Britain’s coronavirus death toll today jumped by 286, with Northern Ireland having now gone three days in-a-row without recording a single fatality as the outbreak continues to fade. Department of Health figures show 277 of the Covid-19 victims were from England, while the other nine were in Wales. No laboratory-confirmed deaths were recorded in Scotland … Read more
The UK has announced a preliminary daily Covid-19 death toll of 106, taking the official count to 38,482. Department of Health officials – who release the UK’s final coronavirus count every afternoon – have yet to update the official figures. This preliminary toll is calculated by adding up the individual tallies of each of the … Read more
The UK has announced a preliminary daily Covid-19 death toll of 106, taking the official count to 38,482. Department of Health officials – who release the UK’s final coronavirus count every afternoon – have yet to update the figures. This preliminary toll is calculated by adding up the individual tallies of each of the home … Read more
Ever since Chancellor Rishi Sunak turned on the spending taps to save Britain’s businesses amid the lockdown, there have been grumblings in the Tory Party about the gigantic bill that will need paying after the crisis. One can therefore only imagine how they’ll react on discovering that the party’s own coffers could also soon run … Read more
The US drug epidemic has likely claimed the lives of twice as many Americans as currently estimated, new research suggests. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that there were 63,000 drug overdose deaths in 2016. But that estimate doesn’t include non-overdose deaths that have drugs at their root, like those from HIV, … Read more