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
Friends have always complimented me on two things: my skin (Botox-free and fairly smooth — entirely because of my mother’s genes) and my hair (thick, if greying). I’ve always been quite blase about my complexion, barely giving my skin a dab of cream, morning or evening. But my blonde mane is another matter. On those … Read more
John and Chrissie Wade: ‘We still feel that we and Mum in particular have been very badly treated by Aviva’ A Devon couple have won a year-long battle with Aviva after it cut off a frail 96-year-old woman’s £100 a month annuity payments. Ellen Wade’s son and daughter-in-law got embroiled in a bizarre misunderstanding over her … Read more
Ash dieback disease plaguing forests could be stopped by hedgerows and may NOT be as harmful as previously thought, study finds Study assessed levels of the fungal disease in a 22 square km patch of woodland Found that within two years the disease was found on almost all trees in the area However, trees in … Read more
New ‘test, track and trace’ app CAN stop second winter coronavirus peak, claims Sir Patrick Vallance Sir Patrick told MPs the new contact-tracing app could help stop a second peak Told Health Select Committee ‘optimistic’ the app can keep cases under control He also told MPs spread of coronavirus was different in different parts of … Read more
New ‘test, track and trace’ app CAN stop second winter coronavirus peak, claims Sir Patrick Vallance Sir Patrick told MPs the new contact-tracing app could help stop a second peak Sir Patrick told MPs spread of coronavirus was different in different parts of UK He said densely populated places had ‘higher prevalence’ than in rural … Read more
A healthy 12-year-old Louisiana girl’s heart stopped for two minutes after she developed a rare life-threatening inflammatory syndrome believed to be linked to coronavirus. Juliet Daly almost died when the coronavirus seemed to trigger a rare heart condition, that doctors across Britain, Italy, Spain and now the US are warning proves the virus could be deadly … Read more
A healthy 12-year-old Louisiana girl’s heart stopped for two minutes after she developed a rare life-threatening inflammatory syndrome believed to be linked to coronavirus. Juliet Daly almost died when the coronavirus seemed to trigger a rare heart condition, that doctors across Britain, Italy, Spain and now the US are warning proves the virus could be deadly … Read more
If you spend a lot of time on Twitter (and I do at the moment), you can end up reading some very odd claims. Apparently smoking protects against Covid-19, the virus is using the 5G mobile-phone network to spread, and eating raw garlic will keep corona at bay. Needless to say, many of the claims … Read more
2020 OLYMPIC GAMES The 2020 Olympic Games has been postponed until 2021 on March 24 – becoming one of the last major sporting events this summer to fall victim to the coronavirus. Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe held a crucial conference call with Olympics chief Thomas Bach on Tuesday to formally decide a plan and … Read more