Sainsbury’s will double the number of seasonal workers this Christmas to 12,000 to help cope with 750,000 online orders a week It comes after Sainsbury’s announced its plan to cut 3,500 jobs last month Sainsbury’s has already doubled its online groceries capacity this year The supermarket plans to have created 6,000 permanent new roles by … Read more
The market for temporary seasonal roles in Britain has dived by a third this year compared to 2019. There are currently 13,600 temporary Christmas roles, a 31 per cent drop on the same week last year where more than 20,000 vacancies were available, according to job website Adzuna. The fall in job vacancies is down … Read more
Killer canine disease on the Queen’s estate: Three dogs are struck down with rare seasonal illness after owner stayed at Sandringham camp site Dog owner Maggie Hands, 58, say her three pooches are serious ill She says they fell ill after she visited a camp site on the Sandringham estate Maggie – who does not … Read more
Myleene Klass embraces seasonal style in a belted floral dress and Panama hat as she heads to work at Global Radio Studios By Jason Chester for MailOnline Published: 10:46 BST, 8 September 2020 | Updated: 13:31 BST, 8 September 2020 Warm weather welcomed a seasonal look on Tuesday as Myleene Klass ventured out in a … Read more
Animals have a ‘biological switch’ in their brains that helps them survive seasonal changes by growing a warm winter coat or adjusting their body temperature UK researchers studied sheep that they kept under artificially long or short days They monitored how such affected the pituitary gland and gene expression The gland operates one of two process … Read more
The novel coronavirus is seasonal and spreads in certain climate conditions, a new study suggests. Researchers found that areas affected early on in the outbreak were on a similar band of northern latitude, such as Wuhan and Daegu in Asia; Milan and Paris in Europe; and Seattle in the US. Also related among these cities … Read more
The novel coronavirus is about five times deadlier for adults than the seasonal flu, a new study suggests. As of early May, about 65,000 Americans had died from COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, which is about as many people who die from influenza every year in the US. However, researchers say the two … Read more
US death rate for coronavirus is 1.3% – TEN TIMES more fatal than the seasonal flu but less deadly than the WHO’s initial prediction of 2% Researchers created a model in which 35.5 million Americans would contract COVID-19 this year, as many as contracted the flu last year The model, based on symptomatic cases, found … Read more
Apple’s iPhone maker Foxconn hires enough workers to meet ‘seasonal demand’ for this year’s smartphone after being closed for weeks due to the coronavirus Foxconn shut its factories down last month due to the coronavirus outbreak The firm re-opened, but only 10% of its staff had returned to work Foxconn says it has hired enough … Read more
The coronavirus could become an infection that never goes away and causes seasonal outbreaks of illness, according to scientists. Countries around the world are in the grip of the first ever epidemics of the virus, which has infected around 90,000 people and killed more than 3,000. While the number of cases in South Korea, Italy … Read more