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Chris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers, said today lockdown cannot be lifted before summer because coronavirus infections need to plunge tenfold Lifting lockdown before the end of May is too dangerous and Covid cases need to plunge ten-fold before it is safe for society to reopen, NHS bosses have warned in a gloomy letter to the … Read more
Angela Merkel has warned Germany will see ten times as many Covid cases by Easter if they ‘don’t manage to stop this British virus’. The Chancellor told lawmakers in her conservative party that she expects the latest lockdown to last until April to stop the spread of a more-infectious mutant strain that first emerged in the … Read more
Marriage tax perk should be increased TEN-FOLD to £2,500 a year to reward stay-at-home spouses, think-tank says Married people earning under £12,500 can pass on part of allowance to spouse Think tank Onward want to increased this threshold to cover whole £12,500 of the Personal Allowance Change would ‘recognise families rather than just individuals in the … Read more
Britain’s delayed response to the coronavirus in March saw the epidemic accelerate faster then some European nations that locked down earlier, a study has found. A mathematical paper by Professor Christopher Dye of the University of Oxford looked at 30 nations and assessed their outbreaks based on Covid deaths. In the data, the researchers found … Read more
TALK OF THE TOWN: Anne Robinson proves she’s not the Weakest Link in property profit game after selling £500,000 South Kensington three-bed home for £5million By Alistair Foster, Joanna Bell And Sophie Cockerham For The Mail On Sunday Published: 00:01 GMT, 8 November 2020 | Updated: 00:10 GMT, 8 November 2020 Anne Robinson is certainly … Read more
Being a fast mover in the battle to beat Covid has paid off for Novacyt, a biotechnology tiddler listed on AIM that few retail investors had heard of at the start of the year. Things have changed dramatically since then, after the French group’s Southampton-based subsidiary, Primerdesign, developed one of the world’s first coronavirus tests … Read more
Thieves are increasingly stealing catalytic converters fitted to vehicles, sawing them off the underside of parked cars so they can sell the precious metals they’re made from. These devices are designed to reduce the pollution produced by car engines but have become easy targets for criminals who can make big money out of breaking them … Read more