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Mayor agrees extra £10.5 million fund to tackle Covid-19
16Apr By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, London

Mayor agrees extra £10.5 million fund to tackle Covid-19

The Mayor of Tower Hamlets, John Biggs, has established a new £10.5 million fund using money received from a central government fund of £1.6 billion announced on 19 March that will support local authorities with some of the cost of supporting residents, businesses and local organisations tackling the impact of coronavirus. Councils are able to make their own decisions about how the funding is distributed locally. A new service investment fund (SIF) is the latest in the council's response to coronavirus and will focus on supporting vulnerable residents and those badly affected by a sudden loss in income. Providing extra money to support vulnerable people who may also have limited social and family networks will make up much of the funding, with further funding for others including rough sl...
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Plans to reopen schools outlined
16Apr By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

Plans to reopen schools outlined

    Ministers are today set to approve a three-week extension to the UK's coronavirus lockdown amid warnings that the country will have to practise social distancing until a vaccine is found. Professor Neil Ferguson told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: We will have to maintain some form of social distancing, a significant level of social distancing, probably indefinitely until we have a vaccine available. It came as Captain Tom Moore, the army veteran who set out to raise £1,000 for the NHS by doing laps of his garden 100 times ahead of his 100th birthday, completed his challenge, receiving more than £13million in donations. Meanwhile, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said that a total of 27 NHS workers have died since the start of the outbreak, including Mary Agyeiwaa Agy...
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First UK built ventilators arrive
14Apr By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

First UK built ventilators arrive

    The first UK-built ventilators backed by a consortium of leading manufacturers have been delivered to hospitals over the weekend, with another device now in final clinical trials. It is understood a number of ParaPac devices, made by Smiths Medical whose production lines have been boosted by the involvement of The Ventilator Challenge UK (TVUK) group were sent to wards across the UK in the last few days. Production of the model, which was already being built before the Covid-19 outbreak, was scaled up by the involvement of the consortium, which includes Formula One racing teams Mercedes, McLaren and Williams. The group, which also involves Rolls-Royce, Airbus, and BAE Systems, has also put its manufacturing and design muscle behind improving another ventilator, mad...
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Another 717 coronavirus patients die in UK hospitals
13Apr By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

Another 717 coronavirus patients die in UK hospitals

    Another 717 coronavirus patients have died in UK hospitals, taking the nationwide total to 11,329. It is the lowest increase recorded over the Bank Holiday weekend, after 980 on Friday, which surpassed the worst confirmed daily totals in Italy and Spain, 917 on Saturday and 737 on Sunday. The number of people who have been tested for COVID-19, the disease caused by coronavirus, rose to 290,720 following another 15,506 tests on Monday - with 88,821 having now tested positive in the UK. The figures were announced by the Department of Health. Updates were provided earlier by authorities in each home nation. NHS England announced another 667 coronavirus patients had died in hospitals in England, taking the total in the country to 10,261. Of those latest deaths, 118 o...
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Boris Johnson discharged from hospital
12Apr By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

Boris Johnson discharged from hospital

    Boris Johnson has been discharged from hospital but won't immediately return to work as he continues to recover from coronavirus, Downing Street has said. The prime minister will recuperate at Chequers, his official country retreat in Buckinghamshire, after spending almost a week at St Thomas' Hospital in central London. Mr Johnson was first admitted to hospital last Sunday night for tests. The action was taken due to the prime minister's coronavirus symptoms persisting for more than a week after he was first found to have contracted COVID-19. He was moved into intensive care when his health detriorated on Monday afternoon and he remained in critical care until Thursday, during which time he was supported with oxygen. In his absence, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab...
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Lockdown is making the kids v no kids divide wider
11Apr By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

Lockdown is making the kids v no kids divide wider

    Coronavirus has revealed a deep divide in our nation between the haves and have-nots. No, not those smug stockpilers sitting on stacks of toilet roll. The real gap that’s been brought to the fore is between those who have kids and those who don’t. It’s not like I never realised this huge difference before. Among my friends, there’s a sharp line in the sand(pit) between breeders and non-breeders. The former suggest meeting for lunch at 11.30am, the latter are sometimes just getting home from a night out at that time. There are those who have to schedule our meet-ups with military precision between naps and playdates, and those who do it around holidays, facials and all the ‘trivial’ things child-free people in their thirties do with their weekends (#sorrynotsorry). ...
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19 NHS staff deaths revealed
11Apr By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

19 NHS staff deaths revealed

    Britons have been urged to stick to coronavirus lockdown rules and resist visiting their local beach or park as temperatures were expected to soar to 26C in some areas over the Easter weekend. Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the Bank Holiday weekend will be a test of the nation’s resolve as he issued another warning to the public to “stay at home” and curb the spread of the virus. The warning comes a day after the UK recorded its highest daily death toll among Covid-19 hospital patients, with the total nearly at 9,000. Meanwhile, Boris Johnson is said to be making very good progress while being treated in hospital for coronavirus, where he spent three nights in intensive care .
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Inside one of UK’s worst-hit hospitals
10Apr By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

Inside one of UK’s worst-hit hospitals

    It's one of the worst affected hospitals in London and is now working at nearly four times its normal critical care capacity because of COVID-19. Wards at Croydon University Hospital in south London - like the one we have been invited to were once used for looking after elderly orthopaedic patients. Now, they are filled with those suffering from COVID-19 - a disease we still know so little about. Some of the stricken cough and wheeze into oxygen bags, and these are the less serious coronavirus patients. These patients have not had to be admitted to intensive care, they are not receiving mechanical breathing support, and there are no teams of alien-looking medics dressed head to toe in hazmat suits wearing goggles. This is an insight into an "ordinary" hospital war...
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PM leaves intensive care unit
9Apr By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

PM leaves intensive care unit

    Boris Johnson has been moved out of intensive care and back onto a ward, Downing Street has said. A No10 spokesman said: The prime minister has been moved this evening from intensive care back to the ward, where he will receive close monitoring during the early phase of his recovery. He is in extremely good spirits. The number of UK coronavirus deaths has surged by 891 overnight. NHS England reported 765 new hospital deaths on Thursday, with Wales announcing another 41, Northern Ireland announced four and Scotland an additional 81 since Wednesday. The updated tolls come as Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab chairs an emergency Cobra committee to discuss a likely extension of lockdown measures, while Prime Minister Boris Johnson's health continues to "improve" in inten...
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UK will have worst toll in Europe
8Apr By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

UK will have worst toll in Europe

    The IHME modelling forecasts that by 4 August the UK will see a total of 66,314 deaths an average taken from a large estimate range of between 14,572 and 219,211 deaths, indicating the uncertainties around it. The newly released data is disputed by scientists whose modelling of the likely shape of the UK epidemic is relied on by the government. Prof Neil Ferguson, of Imperial College London, said the IHME figures on “healthcare demand” including hospital bed use and deaths were twice as high as they should be. The IHME, which is responsible for the ongoing Global Burden of Disease study, calculated the likely need for hospital admissions and intensive care beds and projected deaths in European countries hit by Covid-19. Looking at the measures taken by the UK to cu...
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