Month: April 2020 News

Pandemic side-effects offer glimpse of alternative future on Earth Day 2020

Earth Day 2020 – live: Millions to gather online to demand urgent climate action as last year confirmed as Europe’s hottest on record

Air pollution may be ‘key contributor’ to Covid-19 deaths – study

Britons evacuated from Wuhan regret coming home

Ireland’s swift action leaves UK facing questions over its coronavirus strategy

Jacinda Ardern and ministers take pay cut in solidarity with those hit by Covid-19

Patel refuses to take children from Greek camps threatened by Covid-19

Trump turns against WHO to mask his own stark failings on Covid-19 crisis

Thousands of Americans backed by rightwing donors gear up for protests

Trump backs anti-lockdown protests as global deaths pass 150,000

Foreign NHS workers are risking their lives for us – and paying for the privilege

US and Russia blocking UN plans for a global ceasefire amid crisis

Scientists criticise UK government’s ‘following the science’ claim

Britain’s lack of testing is one of the worst failures of this crisis

Impossible for UK to meet Covid-19 testing targets, scientists say

Coronavirus: 38 days when Britain sleepwalked into disaster

NHS hospitals accused of risking staff lives by forgoing mask fit-tests

Millions of pieces of PPE are being shipped from Britain to Europe despite NHS shortages

Coronavirus: Lives could be at risk from thousands of new ventilators for the NHS, warn safety experts

UK scraps plans to buy thousands of BlueSky ventilators

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