Tag: Coronavirus Lockdowns

One in six GPs fail to give patients face-to-face appointments with many medics saying they are ‘unable to meet demand’

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One in six GPs have failed to provide patients with face-to-face appointments as many medics claim they are unable to meet demand, a new poll has found.

Doctors implemented a virtual appointment protocol during the first covid lockdown, meaning that less than half of patients were examined in-person. Before the pandemic, about 80 per cent of appointments were face-to-face.

NHS England reversed its ‘total triage’ policy, which encouraged doctors to deal with more cases remotely, in 2021 after all patients

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Actor Tom Hollander to have first baby at 55 – after he and ex-fiancee rekindled their romance in lockdown

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Actor Tom Hollander to have first baby at 55 – after he and ex-fiancee rekindled their romance in lockdown

By Isabelle Stanley and Alison Boshoff

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Actor Tom Hollander is to become a dad for the first time at the age of 55, after rekindling his romance with interior designer Fran Hickman.

The Mail on Sunday can reveal that the star of The Night Manager

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Matt Le Tissier claims his family thought he had ‘mental health issues’ because of his views on the Covid pandemic… but they now realise he ‘wasn’t mad and was talking a lot of sense’

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Matthew Le Tisser has claimed that his family and close friends thought he had ‘mental health issues’ over his controversial views during the coronavirus pandemic.

The Southampton legend was an outspoken figure throughout the pandemic, regularly making headlines with his viewpoints on social media and in interviews. 

Among his claims were that PCR tests ‘were the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on mankind’, dying Covid patients in Italy ‘were actors’ and that the government’s interference in people’s lives during lockdown was

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How Sigi the cat on a bike turned me into an Insta hit with women: She’s deaf – and endearingly daft – but her cycle rides with her owner have made her a global star (who even upstaged Meghan!)

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The word I hear most when I’m cycling in London is ‘wow!’ – as in: ‘Wow! Your cat is so cute. Wow! Can I stroke her? Wow! I’ve never seen a bicycling cat before.’

Harnessed into her basket on my bike, Sigrid – my six-year-old Norwegian Forest cat – adores the attention. But she never hears the cries of ‘wow’. Like many blue-eyed white cats, she is completely deaf. She doesn’t let that stop her from treating life as a

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Dan Andrews is accused of hypocrisy as photo resurfaces amid ban on new homes from having a gas connection

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Victoria’s premier Dan Andrews has been accused of hypocrisy just days after he announced a total ban on natural gas in new homes.

MP for Mornington Chris Crewther shared a photo of Mr Andrews cooking a vegetarian patty on his gas stove during a Covid lockdown in April, 2020.

The photo appears to be taken inside Andrew’s home.

‘I agree with what Dan does: cooking with gas. It’s much better!’ the Liberal MP said.

‘But I don’t agree with what

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Hugely influential paper that killed Covid lab leak theory months into pandemic should be retracted because it is ‘misleading’, coalition of experts demand

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Dozens of scientists have today demanded the retraction of an influential paper credited with dismissing the idea that Covid emerged from a lab.

Authors of ‘Proximal Origin’, published days before Britain was thrust into its first lockdown, wrote: ‘We do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible.’

But a coalition of experts have now demanded it is removed, calling it ‘misleading’ and ‘damaging’.

The plea comes after secret messages between the authors — which casted doubt on

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Chris Whitty ‘warned against enforcing hated sex ban during Covid pandemic’

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Sir Chris Whitty advised ministers not to enforce the sex ban during the pandemic, leaked WhatsApp messages revealed today.

Under the original Covid lockdown imposed on March 23 2020, Boris Johnson told Brits to stay at home and avoid contact with people living in other households. 

The rules, in reality, amounted to a sex ban for all couples living separately because they were not allowed to meet up indoors. 

Sir Chris, England’s chief medical officer, was asked to clarify the

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Boris Johnson feared he ‘blinked too soon’ in plunging UK into 2nd Covid lockdown

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Boris Johnson feared that he ‘blinked too soon’ in plunging the UK into a second Covid lockdown after being warned that gloomy modelling which bounced him into the move was ‘very wrong’. 

The former Prime Minister confirmed on October 31 2020 that the nation would be put into a shutdown to avoid a ‘medical and moral disaster’ for the health service.

The decision was, in part, based on data from Cambridge University in conjunction with Public Health England, which suggested

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Health chiefs are modelling worst-case bird flu scenarios in case killer virus jumps to humans

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A dozen people in Cambodia are suspected of being infected with the H5N1 bird flu strain in the same province where an 11-year-old girl died on Wednesday – raising fears the virus may be spreading from human to human for the first time in decades. 

Scientists are modelling how a worst-case scenario bird flu outbreak could sweep the UK if the virus spread to humans.

The Khmer Times – a local newspaper – reported that the suspected patients have all

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Chemist shelves heave with remedies that are claimed to help provide much-needed shut-eye

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Do you struggle to sleep? If so, you’re far from alone. According to the latest NHS data, a record one million Britons are now prescribed insomnia medication each year.

And this is despite studies that have linked some types of the pills to increased dementia rates, addiction and withdrawal symptoms, as well as a host of other side effects when taken long-term.

Stress, the lasting reverberations of the chaos that lockdown caused and the rise of other conditions that make

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