Oxford academic dismisses idea of deliberately infecting volunteers with Covid-19 to test vaccine

Professor Sarah Gilbert said it would not be safe for them to do a so-called ‘challenge trial’ of Oxford University’s Covid-19 vaccine candidate  An Oxford academic today dismissed the idea of deliberately infecting volunteers with Covid-19 to test the university’s experimental vaccine because no treatment currently exists to keep patients safe. Hopes of ending the Covid-19 … Read more

Russian agents may have deliberately left novichok in Salisbury

Russian agents may have deliberately discarded a bottle of the deadly nerve agent novichok, used in the assassination attempt of former spy Sergei Skripal, in Salisbury in a bid to undermine UK security, the High Court today heard. The claim was made during a legal challenge by the family of Dawn Sturgess, 44, who died … Read more

Russian agents may have deliberately left novichok in Salisbury

Russian agents may have deliberately discarded a bottle of the deadly nerve agent novichok, used in the assassination attempt of former spy Sergei Skripal, in Salisbury in a bid to undermine UK security, the High Court today heard. The claim was made during a legal challenge by the family of Dawn Sturgess, 44, who died … Read more

Deliberately infecting healthy Britons may be the only way to test a COVID-19 vaccine

Sir Terence Stephenson said deliberately infecting healthy Britons will be the only way to test a COVID-19 vaccine if the crisis is brought under control Deliberately infecting healthy Britons may be the only way to test a COVID-19 vaccine if the crisis is brought under control, a top researcher has claimed. Sir Terence Stephenson chairs the Health … Read more

Top civil servant says ministers made a ‘political decision’ to DELIBERATELY snub EU PPE scheme

Boris Johnson’s ministers deliberately snubbed EU efforts to buy equipment to help the fight against coronavirus – despite claiming it had been an accident, a senior civil servant revealed today. Sir Simon McDonald told MPs it had been a ‘political decision’ by the Government not to take part in Brussels-orchestrated efforts to bulk-buy protective equipment. … Read more

Editor of medical journal accuses Number 10 of ‘deliberately rewriting history’ amid coronavirus

Claim – On the third Friday in January Coronavirus was already spreading around the world but the government ‘brushed aside’ the threat in an hour-long COBR meeting and said the risk to the UK public was ‘low’. Response – At a very basic level, this is wrong. The meeting was on the fourth Friday in … Read more

Senator claims China ‘deliberately’ allowed coronavirus to spread

China must be held accountable if US intelligence’s investigation into claims the novel coronavirus could have originated from a laboratory in Wuhan turns out to be true, lawmakers have insisted.  It comes after President Donald Trump said on Wednesday the US is trying to determine whether the coronavirus first crossed to humans accidentally during experiments with bats … Read more

Police Taser man who ‘deliberately coughed over them’ in north London

Police Tasered a man after he allegedly began coughing over them after claiming he had coronavirus.  The Metropolitan Police firearms command said the man walked up to officers sitting in a car in Haringey, north London, and shouted that he was infected before deliberately coughing saliva all over them’. He then began to physically attack the … Read more

Disgusting moment reveller deliberately coughs on drinker after a pub argument over coronavirus

Disgusting moment a woman deliberately COUGHS on a fellow drinker during a pub argument over coronavirus social distancing A woman has been filmed coughing on another patron at a pub in Sydney  Authorities have brought in social distancing measures to slow coronavirus rate  The patrons at the pub had been asked to follow the social … Read more

Disgusting moment reveller deliberately coughs on drinker after a pub argument over coronavirus

Disgusting moment a woman deliberately COUGHS on a fellow drinker during a pub argument over coronavirus social distancing A woman has been filmed coughing on another patron at a pub in Sydney  Authorities have brought in social distancing measures to slow coronavirus rate  The patrons at the pub had been asked to follow the social … Read more