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Stephen Hawking’s ventilator donated to NHS to help coronavirus patients
The physicist’s daughter, Lucy, donated the medical equipment to the Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge.
New estimates suggest UK has second-highest coronavirus death toll in the world
According to Financial Times analysis the pandemic could have already caused as many as 41,000 deaths – twice the official estimate.
Human trials of a potential Covid-19 vaccine to start on Thursday
Health Secretary Matt Hancock praised the ‘rapid progress’ being made into vaccines by scientists at Oxford and Imperial College London.
Government should be ‘tried for conspiracy to murder’ for spurning EU medical equipment offers says Philip Pullman
"If it turns out to be true that the government for Brexit-related reasons refused to take part in the procurement advantage offered by EU governments, thus making it harder for the NHS to deal with the Covid-19 and placing thousands of people at risk, the entire front bench ought to resign."
Coronavirus UK – Hospital death toll reaches 17,337
This grim news comes as a report suggests real number is 40% higher .
Woman, 39, jailed for coughing at police
Northumbria Police released footage of the ‘appalling’ incident, in which Charlene Merrifield coughed at an officer in the back of a police van.
UK govt announced shipment of PPE from Turkey before it had even made the request
The shipment was promised to arrive on Sunday, but sources say the request hadn’t even been made when the announcement went out.
More than a thousand coronavirus-related care home deaths registered
There were 1,662 deaths involving Covid-19 in England and Wales registered up to April 10 that occurred outside hospitals.
UK’s first Sikh A&E consultant dies after contracting Covid-19
Manjeet Riyat was known as the ‘father of the emergency department' at the Royal Derby Hospital.