Why the government’s new quarantine payments are almost completely useless
Could you self-isolate on £13 a day? Boris Johnson seems to think so.
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Putin and Trump are fast-tracking vaccine trials – with potentially perilous consequences
Inflicting a defective vaccine on millions would damage the immunisation campaign, and gift ammunition to anti-vaxxers.
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Care worker left without sick pay during quarantine under government self-isolation rules
A “gap in the system” leaves those who cannot work from home with no income for two weeks when quarantining…
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Why the government is wrong to make a scapegoat of Public Health England
Boris Johnson needs someone to blame for his Covid-19 failures, but scrapping the seven-year-old organisation is not a solution.
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Matt Hancock’s plan to scrap Public Health England leaves questions unanswered
The Health Secretary’s speech gave us no clear picture of the future of the new body.
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Why the coronavirus mental health crisis may not have peaked
Nearly one in five people in the UK experienced some form of depression in June, up by 10 per cent…
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Are local lockdowns working? The data suggests they’re not tough enough
Analysis of the latest figures on Covid-19 cases shows most areas with local restrictions are still experiencing rises.
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Why we fear the reopening of schools will create a second wave of Covid-19 infections
My hunch is that coronavirus will prove to be just like other respiratory viruses – eminently transmissible by the young.
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