Northamptonshire school Covid cases on the rise after sharp decline Covid cases in Northamptonshire schools are rising according to latest figures from Public Health bosses.
Weekly average case volumes had been high up to March 31, after which they decreased rapidly, but recent data shows that the seven-day average case totals have started to rise again, particularly in pupils. Northamptonshire Telegraph
Wising up to levelling up ‘Levelling up’ has become an earworm. It featured highly in the Conservative manifesto in 2019, which was referring to improving infrastructure, skills, productivity and economic growth across the country. The idea is to make the UK economy less lop-sided, and less focused on London and the South East.
But the government’s levelling up strategy is still under construction. The recently announced Levelling Up Fund is mainly focused on basic infrastructure like transport, not health.
So is levelling up a real and serious aspiration? What would a strategy look like that might also help reduce health inequalities? Podcast from The Health Foundation.
New Oxford vaccine 77% effective against malaria, trial results show A malaria vaccine developed by the same team behind the Oxford coronavirus jab has been found to be 77 per cent effective in providing protection against the mosquito-borne disease, in what is a major scientific breakthrough for the world. The Independent
