Netflix users targeted by cybercriminals since COVID outbreak 

Scammers are increasingly using the guise of streaming giant Netflix to steal money from people during the coronavirus pandemic, a security company says.  US cyber safety company BrandShield has detected a total of 639 new domain names registered containing the word ‘Netflix’ in them since the beginning of 2020. More than a third of these … Read more

British drug firms fight to be first in race to beat Covid

British drug firms fight to be first in race to beat Covid: Glaxosmithkline teams-up with French rival Sanofi By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 22:45 BST, 14 April 2020 | Updated: 23:08 BST, 14 April 2020 British drug firms have put themselves at the centre of the battle against the coronavirus with plans … Read more

Banks will make £600m in extra interest from Covid mortgage holidays 

Banks are set to make more than £600 million in extra interest paid by cash-strapped homeowners taking mortgage holidays, Money Mail can reveal. Campaigners say the vast profit lenders will make from the crisis is ‘disgraceful’ and are demanding they scrap additional interest charges. The breaks are seen as a lifeline for borrowers facing financial … Read more

Two-thirds of Britons – even half of LABOUR voters – say government is doing a good job again Covid

The vast majority of Britons say Boris Johnson’s government is doing a good job of tackling the coronavirus crisis, a poll suggests. Two-thirds of the country, including nearly half of Labour voters, feel the Prime Minister has handled the pandemic well so far, the YouGov survey says. The UK was put in lockdown on March … Read more

NYC hospital removes blood, enriches it with oxygen and returns it to Covid patients

Doctors at a Brooklyn hospitals are removing coronavirus patients’ blood from their bodies, rejunvenating it with oxygen, and returning it to the patients in an experimental bid to help those on ventilators.  The procedure is known as ‘ECMO’ –  extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.  As critically ill coronavirus patients flood into their hospitals, doctors have noticed a … Read more

Three NHS nurses forced to use bin bags diagnosed with Covid 19

Three nurses who were pictured wearing bin bags because of a lack of protective gear have tested positive for coronavirus, it was reported last night. The frontline staff at Northwick Park Hospital in Harrow were forced to put clinical waste bags on their heads and feet last month due to shortages of personal protective equipment … Read more

Firms struggling to secure emergency Covid business loans

Struggling firms applying for Covid business loans ‘eight times more likely to be rejected than approved’ By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 22:57 BST, 7 April 2020 | Updated: 23:15 BST, 7 April 2020 Struggling firms which applied to their bank for an emergency business loan last week were eight times more likely … Read more

The Covid denier: Belarus President says it will be beaten with vodka

In the absence of an official Covid-19 death toll – at least one that anyone believes – the people of Belarus rely on an altogether more primitive source of information.  A street kiosk in the former Soviet republic’s fourth city, Vitebsk, bore a terse, medieval warning in red spray paint last week.  ‘Vitebsk, 22 corpses. … Read more

Test by test: Covid kits from 10-minute finger-prick tests to a mask that can diagnose instantly

Boris Johnson today announced that coronavirus testing was to ramped up to 25,000 per day after the government was lashed for potentially allowing tens of thousands of infected people to walk the streets undiagnosed. Only 5,000 were being swabbed for COVID-19 previously, a fraction of the number seen elsewhere. It comes as the number of positive … Read more