Jul 19, 2020
A cluster of coronavirus infections has been confirmed at an NHS Test and Trace call centre in North Lanarkshire. Measures have been brought in by the region’s health board to try and suppress the outbreak, which flared up at the Sitel site in Motherwell. NHS Lanarkshire said it had been notified about “potentially linked cases” of Covid-19 infections in […]
Jul 19, 2020
But charities said more should have been done to get medical care up and running quickly when it became clear early on that the NHS was not stretched. Nightingale Hospitals in particular were largely empty even at the peak of the pandemic and have only recently been...
Jul 19, 2020
Cornwall’s top doctors fear hospital A&Es could be quickly overwhelmed by risk-taking tourists this summer as Britons head to UK beaches instead of going abroad. NHS doctors have warned tourists and residents alike must call NHS 111 before going to A&Es, to...
Jul 19, 2020
Patients without relevant medical conditions are requesting a note from their GP to exempt them from the Government’s face mask rules, doctors have warned, as their post-lockdown workload increases. GPs said patients had attempted to get their doctor to write them a...
Jul 19, 2020
A cholesterol-lowering drug could make coronavirus as treatable as the common cold, scientists have suggested. Researchers at New York’s Mount Sinai Medical Center looked at depriving the virus of nutrients which Covid-19 needs to survive. They found that fat which...
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