The UK has recorded more deaths from the coronavirus than any other European country with the latest official government figure reaching 29,427. Foreign secretary Dominic Raab said the number is a “massive tragedy” that the country “has never seen before…on this scale, in this way”. Only the United States has recorded a higher number but […]
The government has pledged £76m to fund measures to support domestic abuse survivors, children and rough sleepers during the coronavirus crisis. The package includes money to provide safe spaces and fund helplines for “the hidden thousands for whom the current lockdown has been nothing short of an inescapable nightmare,” said the justice secretary Robert Buckland, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Boris Johnson’s government has resumed Brexit talks with the European Union after several rounds of meetings had to be cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Scottish government has called for a two year extension to the transition period as the clock ticks ever closer to the official December 31 deadline, when the transition period […]
The Prime Minister Boris Johnson and health secretary Matt Hancock have both tested positive for Covid-19 as the coronavirus strikes at the heart of the British government. The chief medical doctor Prof Chris Whitty is also in isolation “with clear symptoms”, following the announcement at the weekend that the head of Public Health England, Duncan […]
Prince Charles, heir to the British throne has tested positive for coronavirus after being checked for the disease in Scotland. The 71-year-old Prince of Wales is reported to have a “mild” form of the illness that has so far infected more than 8,200 people in the UK, with 435 dying with coronavirus. Charles is self-isolating […]
After days of anticipation, the government finally announced yesterday that the UK is now in the delay phase. But if you were hoping for severer measures in the government’s coronavirus action plan, you must have been disappointed. Thursday’s Cobra meeting ran well into the afternoon. When Ireland decided to close all schools and colleges and […]
Health minister Nadine Dorries has become the first MP to test positive for the coronavirus prompting questions as to why the Commons has not closed in line with medical surgeries, businesses and schools that have all shut down premises in response to Covid-19. The health minister’s diagnosis is “prompting concerns about the potential spread of […]