With private companies’ coronavirus testing coming online, the Trump administration promised the shortage of test kits would rapidly disappear. That may be the case, as more than 100,000 Americans are now being tested in the US each day. But just because more people are ‘getting tested’ – having their noses swabbed for sample collection – … Read more
One in four NHS doctors is currently sitting at home, unable to work because they or someone they’re living with is displaying symptoms of coronavirus. For any doctor living through a public health crisis such as this, that is incredibly frustrating. And I should know: I’m stuck at home myself. Yesterday, at work, I suddenly … Read more
Responding on January 23 to mounting fears about the remorseless advance across the globe of coronavirus, Health Secretary Matt Hancock delivered a statement to the Commons. Even though deaths were inexorably rising in China, where the incurable killer originated, no cases had – yet – been discovered in Britain. Nevertheless, Mr Hancock sought to reassure … Read more
Broadway star Brian Stokes Mitchell, 62, reveals testing positive for coronavirus on social media By Paul Chavez For Dailymail.com Published: 03:27 BST, 2 April 2020 | Updated: 04:28 BST, 2 April 2020 Broadway star Brian Stokes Mitchell took to social media Wednesday to reveal that he’s tested positive for the coronavirus. The 62-year-old Tony Award … Read more
Ali Wentworth announced Wednesday on Instagram that she had tested positive for the coronavirus. The 55-year-old actress and comedian had documented her time self-isolating at home in recent weeks on social media. Her husband, Good Morning America anchor George Stephanopoulos, began broadcasting from home earlier that day after she began to develop symptoms of COVID-19. … 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
Ministers have been accused of leaving it too late to ramp up the UK’s coronavirus testing amid shortages of chemicals and swabs. Boris Johnson is facing jibes that the push toward mass testing was left ‘too late’, with the whole world now seeking the same critical materials. Chris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers – … Read more
Ministers were accused of ‘complacence’ and snubbing offers of help from labs today as Boris Johnson struggles to get a grip on the UK’s coronavirus testing shambles. The government is desperately trying to ramp up the number of checks carried out, with experts warning that is the only way to end the lockdown threatening to … Read more
Seduced by a declining daily death toll and cautious optimism among experts, many members of the public may have dared hope that Britain was finally turning a corner on the coronavirus horror. If so, they were yesterday abruptly disabused of that rose-tinted notion. On a bleak day, the number of patients dying rocketed by 381 … Read more
Ministers are being told to get a grip on coronavirus testing as the health secretary closes a loophole that left thousands of its unused and a vast NHS swabbing station stood deserted. Matt Hancock tonight intervened to end the embarrassing situation in which the number of tests carried out is short of capacity. A source … Read more