A further 1,288 people have been diagnosed with Covid-19 in the UK today, marking the biggest Saturday rise in eight weeks. Some 18 more people have died from the killer disease across all settings – including care homes, hospitals and the wider community – bring the UK’s total death toll to 41,423. Today has brought the … Read more
Britain could go into a second national lockdown if cases start to dramatically rise like in European countries including Spain, a senior official has warned – while the nation’s R-rate is feared to be as high as 1.1 and households in Oldham and Blackburn are banned from meeting in each others’ homes. More ‘nationwide measures’ … Read more
Apple, which is the world’s most valuable company after breaking through the $2trillion mark, is also worth more than the value of all companies listed on the FTSE 100 index. That means the iPhone maker, which in sterling terms has a market cap of £1.5trillion, is worth 20 times more than Unilever and Astrazeneca, the … Read more
France recorded another sharp rise is coronavirus cases yesterday with 4,700 infections – up by a thousand – while Italy has seen its highest daily tally since May. There have also been worrying spikes in Spain, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Croatia – much of it blamed on holidaying Europeans and youngsters enjoying parties in the summer … Read more
Flights to Portugal have risen sixfold, but hotels have slashed prices as Britons plan a late summer getaway now the country is back on the UK’s ‘green list’. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps announced yesterday that quarantine will not be required on return to the UK from Portugal, leaving travel companies expecting a surge in bookings … Read more
UK inflation jumped to its highest level for four months in July, fuelled by the largest hike in fuel prices for nearly a decade and a drop in clothing discounts by struggling retailers. Price increases by hairdressers, dentists and other services which had to invest in extensive PPE also powered the July increase in Consumer Prices … Read more
Don’t be a student sucker: Youngsters warned over offers of ‘easy money’ as more are tempted into laundering cash for criminals via current accounts Reporting body Cifas said there were a record 364,000 reports of fraud in 2019 A large proportion of these were cases of suspected ‘money muling’ This is where people are convinced … Read more
England’s Covid outbreak ISN’T spiralling out of control: ONS now estimates 3,800 people are getting infected each day – up from last week’s claim of 3,700 (and one in 1,900 are currently infected) Prevalence of the virus is mostly unchanged since last week, statistics show Office for National Statistics report says 0.05 per cent of … Read more
The UK updated its travel ‘green list’ on Tuesday, but did not take Portugal off the quarantine list, amid fears that France could soon join it as hospitalisations and cases rise. In a blow to the Portuguese economy that benefits greatly from tourism from the UK, the UK Government was warned that cases in Portugal … Read more
The number of children being diagnosed with coronavirus soared by 90 per cent in four weeks while the number in hospital rose 70 per cent, new figures show. On July 9, there were 200,184 children who had been diagnosed with the virus in the US, the American Academy of Pediatrics reported, and 1,948 who were … Read more