Tag: coronavirus lockdowns

Breaktime at school, and 13-year-old Harry was crouching in the only place he felt safe — a bush in the corner of the playground.Since returning to school after lockdown, he had been relentlessly bullied by a gang of children. 'I told loads of teachers multiple times. They never even talked ...

The UK is about to be hit by a large wave of Covid hospitalisations and the peak could be even higher than last winter despite the reduced severity of Omicron, SAGE have warned.In minutes from a meeting on December 23 published last night, the Government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies warned ...

Can there be a better feeling than watching England beat Germany 2-0 at Wembley, after a pandemic that has lasted for a year and a half? On Tuesday evening, as the referee blew the final whistle and confirmed England’s first knockout victory over the Germans in my lifetime, I couldn’t ...

Boris Johnson has today pledged to increase the speed of Britain's vaccine rollout to a million jabs a day in an attempt to beat the increasing prevalence of the Indian variant of the virus amid fears it could derail the country's exit from lockdown. Growing questions are also being asked ...

SAGE says it's a 'realistic possibility' Indian variant could lead to 1,000 Covid deaths by summer  There is a 'realistic possibility' the Indian Covid variant is far more transmissible than the Kent strain and could lead to up to a thousand deaths a day by summer, the Government's scientists ...

A mother and daughter both died within a month of each other after 11 members of the same family all tested positive for Covid-19 after gathering on Christmas Day.  Their heartbroken family said Kashmir Bains, 64, and her 43-year-old daughter Paramjeet, of Wolverhampton, fell ill after testing positive for the ...

Amir Khan has breached Covid laws again after making a 230-mile round trip from his Bolton home to visit an upmarket restaurant in Coventry.In a further breach of lockdown rules, Khan was also photographed breaking the two-metre distance rule after a photograph of him posing with his arms around ...

With his medals, his friendly grin and that flash of steel in his blue eyes, Captain Sir Tom Moore summed up everything that was good about Britain under lockdown.He was kind. He was indomitable. He was the image of ourselves that we hoped to see projected back from the mirror, ...

The states of Kerala, Goa, Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh have been most successful in integrating migrant workers, while crucial migrant receiving states, including Delhi, have done poorly, shows the Interstate Migrant Policy Index (IMPEX) that seeks to measure integration of interstate migrants. India’s average IMPEX ...

Tomorrow, were it not for the lockdown, I would be fastening a poppy to my lapel and heading to church under the wintry sky for one of the most solemn ceremonies in this country's calendar.Like millions of Britons on Remembrance Sunday, I'd pay homage and give thanks to those ...