Mass Covid testing plan to offer route out of lockdown
The first pilot scheme starting on Friday and offered to everyone in Liverpool, including schoolchildren. Tests will be provided in...
Day: November 2, 2020
‘Extremely vulnerable’ will be asked to stay at home as Government abandons shielding
Charities said it was not fair that those who were furloughed from their jobs would get 80 per cent of...
PFA backs call to make dementia in football an industrial disease
The Alzheimer’s Society on Monday posted a message of thanks to Sir Bobby and his family after they gave their...
How scientific ambiguity of outdoor Covid-19 infection has caused confusion in sport for months
Prof Gabriel Scally, president of the epidemiology and public health section of the Royal Society of Medicine, said governing bodies...
MIT develops new app which detects coronavirus by listening to your cough
Researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) system which they claim can detect coronavirus by analysing the sound of...
The new charity single that will help dementia sufferers in lockdown
When memory goes, and it is often gradually and sometimes spasmodically, words can become a jumble. But music retains its...
Tory MP Chloe Smith reveals breast cancer diagnosis and urges public to ‘check for lumps’
When Ms Smith won the Norwich North by-election in 2009 at the age of 27, she was the youngest MP...
‘I had a huge amount of guilt when I decided to stop being a doctor’
School is terrible, isn’t it? I don’t trust anyone who says it was amazing. When you’re 12, you’re not going...
How to stay active in later life, according to an 87-year-old marathon runner
A lifelong love of running began when Jones was called up for national service in 1951. When he joined the...
Test and Trace ‘struggling’ as public don’t answer phone to unknown callers, adviser says
"People don't answer their phones, people don't want to get a contact from an unknown number." Local contact tracing efforts...
Operations cancelled as hospitals come under pressure from Covid cases
“Still, anyone with cancer or stroke or heart disease symptoms should absolutely continue to seek help from the NHS, because...
