind by 24 hours
November 4th, 2020 by NRDC Originally published on the NRDC Expert Blog.by Max Baumhefner Electric utilities in the Midwest are increasingly helping their customers drive on electricity, a reliably cheaper and increasingly cleaner fuel. The Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) will soon rule on a proposed decision that would approve a Consumers Energy program that
Tesla is apparently starting to deliver cars with its own TeslaCam/Sentry Mode storage device. Sentry Mode is Tesla’s integrated surveillance system inside its vehicles using the Autopilot cameras around the car to record potential vandalism or other incidents. Tesla owners have to plug a storage device in one of the USB ports in the center
Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden walks past solar panels while touring the Plymouth Area Renewable Energy Initiative in Plymouth, New Hampshire, U.S., June 4, 2019. Brian Snyder | Reuters While the broad market rallied on Wednesday, a number of renewable energy companies retreated on concern that a Republican-controlled Senate
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Alex Wong | Getty Images Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos this week has sold more than $3 billion worth of shares in his company, according to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission compiled by OpenInsider. Bezos has accelerated his stock sales in the last year. In August, Bezos offloaded more than
Along with the rest of England, people in the West Yorkshire city of Wakefield are beginning a new lockdown. Until 2 December, at least, the majority of households cannot mix indoors or outdoors, non-essential shops will close along with hospitality venues, beauty services and leisure facilities. In Wakefield, the prospect of another month under lockdown
Joe Biden has made no secret of his opposition to Boris Johnson’s career-defining flagship policy: Brexit. Mr Biden claims – wrongly, according to the prime minister – that the Good Friday Agreement is threatened by the Internal Market Bill, currently going through the House of Lords. Image: Boris Johnson will be hoping to have a
Nearly 80 business leaders from the north of England are backing a plea to Boris Johnson from the region’s “Red Wall” Tory MPs for a roadmap out of lockdown and a post-Covid economic recovery plan. In a move turning up the heat on the prime minister as England goes into a four-week lockdown, the business
12:49 PM ET Associated Press Two-time Triple Crown-winning trainer Bob Baffert, who has had multiple horses test positive for medication violations, is taking steps to “do better,” including hiring outside oversight. Baffert said in a statement Wednesday that he is “very aware” of the incidents involving his horses and the impact that it’s had on
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