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Relatives of care home residents will be treated as key workers and get tested for Covid-19 weekly to enable safe visits as part of a new trial. Health minister Helen Whately today told MPs a pilot scheme would be launched ‘shortly’ to see if the strategy would work. In a meeting with MPs today, she … Read more
Quarantine for people returning to the UK will be slashed to seven days under a radical overhaul of the Government’s coronavirus travel ban. Grant Shapps told the virtual ABTA travel industry conference today that travellers will self-isolate at home and take a Covid test a week after landing. The Transport Secretary ruled out testing on … Read more
Quarantine for people returning to the UK slashed to SEVEN days: Travellers will have to take a test but two-week isolation is over, Shapps reveals By Jack Wright For Mailonline Published: 16:43 BST, 14 October 2020 | Updated: 16:51 BST, 14 October 2020 Travellers will self-isolate at home and take a coronavirus test a week … Read more
Liverpool’s biggest hospitals are only 10 per cent closer to capacity than normal for October, official data has revealed. The city’s NHS critical care beds are usually 85 per cent full at this time of year, with 51 out of 60 beds occupied across three hospitals, according to NHS England data from the past six … Read more
A labourer who lost his income during lockdown pulled out two of his own teeth with pliers and downed eight cans of Stella Artois to numb the pain because he couldn’t get a dental appointment due to the coronavirus crisis. Chris Savage, 42, resorted to yanking two of his own teeth out in his bedroom … Read more
Britain today recorded more than 100 coronavirus deaths for the first time in four months as officials announced 143 more victims. Department of Health statistics show the grim milestone hadn’t been hit since June 17, when 110 lab-confirmed fatalities were added to the tally. For comparison, 76 deaths were registered last Tuesday as well as … Read more
Hospitals across England are cancelling routine operations to make way for a surge in coronavirus patients. University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust said it was temporarily pausing non-critical planned surgery at Derriford Hospital, although day case procedures are still going ahead. Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust chief executive Steve Warburton told staff in a memo … Read more
Nine out of 10 people taking coronavirus tests in England have to wait more than 24 hours for their result, despite Boris Johnson’s pledge to turn all swabs around within a day by the start of July. NHS Test & Trace data shows that in the last week of September more than 750,000 people had … Read more
The NHS Covid-19 app has finally been given an update to address the glitch causing phantom notifications which led to widespread alarm among users. England and Wales’s contact-tracing app is based on the software blueprint laid out for free by Apple and Google. Many people have reported receiving bizarre alerts which were said to be … Read more
A rare glimpse inside the coronavirus frontline at NHS hospitals has revealed intensive care units at breaking point as wards fill up. Boris Johnson on Monday warned that the number of coronavirus cases in the UK has ‘quadrupled in the last three weeks’ with today’s daily case total standing at 13,972 – up 11 per cent on … Read more