Hospital intensive care no busier than normal, leaked documents show
Critcon levels 3 and 4 are enacted during a ‘full stretch’ and ‘emergency’, when other wards need to be used...
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Almost 20 per cent of adults are not social distancing, ONS figures show
Nearly a fifth of adults are failing to socially distance, with most people in local lockdown areas citing a loss...
Thousands of coronavirus deaths recorded by ONS not due to Covid, new figures show
Thousands of coronavirus deaths recorded by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) were not due to Covid, new figures show....
NHS compensation payouts have doubled in six years, figures show
NHS Payouts linked to medication blunders have doubled in six years, fuelling record spending, official figures show. Former health secretary Jeremy...
Test and trace missing Covid cases because virus can be transmitted five days before symptoms show
The estimates came from modelling, based on four papers which have examined timings of transmission and onset of symptoms. The...
Record number of patients waiting 18 weeks for NHS treatment, new figures show
NHS England figures also show that a total of 153,134 urgent cancer referrals were made by GPs in England in...
Mental health toll on NHS workers in lockdown revealed as first figures show staff absence rose by 165,000 days
"They have had leave cancelled, and their training has been put on hold. Many have worked more intense rotas. If...
Number of people with coronavirus antibodies a third lower than thought, figures show
PHE said the earlier figures had excluded samples from blood donors aged over 70, who had been banned from giving...
Coronavirus deaths drop by almost one third in a week, ONS figures show
The ONS said the pandemic is likely to have brought forward the deaths of some vulnerable or elderly people, which...
Coronavirus treatment from Synairgen hailed as ‘game changer’ after trial results show need for intensive care vastly reduced
Richard Marsden, CEO of Synairgen, said: "We are all delighted with the trial results announced today, which showed that SNG001...
Just 71 children have been admitted to intensive care units with coronavirus, first figures show
Seventy-one children have been admitted to the UK's intensive care units with Covid-19, of whom half had an underlying health...
Young people most likely to feel bored and lonely during coronavirus pandemic, ONS figures show
Dawn Snape, the assistant director of the ONS sustainability and inequalities division, said: "Younger people were generally more optimistic about...
Children as young as eight show susceptibility to adult diabetes, scientists warn
Children as young as eight are showing signs of susceptibility to adult diabetes, scientists have warned. Symptoms of the type...
Almost 13,000 unexplained deaths in England and Wales since coronavirus crisis began, figures show
Statisticians at Oxford and Cambridge universities said the numbers were now sufficiently worrying for an inquiry to be launched into...
Londoners most likely to work from home but least likely to check on neighbours, figures show
The percentage of workers who worked from home in London was the highest, at 60.6 per cent, followed by the...
Black people four times more likely to die from coronavirus than white people, ONS figures show
Speaking of the government’s plans to ease the lockdown from next week, Ms Grant added: “It’s especially scary as this...
BBC defends Panorama show that used Labour activists to criticise lack of PPE
The BBC has defended a Panorama programme which used Labour activists to criticise the Government’s “scandalous” PPE provision to the...
Care home deaths as high as hospitals and show no sign of slowing, experts warn
Coronavirus accounted for nearly 40 per cent of all deaths in the week up to April 17 in England and...
A third of NHS and critical workers tested have coronavirus, figures show amid fears over PPE shortages
A third of NHS and critical key workers tested for coronavirus are infected, new figures show, amid fears that personal...
Government seeks refund for millions of coronavirus antibody tests after trials show they are too unreliable for mass use
The Government will look for a refund for millions of coronavirus tests ordered from China after scientists found they were...
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Since Covid-19 emerged at the beginning of this year in China it has caused widespread devastation globally - infecting more...
Britain’s coronavirus death toll bigger than official figures show, experts warn
The UK death toll from coronavirus is likely to be far larger than that shown by official figures, experts have...
Questions over true death toll after London hospital records almost three times more deaths than official figures show
The official death toll for coronavirus is lower than the true number of casualties reported by hospitals, it was claimed...
how soon they show and what to look out for
The new coronavirus (Covid-19) is spreading fast. More than 467,000 people are known to be infected, and more than 21,000 deaths have been...
how quickly they show and what to look out for
The new coronavirus (Covid-19) is spreading fast. More than 421,000 people are known to be infected, and more than 18,800 deaths have...
how quickly do they show and what to look out for
The new coronavirus (Covid-19) is spreading fast. More than 204,200 people are known to be infected, and more than 8,200 deaths have...
