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Around 14 per cent of coronavirus patients tested positive a second time in one Chinese region despite being given the all clear. A health official in Guangdong Province told The New York Times that the patients had been discharged from hospital after testing negative for the virus but then fell ill again later. It follows reports in Japan of … Read more
Someone who is infected with the coronavirus can spread it with just a simple cough or a sneeze, scientists say. Nearly 3,000 people with the virus are now confirmed to have died and more than 80,000 have been infected. Here’s what we know so far: What is the coronavirus? A coronavirus is a type of … Read more
Britain First leader Paul Golding has today denied a terrorism offence after he was arrested by anti-terror police at Heathrow on his way back from a trip to Russia. Golding, 38, is accused of refusing to provide officers from the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command access to his electronic devices last October. The former BNP councillor, … Read more
Trials are underway allowing Hermes delivery drivers to unlock cars using their mobile phone and deliver packages inside the boot while motorists are away. Volkswagen has partnered with the courier to trial its car-boot delivery service in Milton Keynes and is hoping have the service available nationwide later this year. Couriers are given a single-use, time-specific … Read more
Olympic javelin thrower, 26, from Argentina dies in a motorcycle crash months before he hoped to compete in the Tokyo games Braian Toledo died in a motorcycle accident in Marco Paz, Argentina Police said Toledo drove over a speed bump and crashed into two palm trees The 26-year-old javelin thrower was pronounced dead at the scene … Read more
Bodies of woman, 68, and man, 44, are found at a house in Sunderland in ‘suspected murder-suicide’ Concern was raised for woman before she was found dead yesterday Police are treating her death as murder but no-one else believed to be involved Detectives say the two people found dead were known to each other Do … Read more
These dramatic aerial photographs show how a picture postcard village in the Malvern Hills of Worcestershire has been overwhelmed by severe flooding from the River Severn with residents left homeless. The isolated area of Severn Stoke, which has a population of about 600 people, has been deluged after the river broke its banks following heavy … Read more
Britain questions Iran over welfare of imprisoned Briton Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe as the Tehran regime denies claims her brutal jail has been struck by a coronavirus outbreak Jacob Rees-Mogg said the UK ambassador was speaking to Tehran authorities Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been behind bars for four years on fake spying charges Islamic regime denies Evin prison … Read more
The Foreign Office said today it had ‘no plans’ to fly British tourists home from their hotel lockdown in Tenerife. The 168 Britons at the resort had their hopes raised on Thursday when Canary Islands officials said they were in talks with foreign diplomats about a possible flight. Some guests had pleaded with Boris Johnson … Read more
The head of the World Health Organisation today told governments to ‘act aggressively’ to contain the global coronavirus crisis. Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the major virus outbreaks in Iran and Italy in recent days ‘demonstrate what this virus is capable of’. The global health chief warned that it would be a ‘fatal mistake, quite literally’ … Read more