A few short weeks into coronavirus restrictions, people are getting restless. Apart from the devastating economic effect of the lockdown, its impact on mental health, victims of domestic abuse, and people suffering from non-COVID19 illnesses have been devastating. Already, authorities in many European countries have begun easing restrictions, and in the UK, too, experts are […]
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Flag carrier British Airways Public Limited Company is set to lay off thousands of its employees amid the huge drop in air travel demand over fears of the coronavirus outbreak. The company revealed in a letter to the British Airline Pilots Association (BALPA) Union on Tuesday that it would let go of 1,130 flight captains […]
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The nation stood for a minute’s silence at 11am this morning (Tuesday) to honour the key workers who lost their lives in the fight against the coronavirus. Last night the national broadcaster exposed the government’s abject failings to adequately prepare the country for a pandemic, specifically their continued failure to arm key workers with adequate […]
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UK doctors have issued an “urgent alert” about a coronavirus-related condition emerging in children that requires intensive care treatment. The alert has been sent to GPs and states that in the “last three weeks, there has been an apparent rise in the number of children of all ages presenting with a multisystem inflammatory state requiring […]
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The UK government is offering government-backed rescue loans to small businesses that took a beating from the global pandemic. The plan came after calls on the government to revamp its emergency loan scheme following denied support for thousands of cash-starved firms. Chancellor Rishi Sunak said small businesses are guaranteed of bounce-back loans with full backing […]
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The government has called in the military to test essential workers for coronavirus in a bid to hit their 100,000 tests a day target by Thursday. Military mobile units are already operating in some of the UK’s “hard to reach” areas, with plans to expand the number to “at least 96 new pop-up facilities” travelling […]
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Key worker tests for coronavirus have run out for a second day running as the government announced the UK’s official death toll from the disease passed 20,000. The latest figures report a total 20,319 deaths of hospital patients in the UK – a rise of 813 on the previous day, with home secretary Priti Patel […]
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Scotland’s first minister Nicola Sturgeon has warned social distancing measures put in place to fight the coronavirus pandemic could extend into 2021. Sturgeon said a return to “the normal life that people knew” was “not on the cards in the near future” during the Scottish government’s daily press briefing in Edinburgh. The first minister published […]
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Amid fears that the true death toll of coronavirus patients remains unclear, the ONS COVID-19 figures go some way toward revealing the true picture. Care staff workers say the actual numbers may be far higher. According to Tuesday’s ONS statistics, the number of people who died from the novel coronavirus in the week leading up […]
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Human trials on a coronavirus vaccine will begin in the UK this week, with researchers appealing for volunteers to take part. Two research teams from Oxford University and Imperial College London have been promised £42.5 million of government funding, with Matt Hancock calling the search for a vaccine, “the top priority”. The health secretary pledged […]
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