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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

A British evacuee from coronavirus-hit Wuhan last night shared an image from inside quarantine as he and 82 others spent their first night locked in a nurses’ accommodation block in the Wirral.  Ben Kavanagh is part of a group flown in from China over the coronavirus outbreak who will be holed up …

This is the NHS hospital where Britain’s first two coronavirus patients are being quarantined to stop the deadly disease sweeping the country. The two family members, believed to be Chinese nationals, were rushed into isolation at a specialist unit at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle this morning.  Access to …

Two members of the same family have tested positive for coronavirus in England. The first cases of the virus to be diagnosed in the UK were announced as more than 80 Britons on an evacuation flight from the Chinese city at the centre of the outbreak were due to land …

Patients confirmed to have been infected with coronavirus have been treated at a contagious disease facility in Cottingham. Two patients were being looked after by a team of medics at the specialist unit inside Castle Hill Hospital before being transferred to Newcastle. Sources told Hull Live that hospital staff were …