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Health secretary Matt Hancock announced on Friday that all hospital staff must wear surgical face masks from June 15, with outpatients and visitors to wear face coverings.
NHS England has launched its test and trace system, hoping for it to be the lynchpin of the next phase of being able to lift lockdown restrictions. The new system will ask those displaying symptoms of coronavirus to isolate with their families and to contact NHS tracers to find out who else may have been exposed as Britain grapples with having one of the worst death ratios in the world.
“I will stop with our support after tonight,” she tells HuffPost UK.
Medics say aide's Durham trip "completely undermines" all the work they have done to fight coronavirus and call for his resignation.
A farm shop owner in east Hampshire has been delivering food parcels to key workers. He was inspired by an NHS nurse’s emotional plea for people to stop panic buying and leaving shop shelves empty. William Benson, who owns Applegarth Farm in Grayshot, has since helped to raise £3,000 for front-line NHS staff and care-home workers and delivered dozens of food packages since lockdown began in March.
Amid the chaos, patients and doctors are adapting – but I’m anxious what will happen when lockdown is lifted.
Starmer paved the way, but it was Tory rebels who caught the PM’s ear.
Robert Buckland says it was "absolutely essential" to put hospitals first as pressure grows on ministers over deaths in care homes.
Second World War veteran raised almost £33 million for the NHS by walking laps of his Bedfordshire garden.
The government's "perverse" decision to set up new laboratories is contributing to testing problems, it is claimed.