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Hundreds of thousands of vulnerable Britons may need to shield indoors for months and measures to curb coronavirus will be likely until at least April to stop the NHS from imploding as winter looms. Advice for clinically at-risk people to avoid contact with others could be included in the top tier of a ‘traffic light’ … Read more
Hundreds of thousands of vulnerable Britons may need to shield indoors for months and measures to curb coronavirus will be likely until at least April to stop the NHS from imploding as winter looms. Advice for clinically at-risk people to avoid contact with others could be included in the top tier of a ‘traffic light’ … Read more
Matt Hancock warns the UK is at a ‘perilous moment’ in the fight against coronavirus and says lockdowns will be a part of life ‘until a vaccine can make us safe’ Matt Hancock today warned UK is at a ‘perilous moment’ in fight against virus He said suppression of Covid-19 is required ‘until a vaccine … Read more
NHS hospitals in Blackpool are treating up to 65 per cent as many patients as they were at the peak of the outbreak in April, statistics show. In Newcastle and Liverpool, admission rates are nudging closer to numbers not seen for six months as the second wave of Covid-19 rips through the North of England. … Read more
Apple, Google and the UK Department for Health have still not fixed a glitch in the NHS Covid-19 app, which has resulted in thousands of users receiving phantom ‘exposure notifications’. The alerts have been popping up on both iOS and Android devices since last week, with the title: ‘Possible COVID-19 exposure’, ‘COVID-19 EXPOSURE LOGGING’ or ‘COVID-19 … Read more
The NHS will be unable to cope if coronavirus infection rates across the country continue to rise, medical leaders have warned. Dr Helen Stokes-Lampard, the chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges which represents the UK and Ireland’s 24 medical royal colleges, said that people need to strictly follow restrictions or the NHS could be … Read more
The NHS will be unable to cope if coronavirus infection rates across the country continue to rise, medical leaders have warned. Dr Helen Stokes-Lampard, the chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges which represents the UK and Ireland’s 24 medical royal colleges, said that people need to strictly follow restrictions or the NHS could be … Read more
Thousands of patients suffering with ‘long-covid’ will be offered specialist help at rehabilitation clinics across England, the head of the NHS has announced. Sir Simon Stevens said £10m would be invested this year in setting up the one-stop shop services for physical and mental health issues caused by coronavirus. He estimated ‘hundreds of thousands’ of … Read more
Thousands of patients suffering with ‘long-covid’ will be offered specialist help at rehabilitation clinics across England, the head of the NHS has announced. Sir Simon Stevens said £10m would be invested this year in setting up the one-stop shop services for physical and mental health issues caused by coronavirus. He estimated ‘hundreds of thousands’ of … Read more
Almost 90 per cent of Covid-19 patients don’t have any of the three main symptoms of the disease on the day they are tested, scientists have revealed. Researchers analysed data from 36,000 volunteers who were swabbed for the virus between the end of April, a month after lockdown began, and end of June. But just … Read more