Best cash Isa rates: Marcus Bank fails to spark a tax-free rate war

No green shoots for Isa savers as the new tax year sees saving rates fall as Marcus fails to spur a tax-free rate war Rates on easy-access Isas have fallen from 0.46% in March to 0.41%  March and April is usually ‘Isa season’ when banks compete for savers’ cash   Rates are now at an all-time … Read more

England’s Covid R rate stays stable and may still be as low as 0.8

England’s Covid R rate has stayed stable and may still be as low as 0.8, No10’s top scientists said today as separate data suggested the outbreak has ‘levelled off’ since schools reopened. SAGE scientists predicted the rate – which gauges the spread of the virus – was between 0.8 and 1.0, indicating case numbers may … Read more

England’s R rate remains stable and is between 0.8 and 1, SAGE says

England’s coronavirus R rate has not changed since last week, No10’s scientific advisers claimed today. SAGE estimated the figure – the average number of people each infected person passes the virus on to – was still between 0.8 and one but may be as high as one in every region because cases are ‘levelling off’.     Advisers … Read more

Mortality rate rose 15.9% in 2020 and 5% of all COVID death certificates listed virus as only cause

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has published two new reports on the extent to which COVID-19 contributed to U.S. deaths in 2020.  In one of the studies, researchers found that the virus caused the U.S. mortality rate to rise nearly 16 percent. They also determined that COVID killed 91.5 out of every … Read more

Covid Brazil: Death rate TRIPLED among people in their 20s in February

Brazil‘s coronavirus death rate tripled among people in their 20s in February as the country’s dangerous new variant took over, a study has found. Researchers investigated the ratio of Covid cases to deaths in Brazil last month and found it surged in young people. Even though the numbers of cases across the country were declining … Read more

Coronavirus: Brazil’s Covid death rate TRIPLED among people in their 20s in February

Brazil‘s coronavirus death rate tripled among people in their 20s in February as the country’s dangerous new variant took over, a study has found. Researchers investigated the ratio of Covid cases to deaths in Brazil last month and found it surged in young people. Even though the numbers of cases across the country were declining … Read more

Covid UK: London’s daily death rate falls to five, the second lowest in England

Just five people are dying with Covid every day in London — nearly 40 times fewer than during the peak of the crisis in January, according to official figures.  And the capital now has the second lowest Covid death rate in England, amid dwindling death tolls across the country and a mammoth vaccine drive.  Britain’s … Read more

CPI inflation rate drops to 0.4% in February

CPI inflation rate drops to 0.4% in February with clothes and cars getting cheaper after renewed lockdown – easing fears over rising prices Headline CPI rate of inflation fell from 0.7 per cent to 0.4 per cent in February Suprised economists who had been expecting a slight uptick in the annual rate Clothes and second … Read more

Santander savers set to lose out as bank announces string of rate cuts

Santander savers set to lose out as bank announces a string of rate cuts to come in next month By Sylvia Morris For The Daily Mail Published: 22:01 GMT, 23 March 2021 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 23 March 2021 Santander is slashing the rate on its Easy Isa from a lowly 0.1 per cent to a … Read more