‘Fourth tier’ of Covid restrictions beckons as scientists pressure Boris Johnson
Hospitalisations have already breached "reasonable worst case" levels, the papers show, and minutes from Sage warned that the NHS is...
Day: October 30, 2020
Passing of Nobby Stiles reinforces calls for neurological disease in football to be investigated as an industrial illness
The precise cause of dementia cannot be ascertained while former players are still living, but the Jarvis family donated Alan’s...
Justin Welby tells Boris Johnson not to ‘politicise’ child poverty
The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev Justin Welby, along with the Archbishop of York and other Christian leaders, has...
What are the potential exit strategies from Covid lockdown?
Devi Sridhar, professor of Global Public Health at the University of Edinburgh, said it was vital to drive numbers down...
First drug to halt the effects of Alzheimer’s could be available within a year
Further studies are now underway, which offer such doses to all eligible participants from the earlier trials. If successful, it...
Covid cases are not spiralling out of control, says King’s College
New figures released by the ONS also put the number of daily infections far lower than Imperial's figures. The ONS...
Long Covid sufferers ‘face psychiatric problems as well as pain and fatigue’
The guidance says: “Signs and symptoms may arise from any system in the body, often overlap, and may change over...
Pensioner and her leg treated at hospitals six miles apart
A 71-year-old's leg was saved after an eight-inch section of her shinbone was removed, taken for radiation treatment at another...
NHS Covid app risk level changed to force more people into self-isolation
The Telegraph understands that the Government is considering allowing a Christmas window in which families can meet, with lockdowns on...
