More than SEVENTY workers test positive for Covid-19 at dessert factory that supplies Sainsbury’s, Tesco and Waitrose where bosses threatened to sack staff if they didn’t return after lockdown Seventy-two people tested positive for Covid-19 at Bakkavor Desserts in Newark Factory supplies Sainsbury’s, Tesco and Waitrose and has 25 plants nationwide The workers were diagnosed … Read more
Last week I was sitting in glorious isolation in my consulting room at St Peter’s Hospital in Chertsey, Surrey, in what felt like a ghost town. There was a deserted waiting room, and outside was a virtually empty car park. My only contact with patients was via the telephone on my desk. Along the corridor, … Read more
Britain today recorded fewer than 1,000 Covid-19 cases for the first time in a week after 713 more Britons tested positive for the life-threatening disease. Department of Health figures show it is the lowest daily infection toll in almost a fortnight, since 670 new cases of coronavirus were announced on August 4. It means 1,080 … Read more
Chief executive of NHS Providers Chris Hopson (pictured) said ‘years of underfunding’ for PHE and public health more generally have left the country unprepared to deal with a pandemic Ministers have been accused of seeking to deflect attention from their own handling of the coronavirus crisis after reports Public Health England is to be broken … Read more
Peter Andre has paid tribute to his wife Emily on her birthday describing her as an ‘incredibly talented’ ‘mother, wife, step-mother and one hell of a doctor’. The singer, 47, shared a sweet throwback picture on Sunday of the family wearing rainbow t-shirts during the NHS Clap for Our Carers outside their Surrey home. The … Read more
Public Health England ‘will be scrapped and replaced by a new body to stop a second coronavirus spike’ Matt Hancock is axing Public Health England and replacing it with a new body National Institute for Health Protection will deal specifically with pandemics Its chief will report to ministers, giving government direct control over it By … Read more
Britain has recorded its highest Saturday infection total in eight weeks with 1,012 new Covid- 19 cases. The figures – which are more than 200 cases higher than last week – mark the biggest Saturday increase since 1,295 cases were reported on June 20. Britain has now seen 317,379 positive diagnoses in total. Concerns of a … Read more
A further five people who tested positive for Covid-19 have died in Britain today bringing the UK’s total deaths during the pandemic to during the pandemic to 41,363. Four more people who tested positive for coronavirus have died in hospital in England, NHS England said. The patients were aged between 66 and 88 and they all had … Read more
The first official portrait of Burma veteran Captain Sir Tom Moore has been unveiled at the National Army Museum before the 75th anniversary of Victory in Japan Day. Saturday is VJ Day, marking 75 years since Emperor Michinomiya Hirohito announced the unconditional surrender of his Imperial forces. Ahead of the anniversary, artist Alexander Chamberlain, a former … Read more
The first official portrait of Burma veteran Captain Sir Tom Moore has been unveiled at the National Army Museum before the 75th anniversary of Victory in Japan Day. Saturday is VJ Day, marking 75 years since Emperor Michinomiya Hirohito announced the unconditional surrender of his Imperial forces. Ahead of the anniversary, artist Alexander Chamberlain, a former … Read more