Thousands of Bangladeshi clothes labourers were ordered home after arriving at work to find their factories remained shut, despite owners asking them to come in during a coronavirus lockdown. Staff arrived in Dhaka hoping to get paid for March and resume work after a 10-day break enforced by the government to tackle the spread of the … Read more
Everything around football is up in the air. The season has been suspended for weeks and it is unclear when – and if – it might return. As time goes on, there are more voices calling for the campaign to be called off amid the coronavirus crisis. They do not seem to factor in the … Read more
Shocking footage has revealed the chaos inside New York hospitals, with desperate doctors begging for more ventilators and medical equipment to help them tackle the growing crisis as the city’s death toll surged past 1,000 in the last 24 hours. New York state recorded 76,049 confirmed coronavirus cases by the end of Tuesday and 1,550 … Read more
Ministers are being told to get a grip on coronavirus testing as the health secretary closes a loophole that left thousands of its unused and a vast NHS swabbing station stood deserted. Matt Hancock tonight intervened to end the embarrassing situation in which the number of tests carried out is short of capacity. A source … Read more
Davina McCall has admitted home schooling her three teenagers during the coronavirus lockdown is ‘chaos’. The TV presenter made a video call to ITV’s This Morning on Monday from her house and gave an update on life in self isolation with her children Holly, 18, Tilly, 16, and Chester, 13, who she shares custody of … Read more
‘This is STILL how I have to travel to work’: Furious NHS nurse tweets snap of packed Tube while fury at Sadiq Khan grows as life-threatening chaos rolls into SECOND week of coronavirus lockdown Network busy again today – on day seven of lockdown – with people packed ‘like sardines’ on Tube and buses London … Read more
The RAF could be called in for a a massive coronavirus rescue mission to bring stranded Britons home this week, it was claimed today. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab is expected to announce a huge repatriation effort as early as tomorrow amid mounting fears over safety. RAF voyager transport planes could be deployed to bring UK … Read more
Government’s contain and delay plan FAILED because ministers did not follow WHO advice to ‘test, test, test’ for coronavirus cases leaving NHS in ‘chaos and panic’, Lancet editor says Richard Horton, editor of The Lancet, argued numerous warnings were ignored He added that Government’s Contain-Delay-Mitigate-Research plan had failed Total of 759 people have now died … Read more
Working in an NHS hospital, you get used to gruelling 13-hour shifts that leave you wrung out from exhaustion. Yet somehow, even when things are difficult, my colleagues and I have always coped. Until now. A doctor on the frontline of Britain’s coronavirus response has shared their day-to-day experience as the number of cases in … Read more
Chaos for the housing market as banks stop mortgage lending and Michael Gove tells home-buyers ‘don’t exchange contracts’ Michael Gove urged people to stay put and not move house during pandemic Lenders have also stopped mortgage lending, throwing housing market in chaos Moving companies are cancelling jobs during crisis, making moves impossible Coronavirus symptoms: what … Read more