Search results for ‘Department of Health’
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FactCheck: business secretary wrong about testing figures
Alok Sharma said 240,000 people had been tested on Monday.
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Revealed: Shocking conditions in PPE factories supplying UK
Investigation reveals exploitation of workers in world’s largest glove company
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Covid UK deaths lowest for six weeks
The number of deaths involving corona virus in the UK has reached its lowest weekly level for six weeks
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Is south Wales the new epicentre of Covid-19?
Various media reports have emerged since March, saying that south Wales is an infection hotspot.
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FactCheck: the new coronavirus lockdown rules
Here’s what we learned today about going outdoors, meeting family, schools reopening, face coverings and social distancing.
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‘Catastrophic impact’ on care homes feared unless testing improved
There could be a “catastrophic impact” on care homes if the government does not act more decisively on testing, according to the chief executive of Care England.
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‘We need to be careful about telling people they are immune when they might not be’ – Prof Sarah Walker on Covid-19 study
To ease the lockdown we need a much better understanding of who has had Covid-19, especially if they were not showing any symptoms, who might get it and how badly.
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FactCheck: advice on ibuprofen and paracetamol changes again
Current advice to the public is that patients can take paracetamol or ibuprofen when self-medicating with Covid-19 symptoms.
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Coronavirus tracing app has ‘potential to stop the epidemic’, say Oxford scientists
More than half of the population will need to use the app in order to stop the virus completely.
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FactCheck: can we trust the Covid-19 death toll?
Counting the number of people who have tragically died from Covid-19 is proving to be a complicated task. Here is FactCheck’s user’s guide to the statistics…
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FactCheck: how reliable are the UK’s coronavirus tests?
How reliable are the results from the current coronavirus tests?
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FactCheck: caution advised on Covid-19 death toll
Experts have long warned not to put too much weight on deaths reported on a single day.
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FactCheck: confusion over NHS England testing numbers
When Michael Gove said “we had 10,000 tests yesterday”, he was talking about patients being tested, not healthcare workers
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FactCheck: how many ventilators do we have in the UK?
Health Secretary Matt Hancock said “there’s now over 12,000 that we’ve managed to get to”.
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FactCheck: why hasn’t Britain closed its schools?
Boris Johnson has said that closing schools could do “more harm than good”.