The UK must stick to the two-metre social distancing rule as reducing it to one-metre could increase the risk of infection tenfold, Government advisers have been warned. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is facing calls to halve the recommended contact distance in order to allow businesses such as pubs and restaurants to reopen. However, the Environmental … Read more
Bring out the wellies: city dwellers are finally finding an excuse to make that long-postponed escape to the country. As many realise — thanks to the lockdown — that they can work just as easily from home, demand for properties in rural areas has soared. A recent report by estate agent Savills found four in … Read more
When the BBC asked me back in the mid-Seventies to leave the United States and open a television news bureau in South Africa, I knew exactly what I would not do. I would not become one of those ghastly privileged whites who expressed their disgust for apartheid but enjoyed its benefits. I would not, for a … Read more
The new Covid timebomb: ‘Knock-on’ health fears as one in four Britons have medical care postponed because of the virus A Daily Mail poll has looked into healthcare and the personal effect of lockdown The findings show a delay in hospital operations and GP and dental treatment One fifth of patients delayed appointments due to … Read more
Popular historian and bestselling author Tom Holland said many Britons will regard the boarding up of Winston Churchill’s statue as ‘sinister’ after it was covered to protect it from further attacks. Mr Holland, 52, also claimed the sight of locals in Poole, Dorset, needing to defend the statue of founder of the Scouting movement Robert Baden-Powell … Read more
Only one in three Britons are still worried about catching COVID-19, study finds Ongoing UCL-led study assesses the nation’s mood as Britain battles COVID-19 Found that the general public are becoming less worried by the coronavirus Now, only one in three say they are worried about catching the virus and only 15 per cent of people … Read more
Brits are still being denied private coronavirus antibody tests more than a fortnight after blood samples taken from the finger were temporarily banned by the health watchdog. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) — a branch of the Department of Health — pulled the home testing kits, which check if someone has previously … Read more
Britons have been left baffled by Boris Johnson‘s latest coronavirus lockdown plan for ‘support bubbles’ as they worked out whether they could visit relatives. The plans mean couples could be reunited after being kept apart by restrictions and some grandparents will be able to hug their grandchildren from Saturday. But many people hve since taken … Read more
Releasing Britons from lockdown in two batches is the best exit strategy to reduce deaths and and protect the economy, scientists claim. Researchers led by University of Oxford said half the population should be released four months before the rest because everyone at once is ‘too risky’. The team suggest young people, who are less … Read more
Professor Lucy Yardley, of Bristol and Southampton universities, suggested setting up South Korean-style quarantine hotels to clamp down on people flouting self-isolation rules Britons tracked down by contact tracers should be put up in quarantine hotels to clamp down on the tens of thousands of people flouting coronavirus self-isolation rules, one of Number 10‘s scientific advisers … Read more