Christmas is set to be an odd time of year this year, following a 12 months unlike any other. The lockdown will be eased slightly to allow households – up to three – to meet, with restrictions and measures eased by Prime Minister Boris Johnson. While households can mix indoors, …
Read More »Queen and rest of Royal Family WON’T be able to jump the queue for Covid vaccine
Queen and rest of Royal Family WON’T be able to jump the queue for Covid vaccine and even Boris Johnson will have to wait his turn Senior government source told The Telegraph there will be ‘no special treatment’ Guidance previously said care home residents and their carers will be top …
Read More »Millions of Britons stay home on Remembrance Sunday as commemorations move online
The Queen, Prince Charles and Prime Minister Boris Johnson led politicians and royals who paid their respects to Britain’s war dead at the Cenotaph on Sunday. Strict social distancing was in place to allow the ceremony to go ahead this morning as the country remains under a blanket second lockdown …
Read More »Coronavirus UK: New case numbers flat at 24,141 but lockdown resumes
Britain’s coronavirus cases remained flat at 24,141 today despite Boris Johnson justifying lockdown by claiming the NHS is under threat from soaring hospitalisations. There was increase of just 4.7 percent on last Thursday’s infections and a drop of 1,063 cases on yesterday’s figure of 25,177. Earlier the Prime Minister and …
Read More »UK bolsters economic support as England goes into lockdown
UK bolsters economic support as England goes into lockdown … with the likes of British Airways, Royal Mail and Rolls-Royce all laying off thousands. Source link
Read More »Coronavirus UK: Tory civil war as anti-lockdown MPs accuse PM of being ‘bounced’ into shutdown
Furious anti-lockdown Tory MPs last night accused Boris Johnson of allowing himself to be bounced into an England-wide shutdown after No10 binned its three-tier Covid-19 alert system. Conservatives were outraged that plans to plunge the country into a second shutdown were leaked to the Saturday papers, including the Mail, before …
Read More »Coronavirus England: Non-essential shops shut in second lockdown
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 …
Read More »Coronavirus UK: Sir Keir Starmer says lockdown should start NOW, not on Thursday
Sir Keir Starmer tonight called for a second national lockdown to start immediately as the Labour Party claimed vindication for calling for a ‘circuit-breaker’ two weeks ago. The Labour leader also indicated that his Party will back the Government in a vote on a new England-wide lockdown due to take place in …
Read More »Coronavirus UK: NHS models predict more deaths than SAGE estimates
England’s chief public health officials tonight unveiled grim graphs that show how all models of the coronavirus second wave predict the number of deaths will exceed SAGE’s ‘worst cases scenario’. At the heart of the scientific data supporting Boris Johnson’s decision to plunge England into a second lockdown was a …
Read More »UK national lockdown expected from Boris Johnson on MONDAY
Boris Johnson is expected to announce a national lockdown next week after his scientific advisers told him it was the only way to save Christmas. Scientists from the Sage committee yesterday presented No 10 with bleak figures showing that Covid is spreading ‘significantly’ faster than even their original ‘worst-case scenario’ prediction. …
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