What the coronavirus figures REALLY show: COVID-19 is the third most common cause of death, males are dying more, England’s death rate per capita is 50% higher than Wales and 10% of victims have NO underlying conditions By Stephen Matthews Health Editor For Mailonline Published: 11:40 BST, 16 April 2020 | Updated: 11:46 BST, 16 … Read more
A disabled British couple who have been stranded in Goa for more than a month have only been able to eat one meal between them a day and are staying in an apartment they ‘wouldn’t let their dog stay in’ due to the coronavirus lockdown. Former carpet manufacturing company worker Barry Lodge, 72, and his … Read more
What we think of as ‘valuable’ is changing amid coronavirus and firms will be judge on how they behaved, says former BoE governor Mark Carney He said companies would be judged by ‘what they did during the war’ This meant how they treated employees, suppliers and customers Writing in The Economist, he said the pandemic … Read more
A star orbiting the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy does so in a way that proves physicist Albert Einstein right – again. The star, called S2, orbits Sagittarius A* in a rosette shape, blipping out from the elliptical orbit at random points – an idea predicted by Einstein over … Read more
Pregnancy cravings? Lara Bingle treats herself to a $157 coconut flavoured bundt cake while in self-isolation By Ali Daher For Daily Mail Australia Published: 11:32 BST, 16 April 2020 | Updated: 11:32 BST, 16 April 2020 Lara Bingle (née Bingle) is set to welcome her third child with husband Sam Worthington in the next few … Read more
Coronavirus doctor is forced to wear disposable NHS pants on his HEAD after his ward runs out of hair-nets – as he jokes Matt Hancock will be asking him to use his own underwear next London doctor @RNappleby revealed on Twitter that disposable paper pants, normally reserved for patients, were being used as hair-nets by staff … Read more
The NHS has dropped controversial guidance which told care homes to try and avoid taking their residents to A&E in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak. Health chiefs have rowed back after saying that care home residents should not be taken to casualty without carers first seeking advice from a ‘clinical adviser’. Homes had been … Read more
Heavy-handed councils have been slammed for banning all mourners from services. The National Association of Funeral Directors (NAFD) has hit out at local authorities in locations including Belfast, Leeds and Bradford that have stopped bereaved families from attending funerals. Instead several councils are now offering ‘direct cremations’, in which there is no ceremony and mourners … Read more
Nicole Scherzinger showcases her impressive flexibility as she does a headstand split while giving fans a glimpse inside her lockdown routine at her LA home By Niomi Harris For Mailonline Published: 11:08 BST, 16 April 2020 | Updated: 11:08 BST, 16 April 2020 She’s been isolating during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic with her rugby player … Read more
The UK Government should offer a £1billion prize to any laboratory that can process 10million coronavirus tests a day, according to a Nobel Prize-winning economist. Paul Romer, a professor at New York University, said the huge sum would light a fire under university and private labs to rapidly scale up their swabbing capacity. Britain is still … Read more