A widow was forced to say goodbye to her dying husband by leaving a message with a nurse over the phone – after he tested positive with coronavirus despite having no symptoms. Pat Pearce, 75, asked a nurse to tell Allan, her partner of 38 years, she was sorry she couldn’t be with him and … Read more
Healthcare assistant Nathalie Hoover was filmed at at Cambridge University hospital as she donned her protective gear before heading onto the ward.
Culture minister Oliver Dowden tells Britain’s 100 biggest brands including Tesco, Sky and Amazon to allow adverts to appear next to coronavirus news stories as he describes news as ‘the fourth emergency service’ Culture secretary Oliver Dowden sent letters to companies including Amazon Visits to news sites have spiked recently as people head to trusted … Read more
When the COVID-19 crisis canceled their April trip to Vietnam, four-time Grammy nominee Jeezy decided to ‘bring Vietnam’ to his March 27 proposal to The Real co-host Jeannie Mai while still at home in quarantine. ‘As I walked in, he started to describe that I was stepping into a dinner in Vietnam,’ the 41-year-old bride-to-be … Read more
A Wisconsin woman who tested positive for Covid-19 described how she went to the emergency room at least twice and suffered from several troubling symptoms. Amy Shircel, 22, revealed her diagnosis to Twitter users in a thread that has since gone viral with more than 214,000 likes. It’s not clear when Shircel first began feeling symptoms, but … Read more
A grief-stricken son has today described the ‘pure torture’ of watching his 83-year-old mother ‘suffocate to death’ because of coronavirus and now he has to self-isolate from his three children. Michael Hardy, 47, watched his 83-year-old mother Rachael pass away at Northwich Park Hospital, Harrow, after the killer virus ravaged her lungs and left her gasping … 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
A 40-year-old tech boss has told how he watched helplessly as two patients died in front of him as he fought coronavirus in intensive care. Jozef Wallis, a fit and healthy father-of-two, began feeling ill after a night out in the pubs around London Bridge station two weeks ago. Despite suffering a raging fever and … Read more
An intensive care specialist has described how one person with coronavirus could infect up to 59,000 others – as the virus is more than twice as infectious as flu. Dr Hugh Montgomery, a professor of intensive care medicine at University College London, explained how the virus could be passed from one person to thousands as … Read more
What is the coronavirus? A coronavirus is a type of virus which can cause illness in animals and people. Viruses break into cells inside their host and use them to reproduce itself and disrupt the body’s normal functions. Coronaviruses are named after the Latin word ‘corona’, which means crown, because they are encased by a … Read more