Matt Hancock has confirmed the government is considering closing England’s pubs by the weekend as its chief medical officer and top scientist issued a grim warning for the UK. Chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Valance and Prof Chris Whitty today announced the UK is facing 50,000 Covid cases a day by the middle of October […]
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Anti-lockdown protestors have gathered at Trafalgar Square as the prime minister toils in Downing Street to devise a response to alarming rises in Covid-19. Police have clashed with anti-maskers, anti-vaxxers, 5G conspiracists, pro-cannabis activists and anti-lockdown protestors in London who have congregated in their thousands for today’s “Resist and Act For Freedom” rally in the […]
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Coronavirus rules and restrictions are proving even more divisive than Brexit in Britain, according to a poll of 10,000 people carried out across the UK. Demos has found that animosity between people who stick to the coronavirus rules and those who do not runs even deeper than the animosity felt between Brexit ‘Leavers’ and EU […]
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Among the many lingering maladies caused by Covid-19 and causing increasing concern to medics and scientists is the effect of the virus on the brain. Patients around the world have been found to have a range of conditions related to their neurological functioning, including confusion, trouble focusing and changes in behaviour. The associate director of […]
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A patients’ charity has accused parliamentary authorities of censorship following the rejection of a petition highlighting the reduced level of NHS care for non-Covid patients during the pandemic. Action against Medical Accidents (AvMA) – a widely respected charity for patient safety and justice – submitted the petition two months ago and said lives have been […]
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There is something rotten in the state of the UK and the man at the top of it is absent, reportedly in Scotland, uttering perhaps that “fair is foul and foul is fair” while bouncing his bonny baby on his knee. We were warned about Boris Johnson and yet the British electorate handed him a […]
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Just eight months after securing an historic majority in the Commons, speculation is mounting as to how long Boris Johnson will remain in Number 10. Events have long since taken over the political agenda from Johnson and his Machiavellian chief advisor Dominic Cummings, neither of whom have seemed up to the task of effectively leading […]
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Revolutionary new 90 minute tests for Covid-19 have been hailed as the latest potential ‘game-changer’ in the battle against the virus. The government plans to have more than one million daily tests by the winter and ministers hope the speed and portability of the new tests will help prevent the need for another national lockdown. […]
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Boris Johnson has announced the government is putting the “brake” on easing lockdown restrictions in England that were due to come into effect tomorrow (August 1). At a surprise press conference today – and following on from last night’s surprise lockdown tightening in northern England – Johnson said it was time to “squeeze that brake […]
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Matt Hancock has announced new lockdown restrictions to be imposed in parts of northern England from midnight tonight (Thursday) due to a surge in coronavirus cases in the areas. The health secretary’s surprise statement came only hours after the prime minister had urged the public not to “delude” themselves into thinking “that we are […]
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