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
Fears grow for thousands of Brits’ holiday plans after World Health Organisation warns the Balkans is a ‘hotspot’ for coronavirus as Croatia is poised to be put on UK’s quarantine travel list TOMORROW WHO said Balkans regions was ‘very much a sub-regional hotspot’ over summer WHO said the region needed to ‘nip transmission in the … Read more
House of Fraser owner Frasers Group has warned that further department store closures could be on the cards amid dwindling profits and lower in-store shopper numbers. Frasers, which is owned by Mike Ashley, said in its delayed results today: ‘There are anticipated to be further closures over the coming period, the number of which will … Read more
Top universities have called on the Government for additional funds to take on more students and for the cap on the number of pupils studying medicine to be lifted amid fears ministers face a £3billion bailout. Thousands of students are scrambling to get places at their first choice university after ministers screeching u-turn on A-Level … Read more
Tony Blair today warned the UK is ‘running out of time’ to roll out a mass coronavirus testing programme as he said a second wave of the disease would force ministers to choose between the economy and people’s lives. The former prime minister has long advocated routine testing of the whole population – even people … Read more
Doctors’ training ‘is racist as it warns of patients turning blue’, medical school claims Teaching focuses on how illnesses affect white people, such as ‘turning blue’ Students said they felt ill-prepared to treat ethnic minority patients Many students may not see common skin conditions on darker skin tones By Helena Kelly For The Daily Mail … Read more
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a warning that a coronavirus test kit may return ‘inaccurate results.’ Health officials said on Monday there are two issues with the TaqPath COVID-19 Combo Kit produced by laboratory equipment company Thermo Fisher Scientific. Firstly, the test, which detects the virus in respiratory samples, has had numerous complaints of false positive … Read more
Former Married At First Sight bride Stacey Hampton is not happy after someone leaked incriminating text messages in which she boasted of her attempt to bypass COVID-19 travel restrictions by pretending to be an essential worker. The law graduate shared a meme to Instagram Stories on Saturday about ‘snitches’ getting their comeuppance – seemingly in … Read more
Patrick Dardis, the chief executive of pub group Young’s, is calling time on working from home. Last Monday, he took an evening stroll through Central London and found the deserted streets such a ‘scary sight’ he is determined to galvanise the Government into getting Britain back to work. ‘It was still really depressing in Holborn, … Read more
Lloyds warns that second wave of coronavirus cases could send UK into double-dip recession By Helen Cahill, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:58 BST, 15 August 2020 | Updated: 21:58 BST, 15 August 2020 Lloyds has warned that a second wave of Covid-19 cases could send the UK into a double-dip recession. Angus Armstrong, chief … Read more