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tracing and monitoring how does a COVID test actually work to antibodies to COVID

mean immunity and the tech to monitor COVID symptoms from home.

Plus in the news, as lockdowns go local, how are they doing it down under?

Why planting trees to capture carbon might not necessarily be the best move and the sparrows changing their tune.

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First up this week, the city of Leicester has been making the headlines.

Now unlike the rest of the UK that celebrated

Super Saturday as the lockdown eased, there was no grand reopening for the pubs in Leicester. Schools

have been restricted to children of essential workers again and non-essential shops have

had to pull down the shutters because owing to a surge in coronavirus cases, the lockdown has

been extended there.

Nobody seems to be able to put their finger on precisely why Lester has come top of the League for coronavirus cases this last month.

The Department for Health and Social Care said there were multiple factors causing the spike and that there were no quote social care homes,

causing the spike and that there were no, quote,

care homes, hospital settings or industrial processes

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