Am I an essential worker? The Government list of key workers
Food and other necessary goods Food chain workers, including those involved in production, processing, distribution, sale and delivery of goods....
Day: April 23, 2020
Coronavirus vaccine row grows as Matt Hancock says UK jab must go to British people first
A Government source said: "We have to strike a balance here. If another country is first to develop the vaccine...
Dialysis could be rationed amid shortage of machines to treat sickest coronavirus patients
Fiona Loud, the policy director at the charity Kidney Care UK, said: "This shortage must be treated as an exceptionally...
Coronavirus testing opened up to 10 million key workers and families
From Friday, employers will be able to register and refer key worker staff self-isolating because they or someone in their...
Coronavirus cases in China’s first wave might have been four times official figure, study finds
"Still, this would be an underestimate of the number of infections up to that point because it would not have...
I clap for carers – but the dos and don’ts of clap etiquette are getting more complicated by the week
It has become a heart-warming ritual: every Thursday night, at 8pm sharp, the nation steps outside its front doors and...
Does having cancer make me more vulnerable to coronavirus?
Senior doctors wrote to Matt Hancock this week calling for him to increase capacity in hospitals for cancer patients over...
UK pursues South Korean-style exit strategy with push on contact tracing
Britain will pursue a South Korean style exit strategy as the UK's testing star said 100,000 tests a day will...
‘The virus arrived – and my treatment stopped’ What it’s like to have cancer in lockdown
Over the next two weeks, I have to decide whether or not to go ahead with chemotherapy that could prolong...
Why a second coronavirus wave is on the horizon and what that means for the UK’s exit strategy
In a press conference beamed across the nation on March 12, a bullish Boris Johnson announced that the government’s coronavirus...
Social distancing due to coronavirus will ‘last for a year’ to prevent second wave
“The effectiveness of test, track and trace to keep the reproductive rate of this virus down is determined by the...
