Tag Archives: Coronavirus

Teenagers could be forced to sit exams during the summer holidays if coronavirus temporarily shuts schools, education sources warned last night. But their grades could be inflated to compensate for missed lesson time, according to one teacher trying to answer parents’ creeping concerns over the fate of their children’s learning.     …

An army of NHS volunteers is being called up to help tackle the coronavirus menace. With Boris Johnson warning of a ‘mass epidemic’, officials are urgently trying to speed up the six-month process of becoming a hospital volunteer. Helpers could be asked to feed patients, ferry them around wards or …

Boris Johnson visited Public Health England’s infection control HQ after hailing frontline NHS staff as the UK’s ‘greatest asset’ in the face of the coronavirus outbreak. Speaking during a visit to PHE’s National Infection Service in Colindale, London, the Prime Minister said the killer disease is likely to ‘spread a bit more’. He …

Student exchange company is slammed for ‘irresponsible’ begging letter asking Australians to take in quarantined Chinese teenagers – even though it could expose their own families to coronavirus Appeal to host families to temporarily take in students returning from China Looking for hosts who could house students under-18 who needed …

Fears for scores of cancer patients at the NHS hospital were sparked today after a clinician at a Hertfordshire hospital was revealed as one of the 13 latest coronavirus cases in the UK. More than a half a dozen members of staff at Mount Vernon Cancer Centre in Northwood have …

Swathes of Britain including cities and towns could be put on lockdown to try to stop the spread of coronavirus as Boris Johnson vowed to take charge of the Government response after being accused of acting like a ‘part-time Prime Minister’.  After UK cases hit 36 yesterday – an increase of 23 since …

Health officials are desperately trying to find coronavirus carriers unwittingly spreading the deadly illness. They fear the individuals have only mild symptoms and do not realise they are infected. The crisis deepened yesterday when 13 new cases were reported – bringing the number in the UK to 36. The total …

An elderly man who contracted coronavirus on board the Diamond Princess cruise ship off Japan has become the first Australian to die of the disease.  The 78-year-old man boarded the doomed cruise in Perth with his wife Iris, who also contracted the virus. The man died at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital …

A Gold Coast beautician who was diagnosed with coronavirus after she returned from Iran could have infected up to 40 people in Australia. The woman, 63, works at Hair Plus salon, in the Australia Fair shopping centre in Southport and fell ill at work on Thursday.  She is currently ‘in …

Australia has secretly hoarded $100million worth of medical supplies in case of a pandemic and the stockpile is now being deployed for the coronavirus. The federal Health Department’s National Medical Stockpile contains 20 million single-use face masks, antibiotics and pallets of hand sanitiser accumulated over a decade. The stockpile is …