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French lockdown restrictions due to come into force Friday morning at 00:01am Emmanuel Macron’s target of slashing France’s coronavirus infections to 5,000 a day is impossible to achieve in the month-long lockdown he announced last night, his top scientific adviser said today. Professor Jean-Francois Delfraissy said France would ‘need more time’ to bring infections down … Read more
Bill Gates has criticized White House coronavirus adviser Dr. Scott Atlas as a ‘pseudo-expert’ and labeled him ‘off-the-rails’. The Microsoft billionaire’s remarks about Atlas joined an increasing chorus from public health experts that sounded in recent weeks. ‘We now have a pseudo-expert advising the president,’ Gates said during Yahoo Finance’s All Market Summit: Road to Recovery … Read more
Britain’s second wave of coronavirus could peak at Christmas if there is no national lockdown, a SAGE scientist warned today. Professor John Edmunds, an epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, told MPs that the three-tier lockdown system will only slow down the UK’s outbreak and not shrink it. The ultimate outcome, … Read more
Twitter removes ‘misleading’ tweet from top Trump Covid adviser Dr Scott Atlas that said masks don’t work The tweet in question was shared by Dr Scott Atlas and reads: ‘Masks work? No’ Atlas also shared places where he says ‘cases exploded even with mandates’ Twitter subsequently removed the tweet, saying it violated the platform’s Covid-19 … Read more
A series of coronavirus ‘circuit breakers’ should be pencilled in around the school holidays, a senior Government official said last night. Three weeks ago the Sage group of scientists advising ministers recommended a short lockdown to halt the rise in Covid-19 cases, which the Government chose not to follow. But yesterday the senior government adviser … Read more
Jason Miller says Trump is ready to get back on campaign trail while adviser Steve Cortes says he is ‘upbeat and assertive’ despite President’s doctor saying he’s ‘not yet out of the woods’ Senior Trump campaign adviser Jason Miller said Sunday that when Donald Trump is ‘out of the hospital, he’s ready to get back … Read more
Covid THIRD wave ‘entirely possible’: Government science adviser warns it’s ‘doubtful’ a vaccine will be ready for mass roll-out in six months and says UK should brace for another surge in infections next year Professor Mark Woolhouse sits on one of Government’s expert Covid-19 panels He said it is ‘doubtful’ a vaccine will be ready … Read more
Ex-TV presenter mother-of-two who went back to work six weeks after giving birth ‘is Boris Johnson’s preferred choice’ to front No10’s White House-style daily televised press briefings after overseeing rise of ‘Dishy Rishi’ Sunak Downing Street is planning to launch daily televised press briefings in October Boris Johnson reportedly wants Rishi Sunak’s director of communications … Read more
A customer adviser for Lloyds bank sold customers’ account details to her friend who was a gambling addict. Jaspreet Marwaha, from Birmingham, gave the information of more than 80 accounts to Mohammed Saif Maqsood, from Blackburn, who paid £50 for each set of card details and swiped between £82,000 and £92,000 from them. At one point the … Read more
Adviser linked to exams fiasco is given a key role in new planning changes that critics fear could see developers ‘concreting’ the countryside Tim Leunig joins team working on biggest changes to building laws in 70 years Dr Leunig was on government group that advised how to standardise grades Standardisation led to the downgrading of … Read more