Prime Minister Boris Johnson has spent the night in hospital after he was admitted for tests as his coronavirus symptoms persist. He will stay for “as long as needed” in
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More than a dozen residents at a Scottish care home have died in a week and their families have been told of a possible link to Covid-19. A total of
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The Prince of Wales has hailed the new NHS Nightingale hospital as a “practical message of hope” for coronavirus patients during a “time of national suffering”. Charles opened the temporary
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Labour has demanded social care workers are urgently given the protective equipment they need to keep them safe from Covid-19. Shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth (pictured) and shadow health minister
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Questions are being asked about the involvement of health officials in England over the collapsed deal to supply Covid-19 testing equipment to the NHS in Wales. The row over testing
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Care homes could be priced out of sourcing personal protective equipment (PPE) by “unethical” suppliers seeking to cash in on the coronavirus crisus, one English provider has said. The Surrey-based
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Children living with domestic abuse should be classed as victims of crime, with levels feared to “grow sharply” during the coronavirus outbreak, the victims’ commissioner said. Dame Vera Baird said
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Dozens of MPs are backing a fundraiser to secure £1 million for care workers who are forced to self-isolate during the coronavirus pandemic. The fundraiser has already seen more than
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The family of a 13-year-old boy, the first known child to die in the UK after testing positive for coronavirus, said they have been left “beyond devastated”. Ismail Mohamed Abdulwahab’s
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Care workers and community nurses are still struggling to do their jobs safely and with adequate protective gear, with experts saying they are “frustrated at the lack of pace”. Weeks
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