Separate households will not be allowed to meet indoors in Greater Manchester, East Lancashire and parts of West Yorkshire from midnight, the government has announced. Health Secretary Matt Hancock said an “increasing rate of transmission” had been identified in those areas. “The spread is largely due to households meeting and not abiding to social distancing,”… Read More »
England is counting anyone who has died there and had a coronavirus test come back positive at any point as a coronavirus death, Public Health England announced Friday. This comes after the British government ordered a review of how daily coronavirus death figures in England are tallied after some claimed that the figures were inflated.… Read More »
By Clare Wilson Face coverings will be compulsory in shops in England starting on 24 JulyHollie Adams/Getty Images Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, face coverings and masks have become ubiquitous in some Asian countries, but the UK public has generally been more reluctant to adopt them. Now the law is about to change.… Read More »
By Conrad Quilty-Harper and Layal Liverpool Victoria Jones/PA Wire/PA Images Latest coronavirus news as of 5 pm on 5 June Estimated covid-19 infections have fallen in England The estimated number of people who have had covid-19 in England has fallen in May, according to provisional results from a random swab testing survey by the Office… Read More »
Three more people from England have tested positive for coronavirus, taking the total number of UK cases to 23. Two of the patients had recently returned from Italy, while the other had come back from Asia, chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty said. The cases are from Gloucestershire, Hertfordshire and Berkshire. It comes as health… Read More »