The rise in hate crimes against Chinese people in the UK is “totally unacceptable” and offenders should face “the strongest possible consequences”, the shadow home secretary has said.
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The return of Premier League football would “lift the spirits of the nation”, the foreign secretary has said.
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.
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.
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.
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 trial of a contact-tracing app used to track COVID-19 infections will begin today on the Isle of Wight.
Large numbers of young carers are struggling to cope with looking after their loved ones by themselves during the lockdown.
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.
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.