Leading scientists have poured cold water on hopes the lockdown could be relaxed, warning the rate of new infections is still too high. Tacking to a containment strategy based on rigorous testing and contact tracing is widely touted as the route to easing restrictions. But the UK’s track-and-trace infrastructure would cripple under the load of daily … Read more
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that it was ‘unselfish’ of acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly to resign his post but noted he had ‘no role’ in getting rid of the official who caused a firestorm for his administration with his profanity-laced tirade to the crew of the USS Theodore Roosevelt. ‘I had no role in it,’ … Read more
Tokyo 2020 MUST be postponed warns senior Japanese Olympic Committee member Kaori Yamaguchi said Games must be delayed because athletes cannot prepare She is the first JOC board member to openly call for Games to be postponed Many major sporting events have been delayed because of the virus outbreak Coronavirus symptoms: what are they and … Read more
Get too close to snakes and chances are you’ll get bitten. It was with a certain squeamishness, then, that I plonked myself within yards of Whitehall grande fromaggios Sir Mark Sedwill and Sir John Manzoni at yesterday’s hearing in front of the public administration select committee. Sedwill and Manzoni. Sounds like a cruise liner cabaret … Read more