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The UK has recorded its highest daily death toll and highest number of new infections as it battles a new mutant variant of COVID-19. So how did it get to this point and will lockdowns be able to get it out?
As the death toll soars, will a lockdown be enough to stop the UK's mutant COVID-19 strain? Posted SatSaturday 9 updated FriFriday 12 MarMarch 2021 at 1:29am Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Watch 1 Share Print text only Cancel On an evening shift in a busy London hospital last week, intensive care nurse Dave Carr came across a senior doctor standing next to a vending machine. She was crying, he recalled, and when he asked what was wrong, she simply said she could not decide if she wanted a cup of tea or coffee.
Advertisement The scientist leading the UK coronavirus vaccination programme has defended the decision to extend the gap between the two doses, insisting it is 'the way we save lives'. Professor Jonathan Van-Tam says waiting 12 weeks between jabs rather than the original three will protect those most at risk of dying from Covid-19, adding that the focus must be 'to deliver first vaccine doses to as many people, in the shortest possible timeframe'. As the first supplies of the Oxford vaccine arrived in the UK yesterday, the Deputy Chief Medical Officer – who has become the trusted face of ...
Last modified on Mon 4 Jan 2021 10.03 EST Nine months ago, Boris Johnson praised staff at St Thomas’ for saving his life. Now, a senior intensive care nurse at the London hospital has warned that patient care is being compromised because of staff shortages and the government’s failure to plan appropriately for the second Covid wave. Dave Carr, an intensive care charge nurse, is one of many NHS workers desperate for the public to know what is going on inside their hospitals at a time when misinformation and scepticism about the virus are rife. “The public needs to be aware of what’s h...
Last modified on Sat 2 Jan 2021 11.16 EST Government hopes for a new year easing of the Covid pandemic are unravelling, with ministers forced into a U-turn on reopening primary schools and hospitals across the country struggling with rising numbers of severely ill patients. As the crisis escalates, the Nightingale hospital built in London’s ExCeL centre is expected to take Covid patients next week, for the first time since the spring. Hospitals in east London are under extraordinary pressure, while Essex and Buckinghamshire have both declared a major incident, which enables local leaders to...