We speak with Carlie, an ITU nurse, and Bash, a porter. Both work at Warwick Hospital. Share on FacebookShare Share on TwitterTweet Share on WhatsAppSend Share on WhatsAppSend Share on WhatsAppEmail
The guidance from government is that every pupil should be tested three times in the first two weeks, when schools return in England next Monday. It’s supposed to reassure parents, staff and pupils that schools are safe. But while teachers wrestle with the huge logistical challenges, there are signs that many parents are withholding consent.…
Pontin’s has agreed to change its working practices after a whistleblower revealed it used a list of Irish surnames to stop people from the Traveller community booking holidays. The Equality and Human Rights Commission found that the company used the list of names as part of a policy of refusing to allow people described as…
In an intensive care unit at Warwick Hospital, where the number of patients has dropped dramatically in the past fortnight, those that are here are still very sick. Cyril Anness is one of them. He told us that he’d had his call for the vaccine two days after he fell ill with Covid, which was…
In BriefThe key figures in the spending plan outlined by the chancellor todayRishi Sunak today pledged to continue supporting workers and businesses through the Covid-19 crisis – but warned that repairing the long-term damage to the economy “will take time”. Delivering only his second budget as chancellor, after last autumn’s was cancelled owing to the pandemic, Sunak announced…
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Getting to grips with . . .Return to school fuels questions about whether under-18s will get coronavirus jabsAs children across England prepare to head back to classrooms next week, anxious parents are asking when youngsters will be inoculated against Covid-19 – if at all.A trial was launched last month to determine the efficacy of the Oxford-AstraZeneca…
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The latest on . . .Hopes of avoiding fourth UK lockdown grow as PHE boss welcomes ‘very good signs’ that jabs may halt outbreaksEarly data on the UK’s Covid vaccine rollout suggests that people who have been immunised “are not getting infected at all”, according to Public Health England’s head of immunisation.Dr Mary Ramsay told Radio 4’s Today programme…
In apparent defiance of the Vatican, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans urged its parishioners on Monday to avoid Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine, calling it “morally compromised” due to links to cells derived from aborted fetal tissue.The strongly worded statement came just two days after the Food and Drug Administration granted an emergency…
