Spike in demand for protective equipment, takeaway food packaging and single-use water bottles during the coronavirus pandemic is leading to a worrying surge in plastic waste, researcher warns By Ian Randall For Mailonline Published: 12:37 BST, 16 April 2020 | Updated: 12:37 BST, 16 April 2020 A spike in demand for protective equipment, takeaway packaging … Read more
We are now firmly in week four of lockdown, and questions on how we should go about our daily lives, and the risks we face, remain important. We asked for your queries about the pandemic, which we then put to some of the country’s leading experts. Q. My neighbour has kindly left baked cakes on our … Read more
Beijing is exploiting the disarray caused by the Covid-19 epidemic to try to move a security-sensitive British technology company to China, a leading Tory MP said last night. Tom Tugendhat, chairman of the powerful Foreign Affairs Committee, said China was ‘using the cover’ of Boris Johnson’s illness to ‘launch a raid’ on Imagination Technologies, which … Read more
Revealed: Doctor leading Boris Johnson’s coronavirus treatment is one of the country’s foremost lung experts Dr Richard Leach, senior clinician at St Thomas’ , is overseeing PM’s treatment Colleagues waxed lyrical over the ‘brilliant doctor’ who had saved thousands Mr Johnson’s condition is stable and he remains in good spirits, No 10 said By Jack … Read more
West Ham chief Karren Brady reveals she is leading by example and taking 30 per cent pay cut to her £898,000 salary amid the coronavirus crisis… as she defends her earnings after coming under fire from fans on Twitter By Harry Slavin For Mailonline Published: 12:01 BST, 7 April 2020 | Updated: 16:39 BST, 7 … Read more
Scientist leading Sweden’s battle against coronavirus says Britain’s lockdown has gone too far as his country allows bars, restaurants and schools to remain open Sweden’s face in fight against coronavirus has kept bars and restaurants open Anders Tegnell said he was ‘disappointed’ when Britain abruptly altered strategy Country is relying on citizens to control virus … Read more
Most people have begun wearing gloves, masks and carrying hand sanitiser gels to avoid catching covid-19, however pet owners should be taking extra precautions, reveal two leading UK veterinarians. Dr Jessica May of FirstVet and Caroline Reay of BlueCross shared their advice for caring for four-legged friends throughout the ongoing pandemic. Speaking to FEMAIL, the … Read more
The UK gave up on containing the coronavirus outbreak ‘too soon’ because scientists assumed most people would become infected anyway, a leading expert has claimed. Devi Sridhar, professor of global public health at the Edinburgh University, said the assumption led officials to abandon measures that could help slow the pandemic. Those measures include mass testing and stringent contact … Read more
Britain must stay in total lockdown until June to properly prevent the full extent of the deadly coronavirus and social distancing could last for months, a senior health chief has warned. The country’s coronavirus death toll rocketed by 260 to 1,019 yesterday in the worst day the country faced yet. A total of 17,089 people tested … Read more
A top Edinburgh University professor predicted a coronavirus-like crisis two years ago and says that the government missed several opportunities to contain the pandemic. Devi Sridhar, 35, professor of global public health at the university, made the prediction to an audience at the Hay Festival in Hay-on-Wye, Wales in May 2018. She said that a … Read more