Kate and Rio Ferdinand ‘splash out £40,000 on two highly-trained protection dogs for their home’

Kate and Rio Ferdinand ‘splash out £40,000 on two highly-trained protection dogs for their home after spate of footballer burglaries’ By Jack Newman For Mailonline Published: 22:01 BST, 25 August 2020 | Updated: 22:43 BST, 25 August 2020 Kate and Rio Ferdinand have reportedly splashed out £40,000 on a pair of highly-trained dogs to protect … Read more

N95s offer the best protection to coronavirus but neck fleeces could trap infectious particles

We’ve all been told to wear face masks to reduce the spread of coronavirus, but it turns out the material your mask is made of may affect your risk, a new study suggests.  An N95 mask, which filters out nearly all particles both large and small, reduced the odds of contracting COVID-19, the disease caused … Read more

Liz Truss is warned she faces Tory rebellion unless she guarantees protection for British farmers

Liz Truss is warned she faces a ‘brick wall’ of Tory rebellion unless she guarantees protection for British farmers in post-Brexit trade deal with the US International Trade Secretary was warned to expect a fresh revolt from Tory MPs Urged to guarantee ‘in law’ not to sell out UK’s food production standards  Comes after Ms Truss unveiled … Read more

Coronavirus US: Fauci suggests wearing eye protection

Eye protection to block pathogens may be necessary to fully prevent coronavirus infection, leading US infectious disease expert Dr Anthony Fauci has said.  ‘If you have goggles or an eye shield, you should use it,’ Dr Fauci told ABC News in an Instagram Live interview on Wednesday.  Coronavirus is primarily contagious through respiratory droplets expelled when … Read more

Fauci suggests wearing eye protection to protect against coronavirus

Eye protection to block pathogens may be necessary to fully prevent coronavirus infection, leading US infectious disease expert Dr Anthony Fauci has said.  ‘If you have goggles or an eye shield, you should use it,’ Dr Fauci told ABC News in an Instagram Live interview on Wednesday.  Coronavirus is primarily contagious through respiratory droplets expelled when … Read more

Senior Wirecard exec ‘hiding in Russia under GRU protection’

Senior Wirecard executive ‘is hiding in Russia under the protection of GRU intelligence agency’ after the company admitted ‘missing’ £1.7bn never existed Jan Marsalek, COO of Wirecard, vanished as firm collapsed amid claims of fraud Marsalek claimed he was going to Asia, but is thought to have fled to Belarus He is now near Moscow … Read more

Government’s test and trace programme broke data protection law, rights group says

Government admits its test and trace programme broke data protection law as privacy campaigners call the scheme ‘reckless’ and ‘rushed-out’ Department of Health admitted it did not carry out privacy impact assessment  This has led campaigners to claim test and trace programme breaks data laws The government insists that there is no evidence of data … Read more

Protection insurance sales up during coronavirus

Many households have bolstered their financial defences with the purchase of protection insurance during coronavirus – with sales up by a quarter By Jeff Prestridge, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:57 BST, 11 July 2020 | Updated: 22:40 BST, 11 July 2020 The coronavirus pandemic has caused many households to bolster their financial defences with … Read more

Vaccine will give long-term protection says Oxford study chief

A jab against coronavirus should last for several years at least, said the British scientist whose own vaccine project is the global front-runner. Professor Sarah Gilbert told MPs she was optimistic that a vaccine would provide ‘a good duration of immunity’. She is the world-renowned expert leading an Oxford University team that is devising a … Read more