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How prepared was the UK for the coronavirus outbreak?
In 2011, the then government set out its approach to a coronavirus-like pandemic in a UK Influenza Pandemic Preparedness Strategy.
Trump tweets he has ordered US Navy to destroy Iranian gunboats
The US president’s tweet came after Iran’s Revolutionary Guard announced the launch of Iran’s first military satellite.
Coronavirus deaths in care homes not inevitable, says Sturgeon
The First Minister pledged support for older people as she spoke at the Scottish Government’s daily briefing.
Lockdown reveals fresh air and cleaner rivers in India
India’s lockdown to curb the coronavirus outbreak has led to an unexpected bonus
Nightingale hospital forced to turn down patient requests due to staffing shortages
According to documents the hospital has rejected more patients than it has treated.
Captain Tom Moore opens Yorkshire’s new Nightingale hospital
Captain Tom received a standing ovation.
Stephen Hawking’s ventilator donated to NHS to help coronavirus patients
The physicist’s daughter, Lucy, donated the medical equipment to the Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge.
New estimates suggest UK has second-highest coronavirus death toll in the world
According to Financial Times analysis the pandemic could have already caused as many as 41,000 deaths – twice the official estimate.
Human trials of a potential Covid-19 vaccine to start on Thursday
Health Secretary Matt Hancock praised the ‘rapid progress’ being made into vaccines by scientists at Oxford and Imperial College London.