Boris Johnson has written to all opposition leaders to invite them to Number 10 next week to work together to battle coronavirus. The announcement comes as it was revealed that the Queen will issue a rallying cry to the nation on Sunday in a rare address to the nation to boost morale. Johnson wrote: ‘Coronavirus … Read more
Tesla delivers record number of electric cars in first three months of 2020, boosted by demand for new Model Y By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:58 BST, 3 April 2020 | Updated: 21:58 BST, 3 April 2020 Tesla delivered a record number of electric cars in the first three months of 2020, … Read more
The US continues to outpace every other country in coronavirus cases as the pandemic spreads. There are more than 245,000 confirmed cases in America. That is twice as many as the country with the second-highest number of cases: Spain at 117,000. In just a matter of weeks, the US surpassed other countries once considered to … Read more
Revealed: The 270 new ’20’ number plates the DVLA deems offensive and has banned including EU20 GON and F20 OFF DVLA has removed 270 ’20’ plates from availability as they’re deemed insulting It includes references to Europe, narcotics and swearing The agency takes offensive plate references very seriously with experts having a bi-annual meeting to … Read more
Hope for the British house sparrow as RSPB survey shows numbers of the chirpy bird have grown by ten per cent in the last decade RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch annually surveys Britain to determine bird numbers Found sparrow numbers are stabilising and increasing since 2010 This was the 41st year the project was held and followed a … Read more
Italy’s coronavirus death toll has risen by 727 today, the lowest daily rise since March 26. The country’s total death toll now sits at 13,155, the Civil Protection Agency revealed, with today’s increase significantly smaller than Tuesday’s. The percentage rise in daily deaths in Italy – 5.8 per cent – is also the lowest since the … Read more
What is the coronavirus? A coronavirus is a type of virus which can cause illness in animals and people. Viruses break into cells inside their host and use them to reproduce itself and disrupt the body’s normal functions. Coronaviruses are named after the Latin word ‘corona’, which means crown, because they are encased by a … Read more
Spain’s death toll from coronavirus has risen by a record amount for the second day in a row with total cases now over 100,000. The country registered 864 new deaths between Tuesday and Wednesday, bringing the total from 8,189 to 9,053. The previous largest increase was 849, which occurred in the previous 24 hours. The … Read more
The UK could already have had 1.8million coronavirus patients with one in every 37 people having caught the disease, according to scientists. In Spain a staggering one in every seven people – 7.5million citizens – are predicted to have had the COVID-19 illness already, along with 10 per cent of Italians. Researchers at Imperial College … Read more
Maps of fever readings from across the country seem to indicate that strict social distancing measures may be helping reduce cases of the novel coronavirus. Kinsa Health, a medical technology company based in San Francisco, has uploaded data from hundreds of thousands of smart thermometers connected to the Internet. The firm can’t track the spread of … Read more