British doctor who is overseeing the global hunt for a coronavirus vaccine says jab should be fast-tracked for medics and vulnerable patients by JANUARY Dr Melanie Saville said a coronavirus vaccine could be ready by January The jab could be rolled out for health workers before it has been licensed But she said Britons in isolation … Read more
Boris Johnson brings in Tory election chief Isaac Levido to co-ordinate coronavirus battle after his chief adviser Dominic Cummings falls sick Levido ran Boris Johnson’s leadership campaign and helped Tories win GE The Prime Minister, Health Secretary and Chief Medical Officer are all sick Downing Street declined to say whether Dominic Cummings is well enough … Read more
Three elderly Jewish people die of coronavirus two weeks after attending bar mitzvah ceremony – as religious leaders warn ‘close-knit’ communities put Jews at greater risk of infection Event happened two weeks ago before official restrictions on social gatherings Victims were all in their 80s – a husband and wife and an unrelated guest It … Read more
Government tells schools to stay open through the Easer holidays to look after children of key workers who will still be needed to help Britain’s battle against coronavirus Government closed all of the schools in Britain to most children from March 20 Only pupils still attending school are vulnerable children or those of key workers … Read more
Royal Mail postal workers have been ordered to leave parcels on customers’ doorsteps to keep a ‘safe distance’ from homeowners as the coronavirus crisis intensifies. Postman and father-of one Ethan Gordon, from Boston, Lincolnshire, took to Facebook to outline the instructions to customers ‘for their safety and all posties alike’. It comes as Britain’s coronavirus death … Read more
Youths flout coronavirus lockdown rules as they pull up in their cars to blast music and socialise on a west London road Two cars blaring loud music open their doors to socialise during the lockdown The footage was shot by an outraged local in Hillingdon Heath, west London Residential road has many elderly residents particularly … Read more
Footage shows a group of youths flouting the coronavirus lockdown rules as they pull up in two cars near a hospital, blaring loud music on a road filled with elderly residents. The footage was shot by an outraged local in Hillingdon Heath, west London, on a road near Hillingdon hospital this afternoon, who said the … Read more
A five-day evangelical congregation at a French megachurch has been blamed for sparking the country’s biggest cluster of coronavirus infections. Worshippers at the Christian Open Door church in Mulhouse, near the Swiss border, had travelled across the world for the week-long event on February 18. The prayer meeting kicked off the biggest cluster of Covid-19 cases … Read more
As the coronavirus rages across the United States, mainly in large urban areas, more than a third of U.S. counties have yet to report a single positive test result for COVID-19 infections, an analysis by The Associated Press shows. Data compiled by Johns Hopkins University shows that 1,297 counties have no confirmed cases of COVID-19 … Read more
Hero PCSO dies of coronavirus: Brave officer, 66, who swam 800ft into the North to save four teenage girls being swept away in dinghy dies from bug in hospital four years later John Hood, 66, stayed in self-isolation for over a week after contracting the bug When his condition worsened, Mr Hood he was admitted … Read more