Intensive care units at Liverpool’s biggest NHS trust are no busier than normal for this time of year, it emerged today. Councillor Paul Brant sparked fears yesterday after claiming the city’s critical-care units were already 95 per cent full and ‘filling up very fast’ amid a spike in Covid-19 cases. But Liverpool University Hospitals NHS … Read more
Nicolas Eaton (pictured), from Hailsham, East Sussex, was found dead at home by one of his sons in November last year A grandfather died after a pharmacy perscription told him to take ten times the appropriate amount of pain medication, an inquest heard. Nicholas Eaton had been placed on methadone in addition to his regular medication … Read more
Britons drank alcohol more than usual during lockdown but there was a rise in the number of people who gave up cigarettes, research has revealed. One in six people admitted binge drinking at least once a week in April, during the darkest days of the crisis, up from one in 10 before the pandemic reached … Read more
EXCLUSIVE: Rylan Clark-Neal assures it’s ‘business as usual’ on Strictly and that ‘it’s still the show we all love’ despite COVID-19 forcing big changes By Andrew Bullock For Mailonline Published: 01:27 BST, 2 September 2020 | Updated: 01:34 BST, 2 September 2020 Rylan Clark-Neal – who co-hosts Strictly Come Dancing sister show It Takes Two … Read more
Data from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention has revealed there has been 200,700 excess deaths during the pandemic – surpassing the confirmed 161,000 COVID-19 death toll. In August, the United States continued to amass the largest COVID-19 death toll across the world and the number topped 161,000 this week. But according to a … Read more
Chrissy Teigen looks stunning as usual as she reads The Giving Tree to her kids Luna, 4, and Miles, 2: ‘Saddest children’s book known to man’ By Dan Heching For Dailymail.com Published: 04:09 BST, 4 August 2020 | Updated: 04:12 BST, 4 August 2020 She’s an active and devoted mother who documents the majority of … Read more
NHS hospitals are warned they will face a fine if they are not at 90% of their usual capacity levels by October Sir Simon Stevens said services must aim to deliver increase in care in hospitals Sets out plans to address as much of NHS’s waiting list as possible before winter Thousands of non-urgent operations … Read more
Prescriptions for two anti-malaria drugs to treat the novel coronavirus soared by hundreds of thousands in March, a new study suggests. Typically, only about 380,000 people are prescribed hydroxychloroquine and its analog chloroquine to treat malaria, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis. However, in March, President Donald Trump hailed the drug, which also is used to treat arthritis … Read more
Animal baby boom at Palestinian zoo after visitors disappeared: Triple the number of babies were born during lockdown as usual Fifteen animals were born at Qalqilya Zoo in the Israeli-occupied West Bank An ostrich produced 11 eggs ‘because there weren’t people around her’ The zoo reopened in late May as COVID-19 restrictions eased Here’s how to … Read more
Welcome to the post-Covid hotel: Next month can’t come soon enough for UK hoteliers – but it won’t exactly be business as usual Hotels are preparing to welcome back guests with three-quarters saying they are ready to open on July 4 Check-in times are likely to be staggered, or set later in the afternoon, to … Read more