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Greater testing capacity earlier would have reduced deaths, minister admits
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps cautioned that life would not return to normal when the Prime Minister sets out an exit strategy this week.
Lifting lockdown on basis of age tells elderly ‘their lives don’t count’
Baroness Ros Altmann and Sir Michael Palin said age-based lockdown restrictions would discriminate rather than protect.
YouTube have deleted conspiracy theorist David Icke’s account
The video-sharing site said the 68-year-old violated its policies on sharing information about coronavirus.
Journalism now ‘a crime’ in Egypt – Amnesty report
Marking World Press Freedom day on Sunday, the human rights group has condemned the Egyptian government’s increasing clampdowns on the media.
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.