Homemade face masks can help limit the spread of coronavirus – but they do have downsides, according to a new study.
Month: May 2020
Victims of domestic abuse could be given a codeword to allow them to alert people such as shop workers that they are in danger.
Health workers in the UK will be able to be part of a clinical trial involving a drug touted by Donald Trump as a possible way to prevent the coronavirus.
The prime minister has rejected calls to scrap the health surcharge for overseas NHS and social care workers.
Britain’s hottest day of the year so far has led to many people flouting social distancing rules to hit the beach – with some coastal roads left “gridlocked”.
Twice as many people have died in care homes in England, Wales and Scotland during the coronavirus pandemic than would be expected in normal times, Sky News analysis has found.
Captain Tom Moore, who raised almost £33m for the NHS as it battled to cope with coronavirus, is to be knighted, Boris Johnson has said.
Boris Johnson should resist calls to ease the lockdown including reopening schools until a new system to trace the spread of coronavirus is a proven success, according to two members of the government’s scientific advisory council.
A woman whose remains were found in two suitcases in the Forest of Dean has been named as Phoenix Netts.
A senior minister has told Sky News that “wrong” advice at the start of the coronavirus outbreak could have led to mistakes in the government’s response.