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Testing & tracing ‘so important’ in easing lockdown
Shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds called for an increase in testing.
Army generals say NHS workers should receive bonuses
General Lord Dannatt and General Lord Richards support the Mirror’s campaign to grant frontline workers a tax-free allowance amid the pandemic.
‘Out of pot,into fire’ – Wuhan evacuee wishes he had never left
Matt Raw says he went ‘out of the pot, into the fire’ when he was released from quarantine at Arrowe Park Hospital in Wirral.
JK Rowling donates £1m to help homeless and domestic abuse victims
The Harry Potter author said she is thinking of those people out ‘doing their jobs to protect us and our way of life’.
Twitter reacts to government’s announcement that it has ‘hit’ its testing target
The ramping up of testing amounted to little more than just a "massive one-day mission on the part of Amazon and the Royal Mail" according to one source.
Commuter temperature checks under consideration in lockdown easing plans
It comes after Health Secretary Matt Hancock said his target for 100,000 Covid-19 tests per day had been met.
Isolation – Film & TV drama might be best coping mechanisms
So as we face this new reality of Covid-19, watching those dramas about pandemics, the apocalypse, the end of the world, is not just about judging whether the dramatists got it right or not, but more about allowing us to feel the fear, and use it to help us understand how to get through it.
For many Nigerians, lockdown is not an option
Some locals say they would rather "die from this virus than from poverty".
David Icke page removed from Facebook over coronavirus theories
The move comes as social networks face pressure to ban the former footballer following a number of unproven claims about the disease.