Russian doctor falls to her death from hospital window ‘after being blamed for spread of Covid-19 at cosmonaut training facility’ – days after medic who reported PPE shortages also plunged from a window Natalya Lebedeva was accused of failing to stop an outbreak, colleagues claim She was involved in treating the city’s ‘patient zero’, a … Read more
A senior doctor in Russia plunged 50 ft from her office window during a conference call when she was told her hospital would be forced to take in coronavirus patients, say reports. Dr Yelena Nepomnyashchaya, 47, a mother of two, had objected to the move because of an ‘acute shortage’ of personal protection equipment for … Read more
Badly paid doctors have quit in droves, fearing for their lives after being told to treat coronavirus patients without adequate protective equipment in a chronically underfunded health system. Ambulances crews queue for hours to deliver patients to overloaded hospitals where medical staff have run out of oxygen – yet desperately needed ventilators have been bought … Read more
Russia is preparing for a major increase in coronavirus cases with regions told to urgently boost available hospital beds and draft in medical students. Infections outside Moscow and its surrounding region have soared 110 per cent in the past week. And the authorities are scrambling deal with a 31-fold increase in a fortnight at a … Read more
TEEN & YOUNG ADULT By Sally Morris for the Daily Mail Published: 22:00 BST, 23 April 2020 | Updated: 22:00 BST, 23 April 2020 BURN by Patrick Ness (Walker £12.99, 480 pp) BURN by Patrick Ness (Walker £12.99, 480 pp) It’s 1957 and the Cold War between Russia and America provides a tense backdrop of … Read more
Elle Fanning gives the FINGER on the poster for Hulu’s highly-fictionalized biopic on Catherine the Great By Cassie Carpenter For Dailymail.com Published: 23:43 BST, 23 April 2020 | Updated: 23:43 BST, 23 April 2020 SAG Award nominee Elle Fanning gave the middle finger on the poster for Hulu’s 10-episode satirical comedy miniseries on Catherine the … Read more
It is an issue troubling some of the greatest minds in the world at the moment, from Bill Gates to Elon Musk. SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk described AI as our ‘biggest existential threat’ and likened its development as ‘summoning the demon’. He believes super intelligent machines could use humans as pets. Professor Stephen … Read more
Oil price higher amid scepticism over production deal between Opec and Russia By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 BST, 13 April 2020 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 13 April 2020 The oil price rose just 0.46 per cent yesterday after Opec and Russia agreed the largest-ever production cuts. Supply has been slashed by … Read more