Staggering shift times, reducing face-to-face interaction and keeping lifts half-empty are some of the workplace measures the government is considering as it looks to ease the lockdown.
Month: May 2020
We are in the seventh week of lockdown and the government is now beginning to draw a roadmap of how we might navigate our way through this crisis now we have passed the peak of the epidemic.
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has urged the prime minister to form a “national consensus” on the next phase of the UK’s response to the coronavirus.
The trial of a contact-tracing app used to track COVID-19 infections will begin today on the Isle of Wight.
The “overwhelming majority” of patients who have recovered from coronavirus have been found to produce antibodies – but it is too early to say if they guarantee immunity, England’s deputy chief medical officer has said.
The number of people who have died with coronavirus in UK hospitals, care homes and the wider community has risen by 315, bringing the total number of fatalities to 28,446.
A father of three who survived COVID-19 has revealed how nurses gave him 15 minutes to call loved ones in case he never came out of intensive care.
Large numbers of young carers are struggling to cope with looking after their loved ones by themselves during the lockdown.
McDonald’s has said it is hoping to reduce the rent it pays to landlords as it slowly begins reopening its branches.
Vintage episodes of Coronation Street and Emmerdale are to be aired as the soap operas run out of new episodes.