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Intensive care nurse warns in poem of ‘apocalyptic situation’
Tori Willis recorded the spoken word poem out of ‘frustration’ over people not obeying lockdown rules.
Anti-lockdown protests on the rise in the US
The growing wave of dissent comes despite America’s spiralling death toll from Covid-19.
Official NHS staff death toll rises to 27 – including pregnant nurse
Announcements from NHS trusts and tributes from loved ones indicate the true number of staff lost is higher.
Coronavirus UK – Lockdown extended for at least three more weeks
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, deputising for Prime Minister Boris Johnson, said lockdown measures must continue.
Ex-detainees write to Priti Patel pleading Covid-19 makes immigration detention inhuman
Freed Voices is made up of people who have experienced immigration detention in the UK, and are now committed to speaking out. Between us, we have lost over 20 years of our lives to detention, and we have written this urgent letter to the Home Secretary.
Social care sector ‘remains at unnecessary risk despite Government plan’
There remains a ‘critical lack’ of testing and protective gear, unions and social care bosses say.
Positive signs in Europe over coronavirus ‘tempered by UK’, WHO says
Dr Hans Kluge described how ‘the storm cloud’ of Covid-19 ‘still hangs heavily over the European region’.
Coronavirus UK – UK’s Covid-19 HOSPITAL death toll approaches 14,000
ONS revealed coronavirus death rate was twice as high for men than for women in England and Wales in March.
Longest creature to have ever lived has been discovered
Underwater explorers found the 150 foot (46 metre) long “UFO-like” creature, known as a siphonophore, in the deep sea canyons near Ningaloo.