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 …
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Married NHS doctor is struck off after smacking the bottoms of two medical students and telling one ‘the only way to shut a woman up is to kiss her’ Dr Bassel Hayssam El-Osta was accused of smacking the bottoms of his victims He allegedly kissed one without her consent, saying …
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A restaurant manager for a new KFC, a part-time postie and Pizza Hut roles are among vacancies up for grabs on Teesside. Here’s our pick of the best jobs currently available on Teesside right now. Delivery drivers Hungry Jack’s Stockton The popular pizza chain is looking for delivery drivers with …
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The NHS has apologised after almost 1,000 patients were waiting longer than four hours for a bed in Hull’s A&E last month. Data from the NHS shows 973 people were left waiting more than four hours for a ward bed at Hull Royal Infirmary in January 2020, which is the …
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A Derbyshire asylum seeker says he has been “condemned to die” because the Home Office has rejected his application to stay in the UK. George Warkus has spent a decade working in the country as a cleaner but now suffers from such serious health conditions that he believes a return …
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The British scientist leading the fight against coronavirus admitted last night that predictions of 400,000 UK deaths are ‘not absurd’. Professor Neil Ferguson, of the School of Public Health at Imperial College London, revealed that ‘this is the one I’m scared of’ when asked about the killer coronavirus, which is …
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Desperate women are being charged up to four times the NHS price for HRT by online pharmacies, the Daily Mail can reveal. Doctors last night accused some chemists of cashing in on the nationwide shortage of the menopause treatment. Increasing numbers of patients are buying products privately online without seeing …
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The microbiologist who co-discovered Ebola and the presence of Aids in Africa warns that Britain is at risk of a ‘major’ coronavirus outbreak likely to become a pandemic. Professor Peter Piot, an ex-under-secretary-general of the UN who championed the fight against Aids, said he was ‘increasingly alarmed’ by the speed at …
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The UK’s third coronavirus patient is thought to be a Briton who caught the virus outside of China – sparking fears the outbreak is much more widespread than previously thought. Public Health England said the patient had not visited the mainland and instead caught the highly contagious virus ‘elsewhere in …
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A British evacuee from coronavirus-hit Wuhan today shared a glimpse of what life is like inside quarantine as he and 82 others spend their first day inside a nurses’ accommodation block in the Wirral. Matt Raw, who was part of a group flown in from China on Friday over the coronavirus outbreak, revealed that …
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