It’s become a household name in the lockdown for connecting families and friends over video, hosting Cabinet meetings and even online gym classes. Now, The Mail on Sunday can reveal that a British software executive is among the bosses at American video-conferencing company Zoom who have made a fortune from the lockdown. Jonathan Chadwick has … Read more
Her vivid accounts from a hospital battling to cope with coronavirus have been terrifying and heartbreaking in equal measure. Here, in the doctor’s latest diary, read how the sheer weight of patient numbers means normal procedures to save lives have been all but abandoned… MONDAY: A man is dying but these days it’s no emergency … Read more
In the race to fight Covid-19, many businesses are pivoting from what they traditionally offer to provide essential services – generating a new income stream in the process. While Mercedes F1 engineers have turned their attention to producing ventilators for example, Brendan O’Shea’s business, Just Clear, has bolted on Covid-19 decontamination services in addition to … Read more
London Kills Rating: Putin: A Russian Spy Story Rating: Yikes, the gaffer isn’t looking too good. DI Bradford was sweaty, shiny-skinned and unshaven, as London Kills (BBC1) returned. The gruff detective has a sackful of secrets in his private life — is coronavirus one of them? His teenage daughter Carly discovered the truth on an … Read more
Belgravia Rating: Celebrity Murder Mystery Rating: How outdated it all seems, the emphasis on good breeding and the reverence shown to sons and nephews of earls in the Victorian London of Belgravia (ITV). It wouldn’t happen now, eh? But the aristocracy of tellyland is just as convoluted and interwoven as the family trees in Burke’s … Read more
Mariska Hargitay mourns the loss of Law And Order: SVU costumer Josh Wallwork after crewmember dies of coronavirus complications at just 45 By Kelby Vera For Dailymail.com Published: 19:39 GMT, 26 March 2020 | Updated: 19:39 GMT, 26 March 2020 Law And Order: SVU star Mariska Hargitay is mourning the loss of a beloved crewmember … Read more
The US will not be part of a new trial led by the World Health Organization examining which treatments work best against coronavirus. The so-called ‘SOLIDARITY trial’ will see researchers from several different countries compare the effects of different drugs on the highly-infectious disease. Included in the trial are remdesivir, originally conceived as a drug … Read more
Idris Elba has been praised by the Director-General of the World Health Organisation for his ‘brave and powerful message’ after confirming he has coronavirus. Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, 55, took to Twitter on Tuesday to commend the actor, 47, for speaking about COVID-19, telling him to ‘take care and stay strong’. Idris revealed on Monday he … Read more