Mass coronavirus testing was stopped in mid-March due to the ‘sheer scale of cases in the UK’, says top official Professor Yvonne Doyle explained why the UK stopped mass testing on March 12 The senior health official put it down to the large number of UK cases by then In March, hundreds and thousands of … Read more
We’ve already seen a runner complete a marathon in his back garden and a man reach the lofty heights of Mount Everest in his own home. But now locked-down Britons are climbing the walls of their own home with boredom – quite literally. Climbing enthusiasts unable to reach their favourite spots or local leisure centres … Read more
The Government was told by the UK’s intelligence community from the outset that China had concealed the true scale of the pandemic, sources claim. A senior former MI6 official says that Ministers were told ‘not to believe Beijing’s claims’ and to pour cold water on all information coming out of China. Britain’s intelligence agencies knew what … Read more
The Government was told by the UK’s intelligence community from the outset that China had concealed the true scale of the pandemic, sources claim. A senior former MI6 official says that Ministers were told ‘not to believe Beijing’s claims’ and to pour cold water on all information coming out of China. Britain’s intelligence agencies knew what … Read more
North Korea is hiding the true devastation dealt to its people by coronavirus in a bid to spare China embarrassment, a senior defector has revealed. The regime is also desperate to keep its death toll from the people, he said, and was terrified of the ‘shockwaves’ that would rock society if the real impact was … Read more
Just imagine going to war against an enemy of unknown scale — and not knowing the number of armed forces personnel at your disposal. It would make it almost impossible to determine a battle plan. But that is the situation we now find ourselves in as we try to contend with coronavirus. We have no … Read more
Just imagine going to war against an enemy of unknown scale — and not knowing the number of armed forces personnel at your disposal. It would make it almost impossible to determine a battle plan. But that is the situation we now find ourselves in as we try to contend with coronavirus. We have no … Read more
The estimated death toll from the coronavirus pandemic in the United States has been lowered from 82,000 to 60,000 after new projections scaled back the number of fatalities over the next four months by 26 percent. The updated projections has also brought forward the peak day of deaths to April 12 where an estimated 2,212 deaths … Read more
The scale of the economic wipeout from Covid-19 is truly horrifying. As the lockdown has spread across the United States, the number of Americans filing jobless claims shot up to 6.65m – almost twice the number of just a week ago, ahead of all forecasts and bringing the two-week total up to 10m people. On … Read more
Airlines across the globe have slashed services in an effort to slow down the spread of coronavirus, with thousands of fewer flights in the air. Data from airline tracking site Flight Radar 24 shows the massive reduction in the numbers of aircraft flying across the globe. According to the International Air Transport Association, it now … Read more