Labour today piled more pressure on Boris Johnson to shut down professional football after players flouted Covid-19 rules again and were accused of losing the ‘moral case’ to continue as infections rise and the NHS struggles to cope. Social distancing was abandoned at FA Cup games amid wild celebrations in packed dressing rooms at Chorley … Read more
Government has told the football authorities they have to get tough over breaches of Covid rules as it gets harder and harder to justify a sport associated with images of jubilant players quaffing champagne, while NHS doctors struggle to cope with sick patients. The juxtaposition of footballers ignoring social distancing rules on and off the … Read more
Britain’s coronavirus vaccination drive was hit by yet more chaos today after it was claimed doctors are having to throw away doses meant for patients who didn’t turn up and that elderly patients are having to queue outdoors in the freezing cold because the NHS’s IT systems keep crashing. The UK’s mass immunisation programme is … Read more
Boris Johnson today warned he is ready to tighten lockdown further as he voiced fears that vaccines have made people ‘complacent’ about obeying rules despite the NHS being on the brink of disaster. On a visit to the Ashton Gate vaccination centre in Bristol today, the PM revealed that 2.4million jabs have now been administered … Read more
Chris Whitty today warned the next few weeks are set to be the worst yet for the NHS as the government begs people not to ‘push the boundaries’ of the lockdown – and threatens to make it even tougher. The chief medical officer took to the airwaves to highlight the scale of the threat, saying … Read more
Britain’s Covid vaccine chaos: Doctors are forced to BIN doses ‘because people aren’t turning up for appointments’ and pensioners are having to queue for hours in the cold due to IT systems crashing By Sam Blanchard Deputy Health Editor For Mailonline Published: 11:08 GMT, 11 January 2021 | Updated: 11:27 GMT, 11 January 2021 Britain’s … Read more
Frail residents in the nation’s care homes have been betrayed by the slow rollout of the vaccine, it was claimed last night. Care providers say they have been ‘left in the dark’ and hit by outbreaks while waiting for jabs. Health Secretary Matt Hancock promised on December 10 that care home residents would be vaccinated … Read more
Matt Hancock raised fears of an even tougher lockdown to come today as he refused to rule out a swathe of new restrictions. The Health Secretary refused to speculate when directly asked if measures like curfews, limits to time allows outside homes and making masks compulsory outdoors might be brought in. He also ducked out … Read more
Boris Johnson wants to open 50 mass vaccination centres across the country within weeks to help hit his target of offering vaccines to nearly 14 million people by the middle of next month. There are already around 700 vaccination sites across the country, with seven national centres opening this week to turbo-charge efforts to get jabs to millions of … Read more
Greta Thunberg has rubbished Boris Johnson’s promises of a ‘green revolution’ after the government approved the use of a bee killing pesticide and a new coal mine. The Prime Minister has presented himself as being at the head of efforts to green the global economy with, for example, promises of huge reductions in greenhouse gas … Read more