How Chile’s new Covid spike proves England’s cautious roadmap is the right route out of this crisis

Things are going according to plan. Despite a few wobbles about vanishingly small blood-clot risks, our vaccine rollout charges forward. And tomorrow we will enter the next phase of our roadmap to freedom. But at the Downing Street press conference last Monday, England’s Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty was circumspect. Moving ‘steadily’ was key, he … Read more

Sadiq Khan urges Boris Johnson to be cautious easing Covid lockdown

Sadiq Khan wants a LONGER lockdown: Mayor of London demands Boris Johnson reject calls from Tory MPs for swift easing of national rules – despite experts saying PM can move faster and infection rates halving every two weeks Boris Johnson will unveil his formal lockdown exit strategy on Monday next week PM is under growing … Read more

Boris Johnson: UK will make ‘cautious’ progress out of lockdown

Boris Johnson today insisted he wants the UK to make ‘cautious but irreversible’ progress when lockdown starts to be lifted as he prepares to unveil his exit strategy on Monday next week.  The Prime Minister, who will hold a Downing Street press conference at 5pm, said the roadmap out of lockdown will include specific target … Read more

NHS boss urges ‘cautious’ approach to lifting lockdown as hospitals remain stretched

NHS boss urges ‘cautious’ approach to lifting lockdown as hospitals remain stretched despite drop in cases NHS Providers chief executive Chris Hopson warned against easing restrictions  He said there were still 26,000 patients currently fighting Covid-19 in hospital  Stretched capacity has forced frontline staff to work ‘at fever pitch intensity’  By Jack Elsom For Mailonline … Read more

HENRY DEEDES watches ‘Captain Cautious’ Chris Whitty deliver more Christmas gloom 

If it were left to Captain Cautious we’d eat turkey with Swarfega: HENRY DEEDES watches Chris Whitty deliver more Christmas gloom By Henry Deedes for the Daily Mail Published: 22:54 GMT, 16 December 2020 | Updated: 00:08 GMT, 17 December 2020 Boris Johnson looked as though he had been forced to swallow a three-day-old sardine. … Read more

Jet2 cautious for 2021 as it reveals a first-half loss of £111.2m

Jet2 cautious for 2021 as it reveals a first-half loss of £111.2m with just 900,000 passengers flying compared to more than 10m a year earlier By City & Finance Reporter for the Daily Mail Published: 21:21 GMT, 19 November 2020 | Updated: 21:21 GMT, 19 November 2020 Jet2 has revealed a first-half loss and cautioned … Read more

Coronavirus: UK scientist says risk of reinfection is ‘low’ but people should still be cautious

Can you catch Covid twice? Top scientist says risk is ‘low’ but admits as many as 10% of recovered patients could get the virus again as self-isolating Boris Johnson claims he’s ‘bursting with antibodies’ Imperial College’s Danny Altmann said recovered patients ‘should not be blasé’  Scientists have found ‘hard confirmed’ cases of people infected twice … Read more

Rishi Sunak’s new coronavirus bailout: Chancellor upstages a cautious Prime Minister

Britain can no longer put normal life on hold, Rishi Sunak warned yesterday. As he unveiled his latest rescue package to save jobs, the Chancellor called on the nation to learn to live with coronavirus ‘without fear’. He added that the country could not carry on ignoring the economic impact of the pandemic. Striking a different … Read more

How dreary! HENRY DEEDES watches party pooper PM and his Captain Cautious halt lockdown easing 

The Prime Minister raised a chubby paw aloft like an overzealous lollipop lady and announced in that peculiarly elastic voice he was calling things to a halt. His easing of lockdown, which he’d moved along at a lickety-split pace these past few weeks, was being stopped dead in its tracks. ‘We should squeeze that brake … Read more