It could be four to five years before the Covid-19 pandemic is under control, a senior global health official has said. But with hopes of an end to the pandemic dependent on containing the virus and development of an effective vaccine, other experts have dampened expectations of putting a date on curbing the virus. There … Read more
Celebrity hairdresser Richard Ward — crimper to both real royalty and the showbiz variety — started to get panic-stricken messages quite soon into lockdown. Even from afar, he could sense that the colour had drained from his loyal clients’ faces, if not yet their hair, as the new reality hit home. ‘Lots of our clients … Read more
Emma Watson’s new ‘boyfriend’ is Californian business owner Leo Alexander Robinton, MailOnline can exclusively reveal. The actress, 30, who last starred in Oscar-nominated film Little Women, was pictured kissing a mystery man in London last October. The man in the photographs can finally be identified as Leo, 30, and it’s believed the relationship is so … Read more
It’s become a household name in the lockdown for connecting families and friends over video, hosting Cabinet meetings and even online gym classes. Now, The Mail on Sunday can reveal that a British software executive is among the bosses at American video-conferencing company Zoom who have made a fortune from the lockdown. Jonathan Chadwick has … Read more
Her vivid accounts from a hospital battling to cope with coronavirus have been terrifying and heartbreaking in equal measure. Here, in the doctor’s latest diary, read how the sheer weight of patient numbers means normal procedures to save lives have been all but abandoned… MONDAY: A man is dying but these days it’s no emergency … Read more
In the race to fight Covid-19, many businesses are pivoting from what they traditionally offer to provide essential services – generating a new income stream in the process. While Mercedes F1 engineers have turned their attention to producing ventilators for example, Brendan O’Shea’s business, Just Clear, has bolted on Covid-19 decontamination services in addition to … Read more
London Kills Rating: Putin: A Russian Spy Story Rating: Yikes, the gaffer isn’t looking too good. DI Bradford was sweaty, shiny-skinned and unshaven, as London Kills (BBC1) returned. The gruff detective has a sackful of secrets in his private life — is coronavirus one of them? His teenage daughter Carly discovered the truth on an … Read more
Belgravia Rating: Celebrity Murder Mystery Rating: How outdated it all seems, the emphasis on good breeding and the reverence shown to sons and nephews of earls in the Victorian London of Belgravia (ITV). It wouldn’t happen now, eh? But the aristocracy of tellyland is just as convoluted and interwoven as the family trees in Burke’s … Read more
The US will not be part of a new trial led by the World Health Organization examining which treatments work best against coronavirus. The so-called ‘SOLIDARITY trial’ will see researchers from several different countries compare the effects of different drugs on the highly-infectious disease. Included in the trial are remdesivir, originally conceived as a drug … Read more
Who’s a greedy cat? Adorable moment kitty sticks its head down a cardboard tube as it sniffs out a piece of chicken A camera caught one-year-old Simon’s greedy expression as he reached for food Video also caught sounds of the cat panting as it reached the hidden snack Owner Anastasia Sviridova set the camera trap … Read more