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Amazon, Boots and Royal Mail will help administer and process the tests. Seb James, UK and Ireland managing director of Boots, said the high street … Source link

The former IBM factory near Glasgow has become Britain’s second crisis hospital as the building has been offered to NHS Scotland in the battle against coronavirus. It comes as the ExCel Centre in Newham, East London, was kitted out with 4,000 beds and two morgues amid the Covid-19 crisis.  Britain’s …

Rishi Sunak’s multi-billion-pound coronavirus bailout has left hundreds of thousands of self-employed workers ‘close to a cliff edge’. The Chancellor unveiled a scheme handing out cash grants worth up to £2,500 a month, in a boost for taxi drivers, musicians, gig economy workers and freelancers. Many welcomed the move but some have …

Home Office reveals new powers to tackle people flouting the coronavirus lockdown  Up to two years in prison if you cough deliberately on someone after spate of attacks on police and emergency service workers People who continue to flout coronavirus lockdown rules will be breaking the law and can be …

PUBLISHED: 07:30 27 March 2020 Oliver Sullivan The World Health Organisation said the chances of contracting coronavirus from packages delivered in the post is low Picture: STEVE PARSONS/PA PA Archive/PA Images Households across the country are improving their cleaning regimes in a bid to stop the spread of coronavirus – …

Compared to their grandparents, the effects of Covid-19 on our children will be relatively small. But only in the short term. In the longer term, the effects of the pandemic – or more accurately its economic consequences – are likely to resemble those experienced by children who grew up in …

Buckingham Palace scrapped a national televised address about coronavirus from the Queen ‘for her own safety’ and to keep the airways clear for politicians and medical professionals, a royal expert has claimed. Last week Her Majesty, 93, issued a statement on the outbreak, saying the UK is ‘entering a period of …

Fury at Boris Johnson as it emerges No10 only asked on SUNDAY for research labs to lend the government vital coronavirus equipment – despite pledging mass testing a week ago Experts including the WHO say mass testing is crucial to combat coronavirus  Downing Street wrote to research labs on Sunday …

Salford community came together to help officers at Eccles Police Station after they ran out of essential cleaning equipment. Sergeant Mike Lawrence took to Facebook to post that the their department had a limited supply of a cleaning and protective gear to keep their staff and office free of infection …

Lynn’s Mill House Veterinary Surgery and Hospital has said it’s there to help, but it has had to review the services it can offer due to the coronavirus pandemic. Human health and prevention of disease transmission is a priority, it said following the Government’s announcement that people should stay at …