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FactCheck: the target was for 100,000 tests a day to be ‘carried out’, not ‘capacity’ to do 100,000 tests
The target Matt Hancock set out was not to increase capacity to 100,000 tests a day, it was to actually do those tests.
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FactCheck: are ethnic minority coronavirus patients more likely to die?
Some reports suggest BME patients are more likely to die from coronavirus than white people. But the data isn’t clear.
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FactCheck: advice on ibuprofen and paracetamol changes again
Current advice to the public is that patients can take paracetamol or ibuprofen when self-medicating with Covid-19 symptoms.
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FactCheck: can we trust the Covid-19 death toll?
Counting the number of people who have tragically died from Covid-19 is proving to be a complicated task. Here is FactCheck’s user’s guide to the statistics…
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FactCheck: are BME people more likely to be in intensive care with coronavirus?
This data doesn’t show that ethnic minority patients overall are three times more likely to need critical care, as has been suggested.
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FactCheck: is the UK on course for the most coronavirus deaths per capita?
Leading experts are sceptical of the research that predicts the UK will suffer the worst death toll in Europe.
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FactCheck: are you immune if you’ve had coronavirus?
The science on Covid-19 immunity is far from settled.
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FactCheck: How long can the coronavirus survive on surfaces and in the air?
The virus did not survive in any condition tested for longer than three days.
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FactCheck Q&A: the new coronavirus “blood tests”
Scientists and manufacturers are clear that antibody tests alone cannot provide a complete alternative to the viral tests we are using now.
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FactCheck: how reliable are the UK’s coronavirus tests?
How reliable are the results from the current coronavirus tests?
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FactCheck: UK health minister contradicts WHO on testing
The claim that testing for coronavirus “won’t cut the number of deaths” directly contradicts statements made by the head of the World Health Organization
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FactCheck: is social distancing working?
The apparently high level of compliance leads the researchers to predict that there could be a substantial decline in coronavirus cases in the UK over the coming weeks.
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FactCheck: caution advised on Covid-19 death toll
Experts have long warned not to put too much weight on deaths reported on a single day.
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FactCheck: how many people are dying from Covid-19 in the UK?
The Department of Health and Social Care has told FactCheck it plans to publish data on Covid-19 related deaths in the community from tomorrow (Tuesday).
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FactCheck: confusion over NHS England testing numbers
When Michael Gove said “we had 10,000 tests yesterday”, he was talking about patients being tested, not healthcare workers