Restrictions have been placed on care homes across Tayside as authorities try to stem the spread of a coronavirus outbreak. Indoor visits to the premises are due to restart across
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The eviction ban has been extended for four weeks and landlords will have to give the majority of tenants six months’ notice to protect vulnerable renters hit by the coronavirus
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Families who lost loved ones to Covid-19 while they were working on the front line could be stripped of their social security payments, it has been claimed. Under the NHS
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People will be allowed to visit relatives and friends inside care homes in Wales next week if coronavirus conditions “remain favourable”, the Welsh Government has said. Indoor visits to care
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Government officials are not involved in decisions to discharge Covid-19 positive patients from hospitals to care homes, the First Minister has said. Nicola Sturgeon was pressed on the issue by
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It is a “national disgrace” that hundreds of thousands of people in supported living are not able to get regular coronavirus testing, a care sector leader has said. Community Integrated
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Nursing home staff are drained and daunted by the highs and lows of the coronavirus pandemic, one NHS worker has said. Carers were drafted in from the public sector to
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The Government is calling on more members of the public to register for future clinical trials into Covid-19 vaccines after an initial 100,000 volunteers signed up. The NHS Covid-19 Vaccine
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Ministers have been accused of seeking to deflect attention from their own handling of the coronavirus crisis after reports Public Health England (PHE) is to be broken up. The Covid-19
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A third of health trusts said they were not confident the current plans for testing would meet the needs of trusts and communities in the coming months, with one chief
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