People in Liverpool fear no one will believe the Covid test results they receive in a mass swabbing scheme set to start this week, as experts admit the trial will not catch every case. Starting this Friday, the city’s 500,000 residents will be asked to go for regular Covid-19 checks in the first major step … Read more
Lockdown locks-down! Boris Johnson finds time to have a quick trim… before plunging Britain into second shutdown that will last until at least December 2 England is set to go into a second coronavirus lockdown from Thursday morning Hairdressers and beauty salons are among the businesses being forced to close Boris Johnson was spotted sporting … Read more
SAGE advisers’ estimates of how many people are catching Covid-19 each day actually went down at the end of October, despite Boris Johnson forcing the nation into another lockdown amid fears the virus was out of control. In a slide shown in the Prime Minister’s gloomy TV briefing, chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance pointed … Read more
Professor Andrew Hayward, an infectious diseases expert at University College London, said he had a ‘high degree of certainty’ thousands of unnecessary Covid-19 deaths would occur as a consequence of not imposing a circuit breaker lockdown Thousands of coronavirus deaths in the coming weeks could have been prevented if ministers bowed to pressure for a … Read more
The claim that 4,000 people could be dying from coronavirus by next month could be four or five times too high and not reflect the current situation, experts warn. The shocking figure was presented by chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance in Saturday’s TV briefing where Boris Johnson announced the UK’s second lockdown. But there … Read more
Ranvir Singh has admitted Strictly Come Dancing was ‘touch and go’ following Boris Johnson’s national lockdown announcement on Saturday evening. Fans breathed a sigh of relief when the BBC show aired on time at 7:15pm with barely a minute to spare following the Prime Minister’s delayed press conference. Speaking on Monday’s Good Morning Britain, Strictly … Read more
Questions were raised yesterday over the dossier that helped tip England into lockdown with its grim prediction of 4,000 deaths a day. The projection by Cambridge University in conjunction with Public Health England (PHE) is thought to have drastically shifted Downing Street’s thinking. It was among a number of predictions shown to the nation during … Read more
Rishi Sunak was reluctant to agree to the second national lockdown in light of the threat to the economy and the huge £5 billion cost of furlough, sources said last night. The Chancellor was one of those at the Downing Street meeting on Friday which decided to go ahead with new restrictive measures. A source … Read more
BBC refused Downing Street’s plea to push back the start time of Strictly Come Dancing for Boris Johnson’s very delayed national lockdown broadcast By Amelia Wynne For Mailonline Published: 22:54 GMT, 1 November 2020 | Updated: 22:54 GMT, 1 November 2020 The BBC refused to delay Strictly Come Dancing for Boris Johnson‘s national lockdown broadcast … Read more
Key points in COVID lockdown Mark 2 Restrictions will start at midnight on Thursday morning and last until December 2. People can only leave their homes for specific reasons, such as to do essential shopping, for outdoor exercise, and for work if they are unable to work from home. Non-essential shops will be told to shut, … Read more