Britain’s coronavirus daily death toll today stayed below 800 for the fourth day in a row, sparking hopes that the draconian lockdown is working – as experts predicted Britain may have already hit its peak. Health officials announced just 761 more COVID-19 victims in hospitals across the home nations, taking the overall number of fatalities close … Read more
March was the quietest month in A&E since NHS records began because of Britain’s coronavirus crisis, figures today show. Casualty departments in England recorded just 1.53million attendances last month, down 430,000 – 22 per cent – on February. The number is also 630,000 lower (29 per cent) than March 2019, when 2.17million visits were made to … Read more
Two nurses have been amazed at the kindness showed by strangers as they battle coronavirus on the frontlines. A shopper in Pontefract insisted on paying for a maternity-ward nurse’s groceries while in Sussex a stranger raised £705 for for an A&E nurse whose car was broken into while she was working. Luke Welsh, 30, overheard … Read more
Great-grandmother, 106, is thought to be Britain’s oldest patient to recover from coronavirus as she is discharged from hospital Connie Titchen was first admitted to Birmingham City Hospital in mid-March Staff thought she had pneumonia but was diagnosed with Covid-19 soon after Retired shop worker said she feels ‘very lucky’ and ‘can’t wait to see … Read more
The Government’s target of 100,000 coronavirus tests per day could be hit by a single company which will make tests in the UK, the firm claims. Thermo Fisher Scientific, a company based in the US state of Massachusetts, said it has the capacity to supply all of the 700,000 tests per week. It will work … Read more
World War II hero Captain Tom Moore has raised more than £6million for the ‘brave nurses and doctors’ of the NHS by marching around his garden on a zimmer frame. The 99-year-old had initially set out to raise £1,000 by walking 100 lengths of his 27-yard garden in Bedfordshire – but he has now smashed … Read more
What is the coronavirus? A coronavirus is a type of virus which can cause illness in animals and people. Viruses break into cells inside their host and use them to reproduce itself and disrupt the body’s normal functions. Coronaviruses are named after the Latin word ‘corona’, which means crown, because they are encased by a … Read more
The billionaire Duke of Westminster has pledged £12.5million to help the NHS in its fight against coronavirus. Landowner Hugh Grosvenor, 29, is the richest person under the age of 30 in the world with an estimated worth of £10.1billion. A close friend of the royal family’s, he is Prince George’s godfather and owns 200 acres … Read more
‘I begged the paramedic, but they left’: Husband of Filipino nurse, 50, who worked for NHS for 18 years tells how ambulance crew refused to take her to hospital… nine days before she died of coronavirus after he drove her himself Amor Padilla Gatinao was a nurse at St Charles Hospital in west London Her … Read more
Rishi Sunak tonight warned of ‘more tough times to come’ amid warnings the economy faces shrinking by more than a third this quarter with two million people made jobless. The Chancellor said people should brace for ‘hardship’ as he insisted the hit from the lockdown measures designed to combat the deadly coronavirus would be ‘temporary’. … Read more