Care home coronavirus deaths could be four times higher than official figures suggest
Speaking on ITV's Peston, Tobias Ellwood, the Conservative MP for Bournemouth East, raised concerns about coronavirus in care homes and...
Day: April 30, 2020
Ventilators bought from China could have caused ‘significant harm including death’, clinicians say
The doctors warned that the ventilators' oxygen supply was "variable and unreliable" and said the build quality was "basic". They added...
Children do not seem to transmit coronavirus, Public Health England expert says
She added that while it was unclear why this was the case, it was informing consideration of reopening schools for...
Obese people can lose weight by wearing weighted vests, new study shows
Obese people can lose almost 4lbs in under a month by wearing weighted vests, according to a new academic study in...
These are the health workers who have died from coronavirus
Barbara Sage, 68, from Bromley in south London, died in intensive care last Sunday after spending more than 40 years working in...
Remdesivir could help end coronavirus lockdown despite failure of Chinese trials, scientists say
Asked whether it could help end some lockdown restrictions, Professor Max Parmar, director of the medical research council clinical trials...
More people going to work as coronavirus lockdown frays, ONS survey reveals
As the lockdown headed towards its fifth week on April 9, people across the country were continuing to use well-established...
Covid-19 vaccine effectiveness could be known in less than six weeks, says University of Oxford scientist
He said the partnership would ensure the vaccine could be quickly rolled out, if it works. “Once we get an...
100 years through the eyes of the NHS’s fundraising hero
But that budding career was cut short when, in September 1939, prime minister Neville Chamberlain declared war on Germany. Moore...
Watch: Captain Tom Moore’s 100th birthday
The WWII veteran set out to walk around his garden 100 times to raise £1,000 for the National Health Service and...
