U.S. coronavirus lockdown to last 10-12 weeks, top…

BREAKING NEWS: U.S. coronavirus lockdown is set to last 10-12 weeks, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says By Reuters Published: 14:04 GMT, 22 March 2020 | Updated: 14:26 GMT, 22 March 2020 The lockdown affecting large segments of the American public to try to curb the spread of the coronavirus is likely to last 10 to … Read more

Deliveroo sign-ups jump 86 per cent in just two weeks during coronavirus shutdown

Deliveroo sign-ups jump 86 per cent in just two weeks as Boris Johnson pushes restaurants online because of coronavirus outbreak As many as 3,000 restaurants have signed up to the platform in the past month All cafes, bars and restaurants were ordered closed on Friday by the government Many businesses have now gone online to … Read more

Coronavirus could overwhelm NHS ‘within weeks’

Revealed: 71% of coronavirus intensive care patients are male and the average age is 64 as the number needing life or death care doubles every three days, senior doctors reveal Coronaviruses have been found to affect men more severely than women Although the elderly are most vulnerable to the disease, younger people have been warned against … Read more

Coronavirus could overwhelm NHS ‘within weeks’

Revealed: 71% of coronavirus intensive care patients are male and the average age is 64 as the number needing life or death care doubles every three days, senior doctors reveal Coronaviruses have been found to affect men more severely than women Although the elderly are most vulnerable to the disease, younger people have been warned against … Read more

How Britain is now exactly two weeks behind Italy in coronavirus death toll

What is the coronavirus?  A coronavirus is a type of virus which can cause illness in animals and people. Viruses break into cells inside their host and use them to reproduce itself and disrupt the body’s normal functions. Coronaviruses are named after the Latin word ‘corona’, which means crown, because they are encased by a … Read more

How Britain is now exactly two weeks behind Italy in coronavirus death toll

What is the coronavirus?  A coronavirus is a type of virus which can cause illness in animals and people. Viruses break into cells inside their host and use them to reproduce itself and disrupt the body’s normal functions. Coronaviruses are named after the Latin word ‘corona’, which means crown, because they are encased by a … Read more

From Jo Brand on Table Manners to the eight-part drama Blackout: This week’s top podcasts

From Jo Brand on Table Manners to the eight-part drama Blackout, Castaway and The Coronavirus Podcast, this week’s top podcasts By Leaf Arbuthnot Published: 22:01 GMT, 21 March 2020 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 21 March 2020 Table Manners  Every week on this big-hearted podcast, singer Jessie Ware and her mum Lennie invite a celebrity guest … Read more

Maggie O’Farrell, Evie Wyld and Anakana Schofield: This week’s best new fiction 

From Maggie O’Farrell’s radiant novel to The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld and Anakana Schofield’s captivating latest, this week’s best new fiction By Hephzibah Anderson and Anthony Gardner and Gwendolyn Smith For Event Magazine Published: 22:02 GMT, 21 March 2020 | Updated: 22:02 GMT, 21 March 2020 Hamnet Maggie O’Farrell            … Read more

Hotels in London will offer 300 beds to rough sleepers for 12 weeks due to coronavirus 

Hotels in London will offer 300 beds to rough sleepers for 12 weeks to help protect them against coronavirus The mayor’s office is working with IHG to block book rooms at a discounted rate  Beds offered to vulnerable people already known to homelessness charities Rough sleepers are far less likely to be able to follow … Read more

This Morning’s Ruth Langsford returns after missing last week’s show due to illness

This Morning’s Ruth Langsford returns after missing last week’s show due to illness… as husband Eamonn Holmes is forced to cancel her 60th birthday celebrations over coronavirus fears By Charlotte Dean For Mailonline Published: 15:26 GMT, 20 March 2020 | Updated: 16:03 GMT, 20 March 2020 She missed last Friday’s show due to illness and … Read more