‘A woman from a big household who tested POSITIVE for coronavirus told me to hurry up as she needed to go to work’: Frontline test and trace worker reveals one mother’s troubling approach to self-isolation An NHS caseworker describes how the system continues to face problems In the third week they have rarely experienced such … Read more
Boris Johnson is facing growing questions over the UK’s response to the coronavirus pandemic with Britain’s official death toll now approaching 40,000. It is now 18 weeks since the first cases of coronavirus were confirmed in the UK on January 31. Since then the Government has been repeatedly rocked by rows and blunders as critics … Read more
Interstellar comet Borisov DID survive its closest approach to the Sun in its journey through the Solar System – but partially broke apart in the process Astronomers say the comet ‘partially broke up’ as it reached inner solar system They plan to study the material it left behind to find out more about its makeup … Read more
Unlike the UK and many other countries, Germany never gave up on contact tracing, even as infections ballooned. While Britain’s Ministers stopped trying to keep tabs on new infections on March 12 – believing there was little point as cases were likely to head into the millions – Germany persevered by doggedly pursuing the contacts … Read more
For a moment, imagine you live in a country where Labour won the last General Election and is now masterminding a national response to the coronavirus pandemic. That scenario is certainly in the minds of opponents of Boris Johnson, who have spent the past two months complaining relentlessly about the Government’s handling of this unprecedented … Read more
Most savers with direct or indirect holdings in funds run by Neil Woodford are nursing nasty losses. It is worse than that. Investors in two of the firms that promoted the Woodford cult – investor platform Hargreaves Lansdown (HL) and advisers St James’s Place – have had a nasty shock. Not everyone is a loser. … Read more
A vet has urged pet owners to take a ‘common sense approach’ with their four-legged friends during the coronavirus crisis. Two research projects are underway at the University of Adelaide to determine whether pets can experience a biological transmission of the virus after several dogs and cats outside of Australia tested positive to COVID-19. But … Read more
Gary Neville has taken aim at the Premier League and their handling of the coronavirus crisis, describing it as ‘terrible’. In a series of tweets on Sunday, the former England and Manchester United defender turned television pundit, listed five calamitous decisions the Premier League has made in recent weeks. Premier League executives met with the … Read more
Almost 500,000 people could have died from coronavirus if the UK had adopted a ‘do-nothing’ approach associated with earlier ‘herd immunity’ plans, a study has suggested. As the virus began to take a stranglehold on the UK last month, the Government mooted the concept of beating back the disease by allowing 80 per cent of … Read more
Jessica Alba says The Honest Company has ‘donated three million diapers’ in addition to other essential supplies to families in need amid COVID-19 pandemic By Adam S. Levy For Dailymail.com Published: 07:11 BST, 3 April 2020 | Updated: 07:11 BST, 3 April 2020 Jessica Alba, appearing Thursday on a stream on The Tonight Show Starring … Read more