Devi Sridhar

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There are now more options for tests with antigen tests allowing for more rapid testing which will help the public to get on top of the virus and open the way for normal life to resume. Photograph: Lionel Bonaventure/AFP via Getty Images)
Reasons to believe Covid-19 pandemic will ease next spring, says health expert

The world is in for a “brutal” experience over the winter months with Covid-19 but a corner will be turned by next March, a public health expert has s(...)

A mask protects the public from the wearer who might not know they are contagious.
Face masks: All you need to know about where, when and why you need one

Ireland got its response to Covid-19 largely right. Case figures and deaths don’t lie. But we got some things wrong – notably on face masks. In spit(...)

Felisa Gonzalez looks at her mother, Maria Maillo, through the window during a visit to a nursing home in Barcelona, Spain. Photograph: David Ramos/Getty Images
‘This whole corridor is dead’: Europe’s coronavirus care home disaster

Across Europe, coronavirus has ravaged homes for the elderly, raising questions about why the part of society most vulnerable to the disease was overl(...)

Team Ineos manager Dave Brailsford, pictured during the 2016 Tour de France. Photograph: Chris Graythen/Getty
Dave Brailsford to pull Team Ineos out of Tour de France if it isn’t safe

Dave Brailsford has said he would pull his Team Ineos squad out of the rescheduled 2020 Tour de France if he felt that the race’s precautions against (...)

Didi ‘The Devil’ Senft jumps in the air during stage 16 of the 2016 Tour de France, from Moirans-en-Montagne to Berne in Switzerland. Photograph: Michael Steele/Getty Images
August Tour de France could be a ‘recipe for disaster’

Devi Sridhar, the chair of Global Public Health at the University of Edinburgh and also a key adviser to the Scottish government on the Covid-19 pande(...)