🧑🔬Concerns about waning antibody levels and the efficacy of current vaccines against emerging variants means searching for the perfect booster shot has been a pressing priority.
Luckily, a slew of new studies has provided astonishingly encouraging news
👉 To the east, in the Mississippi Delta, sea levels are rising. Since 1932, some 1,883 square miles of land have been submerged.
🇺🇸 If this was Delaware or Rhode Island, America would have one fewer state
🐊 With higher temperatures, eggs are hatching faster. Despite a harvesting programme, there are now two million wild alligators in the state, up from 100,000 half a century ago.
🏘️ Hundreds of thousands of people have become climate refugees in their own state
🏴 After 90 exhilarating minutes in Rome, which saw England beat Ukraine 4-0 to go into the semi-finals of Euro 2020, it felt as if football might really be coming home telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/07/0…
📸 In pictures: England erupts with joy as team reaches Euro 2020 semi-final after beating Ukraine
🏴 "England's destruction of Ukraine adds to the growing realisation that hope can be replaced by delivery - indeed, if not now, then when?" | Writes @oliverbrown_teltelegraph.co.uk/euro-2021/2021…
🦠 Scotland is now the worst-hit region in the UK, with 317 infections per 100,000 people - more than double England's rate.
📈 On Friday, it reported more than 4,000 cases - the highest number so far in the pandemic, although hospitalisations and deaths remain mercifully low
💉 While vaccinations are moving at a similar pace across the UK, the averages disguise important gaps.
👉 Serology data from the ONS shows Scotland has fewer people with antibodies against Covid-19 than England: 79 per cent compared with England’s 87 per cent