Aug 4, 2020
The Department of Health and Social Care said it was working closely with local authorities and had “assigned a ring-fenced group of NHS contact tracers to follow up positive cases” in Blackburn with Darwen. Council workers are assigned to knock on doors in cases where such efforts fail. Officials in Greater Manchester are understood to […]
Aug 4, 2020
Prof Chris Gale, professor of cardiovascular medicine at the University of Leeds, and senior author of the study, added: “This national picture provides evidence for the devastating impact that the Covid-19 pandemic has had on people’s lives.”...
Aug 4, 2020
The advice comes despite concern from health officials and scientific advisers in recent months that coronavirus infections in the community are being fuelled by transmission within healthcare settings. The letter from NHS England to all GPs said practices must now...
Aug 4, 2020
Alan Price, the CEO of BrightHR, which provides HR support for 33,000 small and medium businesses, said most were not yet requiring all their employees to return, largely due to social distancing measures and childcare concerns. Mr Price added that, for smaller...
Aug 4, 2020
Women who take the pill are less likely to develop serious coronavirus, a major new study has found, helping to explain why men have suffered worse from the disease. Analysis of more than half a million women during May and June by King’s College London has identified...
Aug 4, 2020
Ministers proposing the scheme say it will apply to far more people than the 2.2 million who were told to shield from March onwards, but would be more “sophisticated” and tailored to individual circumstances. People in their 70s, for instance, may be told...
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