Five London bus workers die from coronavirus: Sadiq Khan hits out at commuters who refuse to stay at home and says 'lives depend' on following government rules after 'devastating' deaths
Sadiq Khan has hit out at commuters who are refusing to stay at home despite Government rules after the deaths of five London bus workers who tested positive for Covid-19. The mayor of the capital said he was 'absolutely devastated' following the coronavirus deaths. He tweeted a statement saying that 'lives depend' on people following Government rules to stay at home unless travel is essential.
Boris Johnson warns G20 countries against acting in their own interests in Covid-19 battle as Germany accuses US of 'modern day piracy' after 200,000 face masks destined for Berlin were intercepted at Bangkok Airport and flown to America instead
Mr Johnson (top right) alongside Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab have warned against 'damaging protectionism' in the face of the global health crisis, with Mr Raab insisting international 'teamwork' is the way forward. It comes as protective face masks destined for Berlin have been allegedly intercepted at a Thailand airport and diverted instead to the US (Trump pictured, bottom right). Angry German officials have blasted Donald Trump for the move, accusing Washington of 'modern day piracy'. The shipment of 200,000 FFP2 and FFP3 masks were made by the US company 3M which has a factory in China. German officials allege the protective equipment was intercepted at Bangkok Airport and instead flown to the US. It comes after French officials accused the US of offering cash on the tarmac at three times the going rate to take their shipment of face masks (Left, boxes are unloaded from an Antonov 124 aircraft transporting 10 million face masks ordered by France from China).
Third nurse dies after treating patients with killer virus: Medic, 23, collapses at home after 12-hour shift as his mother reveals he had not been wearing the right protective clothing at work
A young NHS nurse who died after treating stricken coronavirus patients had fallen ill at work but was not allowed to go home because his ward was so short-staffed, his heartbroken mother claimed last night. John Alagos (pictured left), 23, the third nurse and the youngest British medic believed to have succumbed to the deadly Covid-19 virus, collapsed and died at home after an exhausting 12-hour shift. His mother, Gina Gustilo, 50, told The Mail on Sunday her son had not been wearing the right protective clothing at work. He returned home on Friday following a night shift, after complaining of suffering a headache and high temperature throughout the night. A tearful Mrs Gustilo said: 'I asked 'Why didn't you come home?' He said he had asked other staff but they said they were short of staff and they did not let him go. I said, 'OK, take some paracetamol.' After a few minutes, I found him turning blue in his bed.' Top right: NHS nurse Aimee O'Rourke and bottom right: Areema Nasreen who both died treating coronavirus patients.
Not another peak-just less of a reduction after the peak. Better a limited number get it in the Summer rather than a massive spike in December.
Things will get better-look at China. Or the entire history of the world.
Besides, there are limits as to how long the country can withstand lockdown, both mentally and financially.
Likeliest outcome:-worse in April, improvements in May OR June, reduction (not removal) of lockdown, minor spike in the Autumn, then world gradually returns to normal.
I don't know if you saw Professor Lockdown on Marr, this morning?
He made three points very clearly.
How to end a lockdown is probably the most important question worldwide.
No country in the world currently has a strategy for ending a lockdown.
Ending the lockdown while case numbers are still high, would result in case numbers resurging faster than we had seen before.
Not another peak-just less of a reduction after the peak. Better a limited number get it in the Summer rather than a massive spike in December.
Things will get better-look at China. Or the entire history of the world.
Besides, there are limits as to how long the country can withstand lockdown, both mentally and financially.
Likeliest outcome:-worse in April, improvements in May OR June, reduction (not removal) of lockdown, minor spike in the Autumn, then world gradually returns to normal.
I don't know if you saw Professor Lockdown on Marr, this morning?
He made three points very clearly.
How to end a lockdown is probably the most important question worldwide.
No country in the world currently has a strategy for ending a lockdown.
Ending the lockdown while case numbers are still high, would result in case numbers resurging faster than we had seen before.
Matt Hancock, also appeared on Marr this morning.
He made it absolutely clear that he didn't have a clue on how to end the lockdown.
News of Boris Johnson's admission to hospital prompted a number of papers to update their front pages overnight, knocking the Queen's address to the nation out of the top headlines. The Daily Telegraph says the statement from Downing Street was "unexpected", coming just hours after ministers insisted there'd been no change in his condition. According to the paper, some members of the cabinet have privately "expressed concern" over whether Mr Johnson can still run the government, despite official assurances that he remains in charge.
One minister is said to have told a fellow MP that the Prime Minister is "having to sleep and rest a lot" because of his high temperature. The Guardian reports that the update came after "days of rumours" about the prime minister's health. The paper claims it was told last week that Mr Johnson was "more seriously ill than either he or his senior officials were prepared to admit". A number of papers carry a photograph of staff at the Princess Alexandra hospital in Essex paying tribute to 54-year-old Lynsay Coventry - the first NHS midwife confirmed to have died from coronavirus in England. Lining the sides of a hospital corridor, still wearing their surgical masks, staff fell silent to remember a dedicated colleague, who'd helped hundreds of women bring their babies into the world, the Daily Mail says. The Guardian reports on a warning from scientists that antibody testing kits, hailed by Boris Johnson as a "game changer" in the fight against coronavirus, could in fact be "unreliable". It was hoped the kits, resembling pregnancy tests, would allow people who have had the virus to return to the workplace - but the paper says experts now think they may fail to detect up to half of coronavirus cases. One of the scientists involved has told the paper that the sensitivity of all the tests on the market was "relatively low" for people with mild symptoms - the exact group the tests were intended for.
The Daily Mirror and the Sun pick out the same message for their headlines: "We will meet again". For the Daily Mail, the historic address evoked memories of Vera Lynn and "Britain's Blitz spirit". The Guardian's sketch writer John Crace says the monarch's address delivered the "clear moral leadership" that many political leaders have failed to provide in the current crisis. There's only a certain amount a head of state can say in times like these, he writes, but any reference to the government's efforts to tackle the outbreak were notably absent.
The main story across all of the papers is Boris Johnson's move to intensive care late on Monday evening. In the words of the Daily Mail, the drastic step was taken because the stricken prime minister was struggling to breathe. According to the Daily Mirror, there are concerns that he could have pneumonia. The Times says the deterioration in Mr Johnson's condition was rapid. It quotes sources at St Thomas's Hospital near Westminster who say he needed four litres of oxygen - below the normal threshold in intensive care of 15 litres. The prime minister, it adds, has not been intubated, where a tube is inserted into the windpipe before ventilation.
'Uncompromising' karate black belt HuffPost UK offers a guide to Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, who is deputising for the PM "where necessary". Describing the 46-year-old karate black belt as an uncompromising figure who has rarely strayed from his dedication to leaving the EU. The son of a Czech-born Jewish refugee who fled the ****, Mr Raab has spent much of the past month trying to get Britons repatriated from far-flung corners of the globe. Elsewhere, the Financial Times says big decisions loom for the government, as the outbreak reaches its peak and ministers start to grapple with how and when to start relaxing the lockdown. The paper's leader column argues that governments which have rightly decided to close down their economies have only "a very few months" before the costs and social unrest become "unbearable". Make these lockdowns work, it says, "all the blundering of recent months has to end".
According to the Daily Telegraph, ministers are scrambling to formulate a new exit strategy for the lockdown, following warnings from experts that mass testing cannot be introduced for at least a month. More than three million antibody tests - which show if someone has already had Covid-19 - were ordered two weeks ago and hailed as "game-changing" by the prime minister. But the government's scientific adviser says they have so far failed. Matt's cartoon has a park bench with a plaque dedicated to "Mark and Anne who were fined for sitting here during lockdown, April 2020".
'No change' in Boris Johnson's condition: PM remains in intensive care as it’s revealed he needed four litres of oxygen after his breathing deteriorated in just hours and was hospitalised following video call that shocked Cabinet
Boris Johnson was moved to ICU at St Thomas' Hospital in central London (pictured top and bottom right today) and given oxygen after his health deteriorated sharply over just two hours, leaving doctors fearing he will need a ventilator. The 55-year-old was transferred to intensive care at 7pm because of breathing difficulties - forcing him to 'deputise' Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab to take the reins of government. In a round of broadcast interviews this morning, Cabinet minister Michael Gove said Mr Johnson was getting the 'best care'. 'As we speak the PM is in intensive care being looked after by his medical team receiving the very, very best care from the team in St Thomas' and our hopes and prayers are with him and with his family,' he told BBC Breakfast. Mr Gove played down concerns that the government will be paralysed with the leader out of action. 'The Cabinet is the supreme decision making body,' he said. The Queen is being kept informed about Mr Johnson's condition, while Mr Raab will chair a meeting of the government coronavirus task force this morning. The PM's sharp downturn came 11 days after he first suffered coronavirus symptoms and went into isolation. He looked increasingly unwell when glimpsed in public and in 'selfie' videos posted on on social media, and ministers were then shocked by his grim appearance at a Zoom conference on Sunday.
'Lockdown won't end until we are SURE the peak has passed': Now Prof Chris Whitty plays down suggestions disease will hit its height this weekend - and claims antibody tests won't be key to getting UK moving
Professor Chris Whitty said that discussions about moving on to the next stage of the response to the pandemic would be premature until the nation has passed the peak number of deaths (pictured: hospital admissions in the UK, left; Whitty, right; and the latest figures, inset). He downplayed reports that this figure could be reached this weekend as he returned to fronting the daily news conference, following a week in self isolation. Flanking Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab he also warned people not to expect too much, too soon, from antibody tests that could give those who have had coronavirus and built up immunity, a way to return to normal life.
'Do your bit for the country and FIX this!': Furious key workers rage at Sadiq Khan as overcrowded Tubes farce rolls into THIRD week of coronavirus lockdown
Angry London commuters today called the situation 'ridiculous' and a 'mess' as they shared pictures of crowded platforms and trains with travellers standing just inches away from each other. Mr Khan has been criticised for running a dramatically reduced Underground service, effectively forcing commuters to cram in together. It came as the number of UK coronavirus deaths reached 5,373, with 51,608 confirmed cases, as Prime Minister Boris Johnson remained in intensive care after being admitted overnight.
Denise Coates the owner of Bet 365 and Stoke City has donated 10 million to the NHS at Royal Stoke hospital She was castigated in the press for giving herself a 260 million yearly salary, she pays nearly half of that in taxes she also donates 50 million to the Denise Coates foundation Wonder if the press pick up on that, I know Piers Morgan mentioned it on his programme don't know if any others have tho It's a wonderful gesture, she deserves a dame hood *thunderous applause *
Mayor apologises for saying Boris Johnson 'deserves' coronavirus
The mayor of a town in Derbyshire has been forced to apologise for saying Boris Johnson “completely deserves this” after he was admitted to intensive care with coronavirus. Sheila Oakes, the mayor of Heanor, made the inflammatory comments in response to a Facebook post asking people to “say a little prayer" for the prime minister on Monday evening.
'Do your bit for the country and FIX this!': Furious key workers rage at Sadiq Khan as overcrowded Tubes farce rolls into THIRD week of coronavirus lockdown
Angry London commuters today called the situation 'ridiculous' and a 'mess' as they shared pictures of crowded platforms and trains with travellers standing just inches away from each other. Mr Khan has been criticised for running a dramatically reduced Underground service, effectively forcing commuters to cram in together. It came as the number of UK coronavirus deaths reached 5,373, with 51,608 confirmed cases, as Prime Minister Boris Johnson remained in intensive care after being admitted overnight.
I think the bigger question is how many commuters are actual 'key workers'. As I've stated on other threads,my niece contracted what was thought to be the virus(unable to confirm due to lack of a test).However after the 7 days she was being pressured into returning to work,even though she was still not completely recovered.Her job is managing an office building,which is by no means a 'key worker' job as most of the building is unoccupied apart from a couple of contractors on site,who refused to 'down tools'.Her company even printed out a 'key worker' pass to show London Transport Police if she was to get questioned about her travel.This is by no means a 'Del Boy' or 'Fly-By-Night' company,it's one of the big boys in the City Mile.When this is all over some companies should be held to account for their actions during this time,whilst some have stepped up to the mark,others have seriously let it's workers and public down .P.S. while she was at home she was able to do all her work!
'Do your bit for the country and FIX this!': Furious key workers rage at Sadiq Khan as overcrowded Tubes farce rolls into THIRD week of coronavirus lockdown
Angry London commuters today called the situation 'ridiculous' and a 'mess' as they shared pictures of crowded platforms and trains with travellers standing just inches away from each other. Mr Khan has been criticised for running a dramatically reduced Underground service, effectively forcing commuters to cram in together. It came as the number of UK coronavirus deaths reached 5,373, with 51,608 confirmed cases, as Prime Minister Boris Johnson remained in intensive care after being admitted overnight.
I think the bigger question is how many commuters are actual 'key workers'. As I've stated on other threads,my niece contracted what was thought to be the virus(unable to confirm due to lack of a test).However after the 7 days she was being pressured into returning to work,even though she was still not completely recovered.Her job is managing an office building,which is by no means a 'key worker' job as most of the building is unoccupied apart from a couple of contractors on site,who refused to 'down tools'.Her company even printed out a 'key worker' pass to show London Transport Police if she was to get questioned about her travel.This is by no means a 'Del Boy' or 'Fly-By-Night' company,it's one of the big boys in the City Mile.When this is all over some companies should be held to account for their actions during this time,whilst some have stepped up to the mark,others have seriously let it's workers and public down .P.S. while she was at home she was able to do all her work!
What has become very clear is that The Government hasn't got an exit strategy to end the lockdown. Every day there are examples of people ignoring social distancing rules, carriages on the tube that are jam packed etc. You would think that this was an ideal time for supermarkets to expand their delivery service, yet you cant get one. I looked the other day and I couldn't get a click and collect inside three weeks. There is a massive question over key workers. My daughter in law is a teacher. She turned up for her first days work after the lockdown started, and had 2 kids to look after. They were twins. Their father dropped them off and picked them up wearing shorts and a t shirt, and appeared to be either not working or working at home. The company my son in law works for sells software to GP surgeries. He was therefore classified as a key worker, even though he mostly works from home. They could therefore send their kids to school, but haven't. I have a friend who is a sales rep for a mobility company, he mainly sells stair lifts, and is classified as a key worker. A large percentage of his customers are elderly. He hasn't been out for a fortnight, as he has had the symptons and been quite ill. His wife now has the symptons, and he is looking after her. He cant be sure if they have contracted the virus because he cant get a test. He works for a national company, on a self employed basis. I wonder how many of his colleagues are out there infecting three or four vulnerable families every day. Many self employed people will be facing a choice of working or going skint. I am sure that the choice of who is a key worker and who isn't, is quite difficult, but they surely should have erred on the side of caution.
Fears of a power vacuum at the top of government - as Boris Johnson continues his stay in intensive care - feature prominently on Wednesday's newspaper front pages. The Daily Telegraph says the prime minister's de facto deputy Dominic Raab is facing a situation "without recent historical precedent" - and urgent questions about his authority to dictate any changes in the government's response to the coronavirus crisis. Cabinet sources tell the paper that Mr Johnson will still take major decisions as long as he remains able to express his wishes, but that in his absence, senior ministers have "differing views" on whether to extend the current lockdown next week. The HuffPost UK website says there are particular tensions between the Treasury and the Department of Health and Social Care on the way forward.
The Sun quotes another unnamed government figure who suggests Mr Raab is "heavily constrained" as the prime minister's stand-in and needs "collective responsibility on anything substantial", such as the approval of military action. The New Statesman website also points out that the foreign secretary cannot hire or dismiss other ministers - and will not hold a weekly audience with the Queen. For the Guardian, the UK is facing a "crisis of authority" at a time when public approval for extending social distancing measures will need to be won and maintained. "The weeks to come", it goes on in an editorial, "will require some of the most fraught political calls any peacetime government has had to make". Several papers carry Dominic Raab's comments that the prime minister is a "fighter" who will "pull through". Meanwhile, 16 NHS staff at the George Eliot Hospital in Warwickshire - dressed in plastic aprons and surgical masks - are pictured on the front of the Daily Express, holding a homemade "get well soon" sign for Mr Johnson. And the Sun pictures the prime minister on the steps of Downing Street last Thursday applauding health workers, telling readers: "he stayed at work for you, now pray at home for him". The Daily Mirror also wishes the PM a rapid recovery, but insists his stay in hospital must not be allowed to blunt accountability and scrutiny of the government. Elsewhere, according to the Times, British biotech companies could soon be asked to work together to produce a finger-**** antibody test that detects whether someone has had coronavirus, providing a possible route out of the lockdown. The paper suggests that ministers are turning away from the idea of sourcing such a test abroad, after other products ordered and evaluated by the government proved unreliable. The ultimate goal, the Times says, is to have a kit accurate enough to allow millions of people to test themselves at home, generating a result within a few minutes.
Furlough scheme could cost THREE TIMES what was planned after half of UK businesses furlough nearly ALL their staff running up £40billion in just three months
Millions of people are being furloughed during the coronavirus pandemic could cost the Treasury up to £40billion, a study has found. Nearly 20% of small companies are putting all employees on furlough.
Public Health England is hampering the development of 'game changer' coronavirus antibody tests by refusing to share blood samples from infected patients with private labs, leaked memo claims
Private labs say they are being hamstrung by Public Health England's failure to respond to multiple requests asking for blood samples from patients.
Who will decide when lockdown is lifted? Dominic Raab dodges question time and time again as he fails to answer whether he can take ultimate responsibility if cabinet is split while PM is convalescing
Dominic Raab took charge of Britain's battle against coronavirus on Tuesday as acting Prime Minister - but was warned just to 'hold on to the steering wheel'.
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Sadiq Khan has hit out at commuters who are refusing to stay at home despite Government rules after the deaths of five London bus workers who tested positive for Covid-19. The mayor of the capital said he was 'absolutely devastated' following the coronavirus deaths. He tweeted a statement saying that 'lives depend' on people following Government rules to stay at home unless travel is essential.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html
Mr Johnson (top right) alongside Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab have warned against 'damaging protectionism' in the face of the global health crisis, with Mr Raab insisting international 'teamwork' is the way forward. It comes as protective face masks destined for Berlin have been allegedly intercepted at a Thailand airport and diverted instead to the US (Trump pictured, bottom right). Angry German officials have blasted Donald Trump for the move, accusing Washington of 'modern day piracy'. The shipment of 200,000 FFP2 and FFP3 masks were made by the US company 3M which has a factory in China. German officials allege the protective equipment was intercepted at Bangkok Airport and instead flown to the US. It comes after French officials accused the US of offering cash on the tarmac at three times the going rate to take their shipment of face masks (Left, boxes are unloaded from an Antonov 124 aircraft transporting 10 million face masks ordered by France from China).
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html
A young NHS nurse who died after treating stricken coronavirus patients had fallen ill at work but was not allowed to go home because his ward was so short-staffed, his heartbroken mother claimed last night. John Alagos (pictured left), 23, the third nurse and the youngest British medic believed to have succumbed to the deadly Covid-19 virus, collapsed and died at home after an exhausting 12-hour shift. His mother, Gina Gustilo, 50, told The Mail on Sunday her son had not been wearing the right protective clothing at work. He returned home on Friday following a night shift, after complaining of suffering a headache and high temperature throughout the night. A tearful Mrs Gustilo said: 'I asked 'Why didn't you come home?' He said he had asked other staff but they said they were short of staff and they did not let him go. I said, 'OK, take some paracetamol.' After a few minutes, I found him turning blue in his bed.' Top right: NHS nurse Aimee O'Rourke and bottom right: Areema Nasreen who both died treating coronavirus patients.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html
He made three points very clearly.
How to end a lockdown is probably the most important question worldwide.
No country in the world currently has a strategy for ending a lockdown.
Ending the lockdown while case numbers are still high, would result in case numbers resurging faster than we had seen before.
He made it absolutely clear that he didn't have a clue on how to end the lockdown.
News of Boris Johnson's admission to hospital prompted a number of papers to update their front pages overnight, knocking the Queen's address to the nation out of the top headlines.
The Daily Telegraph says the statement from Downing Street was "unexpected", coming just hours after ministers insisted there'd been no change in his condition.
According to the paper, some members of the cabinet have privately "expressed concern" over whether Mr Johnson can still run the government, despite official assurances that he remains in charge.
One minister is said to have told a fellow MP that the Prime Minister is "having to sleep and rest a lot" because of his high temperature.
The Guardian reports that the update came after "days of rumours" about the prime minister's health.
The paper claims it was told last week that Mr Johnson was "more seriously ill than either he or his senior officials were prepared to admit".
A number of papers carry a photograph of staff at the Princess Alexandra hospital in Essex paying tribute to 54-year-old Lynsay Coventry - the first NHS midwife confirmed to have died from coronavirus in England.
Lining the sides of a hospital corridor, still wearing their surgical masks, staff fell silent to remember a dedicated colleague, who'd helped hundreds of women bring their babies into the world, the Daily Mail says.
The Guardian reports on a warning from scientists that antibody testing kits, hailed by Boris Johnson as a "game changer" in the fight against coronavirus, could in fact be "unreliable".
It was hoped the kits, resembling pregnancy tests, would allow people who have had the virus to return to the workplace - but the paper says experts now think they may fail to detect up to half of coronavirus cases. One of the scientists involved has told the paper that the sensitivity of all the tests on the market was "relatively low" for people with mild symptoms - the exact group the tests were intended for.
The Daily Mirror and the Sun pick out the same message for their headlines: "We will meet again".
For the Daily Mail, the historic address evoked memories of Vera Lynn and "Britain's Blitz spirit".
The Guardian's sketch writer John Crace says the monarch's address delivered the "clear moral leadership" that many political leaders have failed to provide in the current crisis.
There's only a certain amount a head of state can say in times like these, he writes, but any reference to the government's efforts to tackle the outbreak were notably absent.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-52177104
The main story across all of the papers is Boris Johnson's move to intensive care late on Monday evening.
In the words of the Daily Mail, the drastic step was taken because the stricken prime minister was struggling to breathe.
According to the Daily Mirror, there are concerns that he could have pneumonia.
The Times says the deterioration in Mr Johnson's condition was rapid. It quotes sources at St Thomas's Hospital near Westminster who say he needed four litres of oxygen - below the normal threshold in intensive care of 15 litres.
The prime minister, it adds, has not been intubated, where a tube is inserted into the windpipe before ventilation.
'Uncompromising' karate black belt
HuffPost UK offers a guide to Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, who is deputising for the PM "where necessary". Describing the 46-year-old karate black belt as an uncompromising figure who has rarely strayed from his dedication to leaving the EU.
The son of a Czech-born Jewish refugee who fled the ****, Mr Raab has spent much of the past month trying to get Britons repatriated from far-flung corners of the globe.
Elsewhere, the Financial Times says big decisions loom for the government, as the outbreak reaches its peak and ministers start to grapple with how and when to start relaxing the lockdown. The paper's leader column argues that governments which have rightly decided to close down their economies have only "a very few months" before the costs and social unrest become "unbearable".
Make these lockdowns work, it says, "all the blundering of recent months has to end".
According to the Daily Telegraph, ministers are scrambling to formulate a new exit strategy for the lockdown, following warnings from experts that mass testing cannot be introduced for at least a month.
More than three million antibody tests - which show if someone has already had Covid-19 - were ordered two weeks ago and hailed as "game-changing" by the prime minister. But the government's scientific adviser says they have so far failed.
Matt's cartoon has a park bench with a plaque dedicated to "Mark and Anne who were fined for sitting here during lockdown, April 2020".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-52193331
Boris Johnson was moved to ICU at St Thomas' Hospital in central London (pictured top and bottom right today) and given oxygen after his health deteriorated sharply over just two hours, leaving doctors fearing he will need a ventilator. The 55-year-old was transferred to intensive care at 7pm because of breathing difficulties - forcing him to 'deputise' Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab to take the reins of government. In a round of broadcast interviews this morning, Cabinet minister Michael Gove said Mr Johnson was getting the 'best care'. 'As we speak the PM is in intensive care being looked after by his medical team receiving the very, very best care from the team in St Thomas' and our hopes and prayers are with him and with his family,' he told BBC Breakfast. Mr Gove played down concerns that the government will be paralysed with the leader out of action. 'The Cabinet is the supreme decision making body,' he said. The Queen is being kept informed about Mr Johnson's condition, while Mr Raab will chair a meeting of the government coronavirus task force this morning. The PM's sharp downturn came 11 days after he first suffered coronavirus symptoms and went into isolation. He looked increasingly unwell when glimpsed in public and in 'selfie' videos posted on on social media, and ministers were then shocked by his grim appearance at a Zoom conference on Sunday.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html
Professor Chris Whitty said that discussions about moving on to the next stage of the response to the pandemic would be premature until the nation has passed the peak number of deaths (pictured: hospital admissions in the UK, left; Whitty, right; and the latest figures, inset). He downplayed reports that this figure could be reached this weekend as he returned to fronting the daily news conference, following a week in self isolation. Flanking Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab he also warned people not to expect too much, too soon, from antibody tests that could give those who have had coronavirus and built up immunity, a way to return to normal life.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html
Angry London commuters today called the situation 'ridiculous' and a 'mess' as they shared pictures of crowded platforms and trains with travellers standing just inches away from each other. Mr Khan has been criticised for running a dramatically reduced Underground service, effectively forcing commuters to cram in together. It came as the number of UK coronavirus deaths reached 5,373, with 51,608 confirmed cases, as Prime Minister Boris Johnson remained in intensive care after being admitted overnight.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html
She was castigated in the press for giving herself a 260 million yearly salary, she pays nearly half of that in taxes she also donates 50 million to the Denise Coates foundation
Wonder if the press pick up on that, I know Piers Morgan mentioned it on his programme don't know if any others have tho
It's a wonderful gesture, she deserves a dame hood
*thunderous applause *
The mayor of a town in Derbyshire has been forced to apologise for saying Boris Johnson “completely deserves this” after he was admitted to intensive care with coronavirus.
Sheila Oakes, the mayor of Heanor, made the inflammatory comments in response to a Facebook post asking people to “say a little prayer" for the prime minister on Monday evening.
https://uk.yahoo.com/news/coronavirus-mayor-apologises-boris-johnson-intensive-care-125457714.html
Every day there are examples of people ignoring social distancing rules, carriages on the tube that are jam packed etc.
You would think that this was an ideal time for supermarkets to expand their delivery service, yet you cant get one.
I looked the other day and I couldn't get a click and collect inside three weeks.
There is a massive question over key workers.
My daughter in law is a teacher.
She turned up for her first days work after the lockdown started, and had 2 kids to look after.
They were twins.
Their father dropped them off and picked them up wearing shorts and a t shirt, and appeared to be either not working or working at home.
The company my son in law works for sells software to GP surgeries.
He was therefore classified as a key worker, even though he mostly works from home.
They could therefore send their kids to school, but haven't.
I have a friend who is a sales rep for a mobility company, he mainly sells stair lifts, and is classified as a key worker.
A large percentage of his customers are elderly.
He hasn't been out for a fortnight, as he has had the symptons and been quite ill.
His wife now has the symptons, and he is looking after her.
He cant be sure if they have contracted the virus because he cant get a test.
He works for a national company, on a self employed basis.
I wonder how many of his colleagues are out there infecting three or four vulnerable families every day.
Many self employed people will be facing a choice of working or going skint.
I am sure that the choice of who is a key worker and who isn't, is quite difficult, but they surely should have erred on the side of caution.
Fears of a power vacuum at the top of government - as Boris Johnson continues his stay in intensive care - feature prominently on Wednesday's newspaper front pages.
The Daily Telegraph says the prime minister's de facto deputy Dominic Raab is facing a situation "without recent historical precedent" - and urgent questions about his authority to dictate any changes in the government's response to the coronavirus crisis.
Cabinet sources tell the paper that Mr Johnson will still take major decisions as long as he remains able to express his wishes, but that in his absence, senior ministers have "differing views" on whether to extend the current lockdown next week.
The HuffPost UK website says there are particular tensions between the Treasury and the Department of Health and Social Care on the way forward.
The Sun quotes another unnamed government figure who suggests Mr Raab is "heavily constrained" as the prime minister's stand-in and needs "collective responsibility on anything substantial", such as the approval of military action.
The New Statesman website also points out that the foreign secretary cannot hire or dismiss other ministers - and will not hold a weekly audience with the Queen.
For the Guardian, the UK is facing a "crisis of authority" at a time when public approval for extending social distancing measures will need to be won and maintained.
"The weeks to come", it goes on in an editorial, "will require some of the most fraught political calls any peacetime government has had to make".
Several papers carry Dominic Raab's comments that the prime minister is a "fighter" who will "pull through".
Meanwhile, 16 NHS staff at the George Eliot Hospital in Warwickshire - dressed in plastic aprons and surgical masks - are pictured on the front of the Daily Express, holding a homemade "get well soon" sign for Mr Johnson.
And the Sun pictures the prime minister on the steps of Downing Street last Thursday applauding health workers, telling readers: "he stayed at work for you, now pray at home for him".
The Daily Mirror also wishes the PM a rapid recovery, but insists his stay in hospital must not be allowed to blunt accountability and scrutiny of the government.
Elsewhere, according to the Times, British biotech companies could soon be asked to work together to produce a finger-**** antibody test that detects whether someone has had coronavirus, providing a possible route out of the lockdown.
The paper suggests that ministers are turning away from the idea of sourcing such a test abroad, after other products ordered and evaluated by the government proved unreliable.
The ultimate goal, the Times says, is to have a kit accurate enough to allow millions of people to test themselves at home, generating a result within a few minutes.
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Millions of people are being furloughed during the coronavirus pandemic could cost the Treasury up to £40billion, a study has found. Nearly 20% of small companies are putting all employees on furlough.
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Private labs say they are being hamstrung by Public Health England's failure to respond to multiple requests asking for blood samples from patients.
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Dominic Raab took charge of Britain's battle against coronavirus on Tuesday as acting Prime Minister - but was warned just to 'hold on to the steering wheel'.
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