Warrington will move into Tier 3 ‘next week’, local bosses claim, after agreeing to a £5million support package for businesses that will be forced to close. Discussions concluded this morning with restrictions including the closure of pubs set to come into force potentially by Thursday or Friday, local media report. Hospital capacity is beginning to … Read more
Analysing SEWAGE for traces of coronavirus is helping UK officials track the spread of the disease in areas with limited testing Programme was set up to provide an early warning system of escalating cases This is because it takes days for symptoms to appear and tests to be completed And today DEFRA said it had … Read more
Boris Johnson admits his government failed on Test and Trace and the system ‘needs improvement’ with just one-in-seven getting results in a day and fewer than 60% of contacts found Boris Johnson said Test and Trace ‘needs improvement’ after performance slump Fewer than six-in-ten contacts are now tracked down, well below the 80% target And … Read more
The proportion of children with mental health issues is 50 per cent higher than before the pandemic, an NHS study revealed yesterday. It found that one in six youngsters now had a condition such as anxiety, depression or loneliness. Experts said the figures were ‘deeply distressing’ and blamed the closure of schools and worries over … Read more
A 27-year-old nurse with a heart condition suddenly collapsed and died in front of her boyfriend after drinking with friends at a post-lockdown birthday celebration, an inquest heard. Luci Young, from West Molesey, Surrey, was celebrating a friend’s birthday at a garden party in nearby Cobham on July 12 when she slumped forward in her … Read more
Stoke-on-Trent, Coventry and Slough will move into a Tier 2 lockdown on Saturday, Matt Hancock revealed today amid fears Nottinghamshire’s restrictions will be toughened up. The Health Secretary’s announcement in the House of Commons means another 745,000 people will be stung by tighter restrictions, including a ban on socialising with loved ones indoors. Nearly 40million … Read more
Stoke-on-Trent, Coventry and Slough will move into a Tier 2 lockdown on Saturday, Matt Hancock revealed today amid fears Nottinghamshire’s restrictions will be toughened up. The Health Secretary’s announcement in the House of Commons means another 745,000 people will be stung by tighter restrictions, including a ban on socialising with loved ones indoors. Nearly 40million … Read more
The NHS Nightingale Hospital in Manchester will reopen in the next week as the city heads into a local lockdown. A local NHS boss today announced the temporary hospital, set up in the Manchester Central Conference Centre, will be brought back into use before the end of next week. It will become the first one … Read more
More than 1,000 Cardiff University students and three staff have reported testing positive for coronavirus with the NHS since the start of October and more than 2,000 are currently self isolating. University figures show 730 students and three staff have reported failing an NHS test and the university’s own in-house asymptomatic test service has identified … Read more
Liverpool’s hospitals are treating more coronavirus patients now than they were at the peak of the crisis, it was claimed today. The medical director of the biggest NHS trust in the city said beds occupied by Covid-19 patients had already surpassed levels in April and that they were ‘continuing to rise’. Dr Tristan Cope, of … Read more