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Just Eat will stop using gig economy workers to deliver food and instead use staff with more workplace protection, firm’s boss says Jitse Groen, chief exec of Dutch food delivery giant, wants to ‘insure our people’ Gig workers operate on flexible hours and do not enjoy rights such as sick pay or minimum notice periods … Read more

Ministers have quietly wiped 1.3million Covid-19 swabs off the official testing count, it emerged today. Number 10 has repeatedly boasted about the number of tests it is capable of doing – with capacity now reportedly at around 340,000 per day. But the government has now admitted a staggering one in 10 coronavirus tests were counted … Read more

A Nottinghamshire district was today added to the government’s Covid-19 hotspot watchlist amid a spike in cases.  Public Health England announced Newark and Sherwood, home to around 120,000 people, is now an ‘area of concern’. Around 26.3 coronavirus cases were diagnosed for every 100,000 people living in the district in the week ending August 11 … Read more

A Nottinghamshire district was today added to the government’s Covid-19 hotspot watchlist amid a spike in cases.  Public Health England announced Newark and Sherwood, home to around 120,000 people, is now an ‘area of concern’. Around 26.3 coronavirus cases were diagnosed for every 100,000 people living in the district in the week ending August 11 … Read more

Covid-19 cases could be missed if people are screened for a fever in the morning, scientists have warned.   US experts found flu patients were 44 per cent less likely to have a temperature in the early hours of the day, compared with the afternoon to evening. Researchers analysed a decade’s worth of data from almost … Read more