Sep 16, 2020
Ministers are poised to announce further localised measures, with pub curfews and a ban on households mixing across areas of the north-east from Friday. Sunderland, Gateshead, Newcastle, Northumberland, South Tyneside and County Durham are set to go back into lockdown after a surge in cases. The restrictions will cover two million people. Meanwhile, schools are drawing up […]
Aug 21, 2020
Five British holidaymakers will be forced to quarantine after EasyJet overbooked a flight from Croatia to London amid the scramble to get back to the UK before new restrictions kicked in. Jordan Martin, a construction quantity surveyor, and four other travellers were...
Aug 11, 2020
Maternity staff should get regular coronavirus tests, scientists have said, as a study reveals one in six have contracted the disease, with a third of cases asymptomatic. The fact that so many showed no signs of having caught the virus allowed them to go about the...
Jul 16, 2020
Coronavirus tests used by the NHS may be unsafe and have been halted, the government has announced. Matt Hancock, the Health Secretary is to make a statement in the House of Commons on Thursday afternoon about the problems with coronavirus kits, which could hamper...
Jul 7, 2020
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has dropped controversial plans to force workers to pay for coronavirus tests organised by their employers through their tax returns, on the eve of his coronavirus “mini-Budget”. HMRC guidance published this week had made clear that...
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