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Ex-BBC star Sue Cook, 71, accuses ‘unbalanced’ broadcaster of pushing too hard to shut down UK by forever ‘wheeling out’ ‘Professor Lockdown’ Neil Ferguson over other scientists Sue Cook, 71, was speaking to journalist Anna Brees about BBC’s Covid coverage She slammed ‘unbalanced’ corporation and said she’d stopped listening to Today Claimed ex-employer ‘wheeled out’ Prof … Read more
EXCLUSIVE: Moment two Met Police officers slap Sikh rally organiser with £10k fine for breaking Covid rules as he led 4,000-strong London protest to support farmers in Punjab Depa Singh became the latest person hit with a £10,000 fixed penalty notice under new Covid laws restricting public gatherings of more than 30 people Mr Singh … Read more
A hat-trick of studies today confirmed coronavirus cases are surging in England with as many as 45,000 people catching the virus every day and the number of infections doubling in a week at the end of September. One Government-led study estimated that the infection rate could be almost half of what it was during the … Read more
A business minister today defended the Government’s claim that 30 per cent of all coronavirus transmissions are occurring in pubs, bars, cafes and restaurants after furious MPs accused ministers of ‘cobbling together’ numbers to ‘justify’ their point of view based on flimsy data from fewer than 100 pubs. Nadhim Zahawi MP argued the sample was … Read more
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer renewed his attack on Boris Johnson and the government’s coronavirus crisis handling again today as he insisted the public ‘just want to know that the Prime Minister has a plan’. Sir Keir said the country was at a crossroads in its national effort to defeat the pandemic with infection rates … Read more
A shocking video has laid bare the devastating impact of Long Covid, with sufferers admitting they feel ‘disabled’ and have been left crippled financially due to their inability to work. In the YouTube short film, created by producer Anouk Curry and Ali Hobbs for the campaign group Covid19: The Untold Story, British patients as young as 13 … Read more
Hundreds of thousands of vulnerable Britons may need to shield indoors for months and measures to curb coronavirus will be likely until at least April to stop the NHS from imploding as winter looms. Advice for clinically at-risk people to avoid contact with others could be included in the top tier of a ‘traffic light’ … Read more
Holland becomes one of the world’s covid hot-spots after refusing to bring in face mask rules and its testing system dismally failed to meet demands Per capita infection rate in Holland is among the top ten countries in the world Spike in cases has caught the country’s testing system on its heels Today parliament debated … Read more
Britain’s flying circus: It is farcical that government has taken so long to look into airport Covid testing, says ALEX BRUMMER By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 21:59 BST, 8 October 2020 | Updated: 21:59 BST, 8 October 2020 Whatever happened to the ‘can-do’ Dunkirk spirit? The very notion that 200 days after … Read more
NHS hospitals in Blackpool are treating up to 65 per cent as many patients as they were at the peak of the outbreak in April, statistics show. In Newcastle and Liverpool, admission rates are nudging closer numbers not seen for six months as the second wave of Covid-19 rips through the North of England. Cases … Read more