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Downing Street admits PPE may need to be reused
Frontline staff are still struggling to access equipment, with some buying their own or using bin bags.
Jacinda Ardern takes pay cut in solidarity with those hit by Coronavirus
"It is about showing solidarity in New Zealand’s time of need.”
Another 761 die in hospital as UK’s coronavirus death toll nears 13,000
Government advisers have cautioned against pinning too much hope to the death numbers provided each day.
Emergency flights to bring in EU workers for British farms
Fruit and vegetable pickers will be flown in using specialist charter jets to keep up with demand during the coronavirus lockdown.
Trump’s decision to halt WHO funding condemned by scientists
Downing Street said the World Health Organisation had an ‘important role to play’ in tackling the coronavirus pandemic.
2,667 council staff paid over £100,000 in 2018-19, report shows
The highest paid local employee pocketed £615,550.
These are the celebrities propagating 5G conspiracy theories
A mast providing mobile connectivity to the Nightingale hospital in Birmingham was the latest to be attacked following a raft of bogus conspiracy theories.
Doctors washing and reusing protective equipment as stocks run out
The Government has said millions of pieces of personal protective equipment (PPE) have been delivered to the front line.
Phone mast serving Nightingale hospital among latest attacks
Some 20 phone masts were attacked over the weekend, according to the Mobile UK trade body.