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An award-winning Chinese author who kept an online diary about her lockdown life in Wuhan is facing death threats after agreeing to publish her journal in foreign languages, it has been revealed. Wuhan-native Fang Fang, 64, has provided millions with a rare glimpse into the centre of the coronavirus outbreak with 60 posts penned in isolation … Read more
Health Secretary Matt Hancock’s pledge for more testing for workers and residents in care homes has been welcomed by those on the frontline of the crisis. But many say their calls for more specialist training and more Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) are still being ignored. Lindsay Marks, 39 – not her real name – has … Read more
Are you daunted by the prospect of three more weeks in lockdown? Read this week’s searing diary of a doctor working on the coronavirus front line – and then count your blessings… MONDAY One mother’s unbearable call to her boys We have been asked to re-use disposable surgical gowns – they’ll be laundered but I … Read more
It is nearly a month since the Government turned the key on a nationwide lockdown — changing the world, almost overnight, for businesses across the UK. Despite being promised support packages, many small businesses fear they will not survive. Figures this week revealed that banks have given vital loans to only 5,000 British firms — … Read more
Her vivid accounts from a hospital battling to cope with coronavirus have been terrifying and heartbreaking in equal measure. Here, in the doctor’s latest diary, read how the sheer weight of patient numbers means normal procedures to save lives have been all but abandoned… MONDAY: A man is dying but these days it’s no emergency … Read more
Panayiotis Elia, 66, didn’t show typical Covid-19 symptoms. Pictured in Good Hope Hospital, Birmingham A fish and chip shop owner who fought for his life against coronavirus has shared his candid hospital diary detailing how medics did their best to help him survive. Panayiotis Elia, 66, didn’t show typical Covid-19 symptoms – initially he just … Read more
Madonna posts bizarre ‘quarantine diary’ video in which she claims to have lost three friends ‘in the last 24 hours’: ‘I’m over it’ By David Lawrance For Dailymail.com Published: 17:37 BST, 9 April 2020 | Updated: 17:41 BST, 9 April 2020 Madonna has taken to Instagram to post a strange video in which she claims … Read more
An intensive care doctor has revealed the stark reality of life at the NHS frontline against coronavirus as she admitted in a daily diary, ‘I can’t remember ever losing this many patients in a week’. Dr Jenny Abthorpe, who works as a registrar at a large London teaching hospital, said her unit was ‘incredibly busy’ … Read more
Thinking Again Jan Morris Faber £16.99 Rating: Back in 2001, Jan Morris, then aged 74, announced that she had just written her final book. Oh yes? By my calculation, she has produced another six books since then – or seven if you include this new one. She has never been a slave to consistency. Whenever … Read more
Cheryl Cole’s great-grandfather’s heroic First World War exploits are amongst the millions of digital records by the National Archives that will be made free to access for Britons amid the coronavirus lockdown. Alongside the diary of Joseph Wilson Ridley, who was part of Durham Light Infantry’s 11th Battalion, archives also include the Earl of Stafford’s … Read more