A 55-year-old hospital consultant has become the first frontline NHS worker to die after testing positive for coronavirus. Amged El-Hawrani was an ear nose and throat (ENT) specialist at Queen’s Hospital Burton but, before he became unwell, he had also been volunteering in A&E. Dr El-Hawrani – who was described …
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Jobs for help desk staff at London’s new field hospital are being advertised for £13,500 more than the average nurse’s salary. The NHS Nightingale Hospital is due to open this week at the ExCeL Centre in east London, providing up to 4,000 extra coronavirus patient beds. But online job adverts …
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It must have been a shock for anybody who had their food packages delivered by Jose Mourinho this week. Royal Mail might have coined the phrase but this truly was a special delivery. The Tottenham manager volunteered to help out the elderly amid the coronavirus crisis. Mourinho’s effort was an …
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The King of Thailand has taken a harem of 20 concubines with him into self-isolation at a grand hotel in southern Germany, it has been reported. King Maha Vajiralongkorn, also known as Rama X, is believed to have booked out all of the Grand Hotel Sonnenbichl in Bavaria to self-isolate …
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Prince Harry was ‘devastated’ at having to give up his post as Captain General of The Royal Marines and said the ‘decision was forced on him’ after stepping back from royal duties Prince Harry ‘regretted’ having to stand down from his role in the military felt Royal ‘forced into it’ …
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The owners of more than 600 3D printers have answered Britain’s call to arms and started to produce thousands of visors for the NHS. The masks, which protect doctors and nurses treating coronavirus patients, are being delivered to hospitals across the country. It comes after several hospitals on the frontline of the outbreak reportedly …
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A Royal footman who worked closely with the Queen has ‘tested positive for the killer coronavirus’. The man, who has not been named, is self-isolating at home but it has raised questions over whether he came into contact with Her Majesty while infected. Buckingham Palace aides have confirmed the Queen, 93, …
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Princess Maria Teresa of Spain has died aged 86 after testing positive for coronavirus. The princess, of the Bourbon-Parma Royal Family in Spain, passed away yesterday her younger brother, Prince Sixtus Henry of Bourbon-Parma, announced. She was born in Paris, France on July 28, 1933 to parents, Prince Xavier and Madeleine …
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Police have dumped black dye into a picturesque blue lagoon in the Peak District to stop Instagrammers posing for snaps during the coronavirus lockdown. Derbyshire Police, who last week tracked dog walkers and ramblers through the hillsides with drones, had been informed that people were continuing to congregate beside the …
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The home of Welsh rugby union is to be turned into the fourth emergency hospital to deal with an onslaught of coronavirus cases. The Principality Stadium has been offered to NHS Wales as a makeshift field hospital to provide 2,000 extra beds should hospitals in the Cardiff area become overwhelmed. …
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