RED ALERT Coronavirus: Two Labour MPs ‘self-isolate’ after attending ‘infected’ London conference with 250 others

Covid: UK coronavirus alert level moving to 4
Covid: UK coronavirus alert level moving to 4


Covid-19: UK could face 50,000 cases a day by October without action - Vallance
"Speed" and "action" are required to halt the rise in cases, the UK's chief scientific adviser warns.
BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54234084

BREAKING: PM outlines new COVID-19 restrictions for England
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Sky News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OZAXHMB1ig


Boris Johnson confirms raft of new lockdown rules - and they'll last for 6 months
The Prime Minister announced a blizzard of new measures on pubs, takeaways, masks and £200 fines as coronavirus rates soar - as he said the military could ...
Mirror Online
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/boris-johnson-confirms-raft-new-22723161

10,000 more deaths than usual occurred in UK homes since June
Excess deaths in private homes prompts fears people are avoiding hospitals due to Covid
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/24/10000-more-deaths-than-usual-occurred-in-uk-homes-since-june

Covid-19 carriers with no symptoms may be 'just as likely to transmit the virus' and only one in five patients don't suffer any signs of the disease, scientists say
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8760583/Covid-19-carriers-no-symptoms-just-likely-transmit-virus.html

UK coronavirus cases surge by highest figure ever with 6,634 new infections
40 more people have died, the Department of Health reported, including 30 in hospitals.
Mirror Online
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/breaking-uk-coronavirus-cases-surge-22737179

New rules, fines and local lockdowns in force from Monday
“These simple steps can make a huge difference to reduce the spread of the virus, but we will not hesitate to put in place further measures if cases continue to rise.”
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/new-rules-fines-local-lockdowns-19007989

Total social lockdown for London and the North? Government plans to shut pubs and restaurants for two weeks and ban all households from mixing indoors if Covid cases do not fall, but 'didn't reveal option last week because 'the nation wasn't ready''
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8779179/Government-introduce-total-social-lockdown-Covid-numbers-not-fall.html

Coronavirus news - live: Pub curfew doing ‘more harm than good’ as northeast faces total ban on household mixing
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/coronavirus-latest-news-today-uk-lockdown-fines-vaccine-million-cases-b665208.html

Coronavirus deaths increase for second consecutive week in England and Wales
There has been a rise in hospital and care home deaths, although this still remains low compared with the pandemic's peak.
https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-deaths-increase-for-second-consecutive-week-in-england-and-wales-12084969

Boris Johnson apologises for getting north-east England lockdown rules wrong
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/29/tories-competence-questioned-as-minister-fails-to-clarify-lockdown-rules

UK daily Covid-19 cases above 7,000 - Boris Johnson begs nation to stick to rules
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW5XYszDTPE

Coronavirus latest news: Liverpool restrictions expected to be announced this morning, says Mayor
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/coronavirus-news-uk-covid-cases-today-lockdown-update/

NO SOCIALIST DISTANCING Jeremy Corbyn issues grovelling apology after flouting coronavirus ‘rule of 6’ at dinner party for nine
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12813325/corbyn-flouts-rule-of-six-at-dinner-party/

Confusion is a major symptom of Covid-19 in frail older people: Study finds one in five hospital patients over 65 had delirium as their ONLY symptom of the disease
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8789105/Confusion-major-symptom-Covid-19-frail-older-people.html

Boris Johnson shows what happens when a world leader gets Covid-19
"It could have gone either way," Trump's British counterpart has said after he was rushed to hospital and put into intensive care in April.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/u-k-s-boris-johnson-has-showed-what-happens-when-n1241773

Covid: Northumbria University confirms 770 cases among students
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-54394199

Covid: UK announces more than 10,000 new cases for first time
The UK has announced more than 10,000 new coronavirus cases for the first time since mass testing began. There were 12,872 new cases, while a further 49 ...
BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-54404561


Coronavirus: More than 12,000 new cases announced after technical issue increases figure
The figure of 12872 is the highest recorded in the UK but the picture is not as clear as it seems.
Sky News
https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-more-than-12-000-new-cases-announced-after-technical-issue-increases-figure-12089368

Coronavirus vaccine may only go to half of Brits - here's who gets priority
The UK may vaccinate 30m out of 67m people. So who would be first to get it? Here's the current prioritisation list in full - with care home residents, over-50s, at risk groups and NHS and care staff all out in front
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/coronavirus-vaccine-may-only-go-22793293


Long Covid ‘could become a bigger health problem than excess deaths’
Read more: https://metro.co.uk/2020/10/05/long-covid-could-become-a-bigger-health-problem-than-excess-deaths-13371510/?ito=cbshare

Manchester is now England's Covid-19 capital with one in 200 people getting infected every week as official statistics reveal only NINE authorities saw infection rates drop last week
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8805847/Manchester-Britains-Covid-19-capital-NINE-authorities-saw-infections-drop-week.html

Coronavirus can survive for up to NINE HOURS on human skin - four-fold longer than the flu can live on our hands or faces, new study finds
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-8808063/Coronavirus-survive-NINE-HOURS-human-skin-study-finds.html

UK coronavirus cases surge by 17,540 overnight with daily infections up by more than 3,300 in 24 hours
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/health/uk-coronavirus-cases-up-17540-a4566776.html

Bristol University goes into lockdown with 300 students confined to halls
All 300 residents at Bristol's The Courtrooms accommodation block must 'only socialise with those in their living circle from this afternoon'.
Daily Mail
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8823045/Bristol-University-goes-lockdown-300-students-confined-halls.html

'The virus has taken off': Alarming study says 45,000 people get COVID every day in England
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/45000-catching-covid-every-day-england-162247851.html

Millions ‘to be asked not to leave local areas, with ban on households mixing & salons shut’ in new lockdown tomorrow
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12900620/millions-local-areas-beauty-salons-closed-lockdown/

More than 500 cases of coronavirus recorded in Kent in the last week
https://www.kentlive.news/news/kent-news/more-500-cases-coronavirus-recorded-4596866

Johnson details three-tier Covid rules for England - BBC News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1yNvWYfRtE

Coronavirus: Professor Chris Whitty says Tier 3 rules 'not sufficient' on their own to limit COVID-19
https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-professor-chris-whitty-admits-tier-3-rules-not-sufficient-on-their-own-to-limit-covid-19-12102767

Coronavirus: England's three-tier system comes into force, but PM warned measures don't go far enough
The country is being split into three COVID-19 alert levels, yet there are growing calls for the PM to take national action.
https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-three-tier-lockdown-system-comes-into-force-but-pm-under-pressure-to-take-more-action-12103618

How England's Covid-19 outbreak is still NOWHERE near the first peak: Cambridge University experts estimate more than 400,000 people caught Covid-19 the day before lockdown — but say nearly 50,000 are now getting infected daily
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8835557/Cambridge-academics-estimate-400-000-people-caught-Covid-19-day-lockdown.html

BOILING POINT Sadiq Khan piles pressure on Boris Johnson to put London on Tier 2 lockdown if cases jump over 100 per 100,000
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12919636/sadiq-khan-boris-london-lockdown/

London to go into 'high' tier of lockdown from midnight on Friday
London is to go into Tier 2 coronavirus restrictions from midnight on Friday evening, barring the capital's 9 million residents from meeting other households in ...
The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/london-lockdown-tier-restrictions-coronavirus-new-rules-boris-johnson-sadiq-khan-b1042597.html

London lockdown – Capital will go into Tier 2 from midnight on FRIDAY with household mixing banned
NINE million Londoners will be plunged into Tier 2 lockdown from midnight tomorrow with a ban on household mixing. Health Secretary Matt Hancock is set to ...
The Sun
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12931245/london-lockdown-tier-2/


Sadiq Khan calls for London support package from Government as he
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/sadiq-khan-tier-2-restrictions-support-package-government-a4570856.html

Coronavirus: More than 16,000 new COVID cases and 150 deaths confirmed in UK
It comes as large swathes of the UK come under stricter measures to counter the spread of the disease.
Sky News
https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-more-than-16-000-new-covid-cases-and-150-deaths-confirmed-in-uk-12106650