Elon Musk has said he “most likely” has a moderate case of COVID-19, as he continued to question the accuracy of the tests. “Am getting wildly different results from different labs, but most likely I have a moderate case of covid. My symptoms are that of a minor cold, which is no surprise, since a
Month: November 2020
The coronavirus lockdown tier system being used in England “was not very well thought out”, a government scientific adviser has said. Under current plans, a regional tiered system is set to replace the national lockdown when it ends on 2 December. However, professor John Edmunds, a member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE),
Anti-vaccination content should be “stamped-out” on social media, Labour has said. With hopes rising of a COVID-19 jab being rolled out by the end of the year, the opposition has called for emergency legislation to “stamp out dangerous anti-vax content”. The party wants the government to bring forward legislation that would include financial and criminal
Donald Trump supporters have been protesting in Washington DC after the president appeared to hint he may not be in the White House for much longer. Thousands of demonstrators marched towards Freedom Plaza near the White House in downtown DC before heading towards the US Supreme Court building. “Stop the steal!” and “We are the
Ten people have died after a fire broke out on an intensive care ward treating coronavirus patients in Romania. Seven others are critically injured following the fire at a hospital in the city of Piatra Neamt on Saturday. Apart from one person, all those killed or injured are COVID-19 patients, according to emergency services spokesperson
Dominic Cummings has been seen for the first time since leaving Downing Street after leaving his role as the PM’s top adviser. The former senior adviser came out of the basement of his home in Islington on Saturday afternoon before getting into a waiting car. He refused to answer questions from journalists outside his home
Olivia Wilde and Jason Sudeikis are breaking up after dating for nearly 10 years. According to People, the director and comedian broke up at the beginning of this year, with a source explaining: “It’s been amicable and they’ve transitioned into a great co-parenting routine. “The children are the priority and the heart of the family’s
The high street tycoon Sir Philip Green is this weekend trying to secure tens of millions of pounds in fresh funding to keep his TopShop empire afloat. Sky News has learnt that Arcadia Group has approached several potential lenders about borrowing roughly £30m to prop up the business after seeing its pre-Christmas trading plans wrecked
Two rockets have hit Ethiopia’s Amhara state, amid fierce fighting in the neighbouring region of Tigray, the government says. The explosions occurred in Bahir Dar and Gondar late on Friday, according to Amhara’s communication office and state news. One of the rockets hit the airport in Gondar and left it partially damaged, according to a
Kylie Minogue has become the first female artist to have a number one album in the UK across five decades. Mostly recorded at home during lockdown, Disco – her 15th studio album in which she revisits her dance music roots – notched up the best opening week for any UK release so far in 2020 with
Russian peacekeeping troops have moved into Nagorno-Karabakh after the country secured a peace deal with Armenia and Azerbaijan. The Moscow-brokered ceasefire secured territorial advances for Azerbaijan around the ethnic Armenian region within Azeri borders, where Azeri troops have been battling ethnic Armenian forces over the past six weeks. Moscow agreed the accord without consultation with
Greggs has announced plans to cut more than 800 jobs as a result of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The boss warned that the bakery chain “will not be profitable as a business” if sales continue at the rates they have been in lockdown. In a statement posted on its employee information website earlier this week,
Boris Johnson’s right-hand man Dominic Cummings has left Downing Street after a power struggle that has rocked the prime minister’s administration. Mr Johnson‘s senior advisor exited Number 10 carrying a large box on Friday evening following a bitter dispute which also led to the resignation of Mr Cummings’ fellow Vote Leave veteran Lee Cain as
While Americans have voted by mail in many election cycles, the number of people who voted by mail in 2020 was unprecedented because of the coronavirus pandemic. To avoid the crowds at polling locations on election day, more than 100 million Americans cast early or absentee votes, doubling the total who did so in 2016.
A new pilot is set to launch that will give family members the chance to visit loved ones in care homes over Christmas. The scheme will take place in several homes in Hampshire, Cornwall and Devon from 16 November, in the hope it can be rolled out more widely before the festive period. One family
The founder of the UK’s largest independent travel firm, who saved thousands of Thomas Cook staff from losing their jobs when the holiday giant went bust, has died. John Hays, who started the company in 1980 out of the back of his mother’s childrenswear shop in County Durham, collapsed on Friday while working at its
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