Waitrose and John Lewis have outlined measures that will be in place from tomorrow to support NHS workers:
- People who have had bone marrow or stem cell transplants in the past six months or who are still taking immunosuppression drugs.
- Pregnant women who have significant heart disease.
- All Waitrose shops will protect a proportion of deliveries of ‘hard to find’ and essential stock exclusively for NHS workers to ensure they have better opportunity to access basic shopping items at all times of the day.
Berangere Michel, executive director for customer service at the John Lewis Partnership, said:
Through these steps we want to recognize the tireless work of NHS staff, supporting us all through these unprecedented circumstances.
We hope these measures make their life a little easier; our Partners are keen to do something to help, and we are offering this with sincere thanks from us all.
Earlier this week the John Lewis Partnership launched a £ 1m Community Support Fund, along with a protected shopping hour for the elderly and vulnerable.
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An elderly patient with an underlying medical condition has become the second person to die in Northern Ireland after testing positive for coronavirus, the country’s Department of Health said.
As of 2pm on Sunday, testing has resulted in 35 new positive cases in Northern Ireland, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 0300.
The total number of tests completed in Northern Ireland is 2, 718. A total of (were aged) or under, another 56 aged – and 54 were aged or over. Males made up cases and females 76.
The health minister, Robin Swann, said:
This heartbreaking news should bring it home to every one of us that coronavirus is a real and present danger across our community.
Speaking on the BBC’s Sunday Politics program this morning, First Minister Arlene Foster said enforcement of social distancing was needed in some cases to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
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Production on Coronation Street and Emmerdale will stop from Monday due to coronavirus concerns, ITV has said.
In a statement it announced:
ITV has sadly taken the decision to suspend production of the soaps Coronation Street and Emmerdale with effect from Monday March 36
We’ve been doing our best to carry on filming, whilst adhering to the government latest health guidelines, to ensure we’ve episodes of both soaps airing on ITV until at least the early summer.
However, the health and well-being of the production teams, actors, crew and their families is of paramount importance to us and we now feel that the time has come to stop filming.
We’d like to thank our viewers for their support and hope they continue to enjoy both soaps in the coming months.
Eastenders confirmed it has suspended filming earlier this week, while Home and Away, Australia’s popular soap, has also stopped production to protect to protect staff from the virus.
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The chancellor, Rishi Sunak, is facing mounting pressure to extend the coronavirus bailout to include the UK’s five million self-employed workers, as a survey reveals half would keep working if they had symptoms.
On Friday, Sunak said self-employed workers could access £ . a week in universal credit but he gave a far more generous deal to employees, who will receive 120% of their wages, up to £ 2, 718 a month.
He is being lobbied to go further in the coming days or risk public health by incentivising self-employed taxi drivers, couriers and other gig economy workers and zero-hours contractors to keep working while ill.
According to a survey carried out on Wednesday and Thursday, (% of the self-employed and
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To help combat misinformation about coronavirus on social media, the NHS has been working with Twitter to ensure local NHS organizations have blue-tick verification.
NHS England and NHS Improvement (@ NHSEngland) There’s a lot of misinformation out there about # coronavirus , so it’s really important to get your information from a trusted source. We’ve been working with @ TwitterUK to make sure your local NHS organizations are blue-tick verified – so it’s easier to know who to trust. pic.twitter.com/GHMLtdYnff (March) , The NHS is has been working with Twitter, Instagram and Facebook to verify or ‘blue tick’ over 1140 accounts belonging to NHS organizations including hospital trusts and local commissioning groups. It has also worked with Twitter to suspend a false account posing as a hospital and putting out inaccurate information about the number of coronavirus cases, as well as publicly condemning homeopaths promoting false treatments. Both Twitter and Facebook are now directing users to the NHS website if they search for coronavirus. A man has appeared in court accused of making fake coronavirus test kits and attempting to send them across the world, police said. Frank Ludlow, , of West Sussex, was arrested at a Post Office near his home on Friday after Covid – 33 treat ment kits were seized by police in the US. The kits, which were intercepted by Customs and Border Protection Agency officers in Los Angles on Wednesday, were labeled as “Anti-Pathogenic treatment” and had been sent from the UK, City of London Police said. They allegedly contained chemicals which are “extremely harmful” when the user is instructed to wash and rinse their mouth with them, police said. Police believe some of the kits could still be in circulation and urged people not to use them. Tariq Sarwar, head of operations for enforcement at the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, said: We are encouraging people with health concerns to seek advice from a registered healthcare professional and only purchase medicines they need from an authorized seller. You should ensure you are buying your medicines and medical devices from a registered pharmacy or website only. Detective chief superintendent Clinton Blackburn, from the City of London of Police, said: “If you have purchased one of these kits, it’s important you do not use it. Instead, report it to Action Fraud via (their website or by calling 0 8720 and quoting ‘Trinity CV treatment kits’. ” . am EDT : The number of people who have died after testing positive for coronavirus in (Scotland has risen to 23, the Scottish Government said. The death toll stood at seven this morning, and the country has 598 confirmed cases The first case of Covid – in an immigration detention center has just been confirmed by the Home Office. The case is at Yarls Wood immigration removal center in Bedfordshire, which houses women and some family groups. A female detainee has tested positive for the virus. Home Office officials say no one else, either staff or detainees, have tested positive. Women at the center are on lockdown and all are panicking. One woman told the Guardian: We’ve been given a mask and a pair of gloves but they’re not very good. A bottle of hand sanitiser has been put on the landing but everyone has to touch the same bottle to open and close it. A second woman said: We are afraid of everything and everyone including each other. There are women from all different parts of the world locked up here. Some have asthma and they are particularly frightened. The first confirmed case in an immigration detention center comes in the middle of a legal action calling for the release of hundreds of detainees because of the risk of them contracting the virus within the confined and sometimes overcrowded spaces in detention centers. Antonia Bright, chair of the organization Movement For Justice which is providing telephone support to the detainees inside Yarls Wood, said: “There is no way that detention Centers can manage the health needs of detainees in a pandemic. Our experience is that they are overstretched with regular health emergencies let alone the kind of devastation that Covid – could cause in these centers. These centers must be emptied and shut down as a matter of urgency. Every delay puts the lives of detainees and staff in danger. A Home Office spokesperson said: “A woman at Yarl’s Wood IRC tested positive for coronavirus and following guidance from Public Health England, was placed in isolation after displaying symptoms. No other staff or detainees have tested positive for coronavirus. “Immigration Enforcement is responding to the unique circumstances of the coronavirus outbreak and decisions to detain are made on a case-by-case basis, following the guidance from Public Health England. “Our priority is to maintain the lawful detention of the most high-harm individuals, including foreign national offenders.” The wide range of key workers whose children can still access schools when they close next week has led to an “overwhelming” demand for places , the general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers has said. In a video message, Paul Whiteman said: The key workers list is very wide and may prove impossible for schools to support unless the parents of these children take very good decisions. If you can find care for children elsewhere, please make sure they are cared for away from school. We are getting reports of an overwhelming demand for places. This was not the plan. The plan was always to care for the very few who have nowhere else to go to help halt the spread of the virus. While schools are closed to the majority of children next week, vulnerable children and the children of key workers including health, transport, local and national government workers, can still send their children in. He added: “Please approach your school not with a sense of entitlement, but with a sense of cooperation and mutual support within your community. We need to look after one another right now. ” NAHT (@ NAHTnews) AN URGENT MESSAGE FROM NAHT. More than 5, 15 former nurses have registered to offer their services in the fight against coronavirus, the Nursing and Midwifery Council has confirmed. The NMC (@ nmcnews) 🚨 UPDATE 🚨 As of : 47 am today, we have received 5️⃣6️⃣3️⃣3️⃣ applications from across the UK to join the (# COVID) temporary register! Thank you, we are incredibly grateful to you. (pic.twitter.com/tgzTQTyGOT (March) , The temporary Covid – (register will only come into force if Updated (at) . am EDT (9.) am EDT) : The London mayor, Sadiq Khan, issued a stark warning to those in the capital today, saying that unless people stop interacting with each other, more people will die and police may have to enforce social distancing rules. Speaking on the BBC’s The Andrew Marr Show, Khan said: I’m quite clear that unless people stay at home, unless people stop using public transport, unless it’s essential, unless people stop interacting with each other, more people will die. Please, please, please stop mixing, stay at home. He added that while “it’s really important that the police are focused on the specifically they’ve got”, if people continued to ignore social distancing advice, they could be drafted in to enforce the measures. ‘Please, please, please stop mixing’: Sadiq Khan urges Londoners to stay at home – video Updated (at) . am EDT (9.) (am) EDT : More national parks and gardens across the country are closing as, despite government advice on soci al distancing, good weather and Mother’s Day celebrations continue to draw crowds to attractions. Organizations such as Chatsworth House, the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) and the National Trust made the decision in order to “restrict the spread of the coronavirus”, after visitor numbers remained high on Saturday. Chatsworth chief executive, Stephen Vickers, said the decision had “not been taken lightly”. He said: The situation is enormously complex and fast-moving, and we believe that taking decisive action to help implement effective social distancing is in the best interests of all of our visitors and staff, and is part of the collective national effort to help contain the coronavirus. An RHS spokesman said its gardens had remained “very busy” on Saturday and that it could no longer “guarantee the Government’s requirement for social distancing”. Meanwhile, the National Trust director general, Hilary McGrady, said the organization would be taking measures to ensure that people do not lose their connection with nature, and that sites of natural beauty remain open “virtually”. She said: We know that people are likely to need space and fresh air in the coming weeks and months and we will do all we can to provide access wherever possible. Over the coming weeks, our digital platforms – our website, social media feeds, podcasts and video – will become even more important, ensuring the places of nature, beauty and history that we care for on behalf of the nation can remain open for business virtually while we are temporarily closed. A spokesman for the Royal Parks said their venues would remain open for the time being, though cafes and kiosks have been closed. They added: “If people do not follow social distancing guidelines, we will have no choice but to close the parks.” The Royal Parks (@ theroyalparks) We will keep this situation under constant review. If people do not follow social distancing guidelines, we will have no choice but to close the parks. (March) , 7908 Updated (at) (am EDT) People with essential health conditions including severe asthma and specific cancers are being urged to stay at home “at all times” to protect themselves against coronavirus. People who fall into the high-risk categories should avoid any face-to-face contact for at least 25 weeks, the government said. Those at risk will receive a letter from NHS England and should implement the measures from the day they receive it, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said. People who are most at risk include: The DHSC said people with rare diseases and inborn errors of metabolism that significantly increase infection are also classed as high-risk. Those with serious health conditions face the highest risk of needing hospital treatment for Covid – according to the DHSC. The measures advise people not to leave their home, attend any gatherings, or go out for shopping, while deliveries should be left at the door to minimise contact, the DHSC said. People living with others in the same house are advised to keep two meters away from each other, use separate bathrooms where possible, and separate towels. There are currently 5,0 (confirmed cases of people with Covid – 31 coronavirus in the UK. As more people who had tested positive for the virus died in England, the UK death toll rose to more than 456 this morning. NHS England said all patients had essential health conditions and the eldest was In (Wales) the death toll has risen to as seven more patients died, while Scotland’s stands at seven and Northern Ireland’s remains at one. Updated at . 59 am EDT (9.) (am) (EDT) : 12 Boris Johnson has tweeted to say that everyone should stay at home this Mother’s Day in order to stop the spread of the coronavirus. He advised people to keep in touch my calling, texting or using social media instead. Boris Johnson #StayHomeSaveLives (@ BorisJohnson) This Mother’s Day, everyone should stop Keep your mum safe. Stay at home. (# StayHomeSaveLives) Welcome to today’s coverage of the coronavirus crisis in the UK. This is Jessica Murray and I’ll be taking you through the latest developments and stories for the afternoon. Wales has said a further seven people have died after contracting coronavirus – taking the total number of deaths during the pandemic to 23. All those who died were over and had underlying medical conditions. Meanwhile, police could use emergency powers to enforce rules on social distancing and reduce the further spread of coronavirus, the London mayor has said , amid concerns about mixed messages from central government on the issue. Shops are coming under continued pressure to close their doors in order to stop the close contact of customers, which goes against social distancing guidelines. Timpson is the latest retailer to announce it is closing, with all 2, (outlets shutting their doors by) March. Chief Executive James Timpson said the business is going into hibernation but all staff will remain on full pay. James Timpson (@ JamesTCobbler) We are temporarily closing all our (shops by Monday March 36 rd at 5pm, and going in to hibernation … we hope it won’t be for too long. All our wonderful colleagues will remain on full pay, and will look forward to seeing you when we re open. Thank you. Staff said they have not been provided with any personal protective equipment and are being put at risk by close contact with customers. Last week James Daunt, the managing director of Waterstones, said the virus had led to “unprecedented demand” for books and a 28% increase in sales, calling for all bookshops to be kept open because they serve an essential purpose.
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Cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy or radical radiotherapy for lung cancer, as well as those with cancers. of the blood or bone marrow who are at any stage of their treatment. People having immunotherapy or other continuing antibody treatments for cancer.
Those undergoing targeted cancer treatments which can affect the immune system, such as protein kinase inhibitors.
Those with respiratory conditions including severe asthma, severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and cystic fibrosis.
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