Thousands of anti-lockdown protestors defied the government and Covid restrictions to take to London’s streets today, with at least 33 arrested by the Metropolitan Police after “ugly clashes”. Huge protests in Manchester passed without any arrests reported though the city centre was brought to a standstill by demonstrators against the new policing bill, violence against […]
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Boris Johnson has laid out England’s exit from lockdown, declaring “the end is in sight” on the day the UK passed 129,498 deaths of people with Covid-19. The prime minister’s “cautious but also irreversible” road map out of lockdown is, he hopes, a “one way road to freedom” where even nightclubs could be open on […]
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The government has been warned by a member of its Sage panel of experts, that lifting lockdown next month would be a “disaster” that puts the “NHS under enormous pressure again.” Prof John Edmunds also said that the highly infectious Covid variant detected in Manaus, Brazil is probably already in the UK, although no cases […]
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Sir Keir Starmer has called on the prime minister to put England into a national lockdown within 24 hours to contain the “out of control” coronavirus as the official death toll for the UK passed 75,000. The Labour leader said Boris Johnson’s dithering has been “the source of many problems” and that the PM needs […]
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The UK has passed a grim Covid-19 milestone with 60,000 deaths passed on Tuesday, according to analysis of official data. The Covid-19 death toll rose by 367 people according to the latest figures announced today by the department of health, marking the highest daily toll since May 27, and bringing the average per-day death count […]
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A computer programme released in the year Tony Blair was elected prime minister is being blamed as the reason some 16,000 positive Covid tests went “missing”. It is a shocking revelation and one that could have devastating consequences for the many infected by Covid – and their contacts, given almost half of the 15,841 cases […]
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