Coronavirus is an infectious disease that has been confirmed in more than two and a half million people across the world. The World Health Organization (WHO) has revealed the COVID-19 symptoms that everyone should know about.Cases are continuing to rise in the UK, and the government has urged the public to stay at home, to…
Published on Apr 22, 2020Any return to normality in the short term is a “wholly unrealistic expectation”. That’s the warning from the UK government’s chief medical adviser. Professor Chris Whitty said the policy of social distancing will be needed until at least the end of the year. He said the chance of a vaccine or…
Published on Apr 17, 2020Doctors are warning that people are dying of heart attacks and strokes because they are so frightened about catching coronavirus that they are avoiding going to hospital when they should. There's also concern about the rising numbers of victims of domestic violence and people who have attempted suicide.Meanwhile the government has…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…