The BBC tonight promised hours of daily educational programmes amid mounting fears poor pupils are being locked out of online learning during the new coronavirus shutdown. The corporation revealed its CBBC channel will feature three hours of primary school shows a day from next Monday, while BBC2 will have two hours daily for secondary school students. […]

Boris Johnson: Over 70s to be offered vaccine by February 15th Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged the country to follow the stringent new measures on Monday as he announced hospital admissions are at their highest since the peak of Covid in April. The new lockdown came into force as the Prime Minister was speaking on […]

Britain’s plan to lengthen the gap between coronavirus jabs so more people can get their first dose could lead to another mutant strain emerging. Downing Street has defended its plan to delay the second jab by 12 weeks, despite England’s chief medical officer Chris Whitty admitting it could allow an ‘escaped mutant’ to develop. At […]

Programs in many countries have been hampered by slow-moving bureaucracies, a lack of nurses and shortages of vital equipment. By Marc Santora With a more contagious variant of the coronavirus forcing England to impose a strict new national lockdown and European nations extending restrictions in the face of rising cases, political leaders have promised that […]

LONDON (REUTERS) – Five British medical scientists have criticised a British government plan to delay giving second doses of Covid-19 vaccines by up to 12 weeks, saying proven dosing schedules should not be altered “without solid scientific support or evidence”. In an opinion piece published online in the BMJ British Medical Journal, the scientists said […]

Coronavirus: UK records over 60,000 cases Speaking today, Health Secretary, Matt Hancock admitted his concern of the new strain of the virus as it is much harder to detect than the one which was discovered in the South East of England. The South African strain, named 501.V2, does not respond to current testing like the […]

Brexit: Johnson discusses ban on ‘hoover’ EU fishing trawlers The Government is understood to be considering a ban on the massive vessels which are typically more than 330ft long and have mile-long nets which catch hundreds of tonnes of fish a day. Boris Johnson has already stated he wants to stop the supertrawlers plundering the […]

Coronavirus: UK records over 60,000 cases Yesterday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced England will be going into its third national lockdown as cases of the novel virus reach record-breaking figures. All schools will remain closed until at least February. Addressing the nation last night, Mr Johnson said: “In England, we must therefore go into a […]

1.3 million people have now had been given coronavirus vaccine jabs, Boris Johnson has confirmed. The UK began vaccinating peole in December 2020, first with the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine and then with the Oxford/AstraZeneca jab, which was approved later. The Prime Minister said that of the 1.3 million people in the UK – 1.1 million had […]

The UK has recorded more than 60,000 coronavirus cases in a single day for the first time. Government figures show another 60,916 people were reported as being infected in the latest 24 hour period. A further 830 deaths have also been announced, bringing the overall death toll to 76,305. It’s another record daily number of […]