While interest on fixed-rate savings accounts has been rising throughout the summer, Swaps rates have started to reduce in the last two weeks, which suggests that fixed-term deals “could have reached their peak”, analysts at Paragon Bank have said.
With a surge in savers opting for shorter-term fixed rates, experts warn many may have “missed out” on locking in the highest interest rates seen for 15 years by avoiding three or five-year deals.
Derek Sprawling, savings director at Paragon Bank,
An eight-year-old boy has become the youngest person to successfully climb El Capitan – a 3,000-foot cliffside in Yosemite.
Sam Baker, of Colorado Springs, Colo., has been climbing since he was two years old and has been training to climb El Capitan since he was six.
On Friday, the boy’s father, Joe Baker, posted that the four-person climbing team had made it safely to the top of the cliff.
‘What an amazing week! I’m so proud of Sam. He completed
Covid hospitalisations have now peaked in every region of England, official figures suggest amid calls for No10 to bring back economically-crippling curbs to control the outbreak.
Experts have already urged ministers to reintroduce mask mandates and working from home rules in response to estimates that up to one in 20 people were infected last week. Others have raised the prospect of limits on social gatherings, similar to harsh policies adopted during the darkest spell of the pandemic.
But NHS England
Face mask rules are creeping back into schools amid Britain’s Covid resurgence, despite claims that the current flare-up causing havoc across the country may already be close to peaking.
Headteachers in facilities battling outbreaks have decided to get children to once again wear face coverings in corridors as virus absences wreak havoc on classrooms.
It means schools are following the lead of NHS trusts who have defied national guidance to bring back mask mandates inside hospitals in response to the
America’s sixth Covid wave is already slowing down, experts say, as cases plateau eight days after Memorial Day celebrations which some feared would re-ignite a surge and the test positivity rate falls.
Statistics from health departments around America showed the seven-day average for daily infections fell for the second day in a row Wednesday to 105,000. Figures hit a peak of 120,000 per day on June 6.
The test positivity rate — proportion of swabs that pick up the virus
New data from the first US states hit by Omicron suggest their latest COVID surge has peaked and that cases could soon fall sharply.
Data from Johns Hopkins University shows that New York, New Jersey and Maryland have all seen seven day-average cases drop in recent days. Deaths have spiked by 20 per cent in a fortnight to around 1,820 a day, but still sit far below the peaks of winter 2020, even though more COVID infections are being recorded.
London’s Covid cases are slowing down just a month after the Omicron variant took hold, according to the country’s largest symptom-tracking app.
The finding is the latest piece of evidence that the capital’s outbreaks is peaking and comes as daily Covid hospital admissions fell for the fourth day in a row.
The symptom study, led by King’s College London scientists, estimated 33,000 were testing positive in the capital each day in the week to January 3, down a third on
England’s third Covid wave may have already peaked, more official data suggested today as a swathe of statistics pointed to a slowing epidemic.
The Office for National Statistics’ (ONS) weekly surveillance report estimated 1.1million people were infected with the virus at any time in the week to October 30 — the equivalent of one in 50. This was approximately the same as the previous seven-day spell, bringing an end to nearly three months of rising cases which began in August.
