Rio Tinto penalties for fatalities at its mines are ‘too lenient’

Rio Tinto warned by shareholder advisers that boardroom penalties for fatalities at its mines are too lenient By Alex Lawson, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:51 BST, 3 April 2021 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 3 April 2021 Rio Tinto has been warned by shareholder advisers that boardroom penalties for fatalities at its mines are too … Read more

Britain records 830 Covid deaths as fatalities DOUBLE week-on-week

Britain records 830 Covid deaths as fatalities DOUBLE week-on-week as UK posts ANOTHER daily high of 60,916 cases By Stephen Matthews Health Editor For Mailonline Published: 16:37 GMT, 5 January 2021 | Updated: 16:41 GMT, 5 January 2021 Advertisement Britain today recorded another 830 Covid deaths as official statistics show the number of daily deaths … Read more

UK hospitals record another 12 coronavirus deaths with no fatalities in Scotland and Wales

UK hospitals recorded another 12 coronavirus deaths, amid warnings from the Health Secretary the country is at a ‘tipping point.  Health authorities today said there had been 12 fatalities in England, but none in Scotland or Wales. The figures for Northern Ireland have not yet been released.  The victims were aged between 62 and 98, … Read more

So has No. 10 REALLY got its science right? Almost all Covid fatalities are among older people

After spending three months in strict lockdown, millions of Britons in their teens or twenties have spent the summer embracing a return to relative normality. They have flocked to pubs and restaurants to make the most of Eat Out to Help Out, jetted off on holiday with friends or snuck into illegal raves. But, with … Read more

Coronavirus UK: 4 new fatalities in preliminary daily death toll

England has reported four more Covid-19 deaths taking the total to 41,555, while Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have each reported zero. The Department of Health are yet to confirm the early count, which is calculated by adding the deaths reported by each home nation. NHS England was the only agency to have reported deaths … Read more

Coronavirus UK: 12 new fatalities in preliminary daily death toll

England and Northern Ireland announce 12 more coronavirus deaths in UK’s early count The official total number of deaths was yesterday 41,527 in Government data As deaths continue to fade the attention has switched to cases, which are rising Experts say surging cases is a result of better testing and not a ‘second wave’  By … Read more

Fauci says US fatalities NOT exaggerated after data suggested only 9,000 people died of COVID alone

The nation’s top infectious disease expert has addressed new data revealing that nearly every American who has died of coronavirus also had underlying conditions.   According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 94 percent of those who have died of COVID-19 had at least one pre-existing health issue such as high blood pressure, … Read more

Coronavirus UK: 10 new fatalities in preliminary daily death toll

Three more Covid-19 deaths were recorded in the UK today, as the Health Secretary Matt Hancock says Britain must doing ‘everything in our power’ to avoid a second wave of hospitalisations caused by Covid-19 like the one that is sweeping across Europe. Mr Hancock, speaking to MPs in the House of Commons for the first … Read more

Hospitals in UK record another three coronavirus deaths with all fatalities in England

The Government said 41,499 people had died in the UK within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19 as of Sunday, an increase of one on the day before. Separate figures published by the UK’s statistics agencies show there have now been 57,200 deaths registered in the UK where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death … Read more

Coronavirus UK: 15 fatalities in preliminary daily death toll

Britain today recorded just 15 more laboratory-confirmed coronavirus deaths in the preliminary toll.   NHS England revealed all of the victims died in hospitals across the country. No Covid-19 fatalities were posted in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland. A full round-up of the total number of fatalities — which will include all settings in England and not … Read more