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Operators say homecare services crisis in England at worst point yet
Dec 15, 2021 07:08Vital visits to look after people with dementia and other disabilities are being denied amid rising demand in the UK – including families concerned about sending their loved ones to care homes during the pandemic – and staff shortages triggered by low pay and Brexit.
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Draconian UK law puts vulnerable asylum seekers at risk
Dec 13, 2021 12:27The most draconian immigration bill in the UK’s history would see vulnerable Afghans and other asylum seekers being criminalized and imprisoned for up to four years; pushed back at sea; sent abroad for offshore asylum processing, and afforded lesser rights as refugees simply for exercising their basic right to seek asylum in the UK.
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Scientists say Omicron could cause 75,000 deaths in England by end of April
Dec 13, 2021 12:20Leaked documents showed Sajid Javid, the UK’s Health Secretary, received a presentation from the Health and Security Agency recently warning that even if the Omicron variant leads to less serious disease than Delta, it risks overwhelming the NHS with 5,000 people admitted to hospital a day.
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Australian government stares down calls to press UK and US for Julian Assange’s release
Dec 13, 2021 12:16Australia says it is ‘not a party’ to case and will ‘respect the UK legal process’ after court clears way for WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange’s extradition to US.
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Environmental activists challenge ‘unlawful’ UK fossil fuel plan in high court
Dec 08, 2021 07:19Environmental campaigners will this week ask the high court to rule that the government’s fossil fuel strategy is unlawful, in a case that could undermine the UK’s claim to be leading the fight against climate change.
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Top scientist warns UK’s progress on COVID now squandered
Dec 06, 2021 12:10Sir Jeremy Farrar, British Director of Wellcome Trust who stepped down as a UK government scientific adviser recently, suggests emergence of Omicron variant means pandemic is far from over.
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Does the Omicron variant mean COVID is going to become more transmissible?
Dec 05, 2021 07:00In the case of coronavirus, there is also an obvious hole in the argument: transmission normally occurs before symptoms start or during the earliest stage of symptoms, meaning that severity of illness has little influence on the spread of the virus.
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Hamas terror listing is yet another UK betrayal of the Palestinians
Dec 04, 2021 06:43British Home Secretary Priti Patel has declared her intention to proscribe the whole of Hamas - the Islamic resistance movement that rules the Gaza Strip - as a terrorist organization.
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The new variant is worrying – but it doesn’t change how we tackle COVID
Dec 02, 2021 06:37The only way to stop B.1.1.529 and other coronavirus mutations is through testing, masks, and getting vaccines to everyone in the world
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Heavily mutated coronavirus variant puts scientists on alert
Nov 28, 2021 07:23Researchers in South Africa are racing to track the concerning rise of a new variant of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that causes COVID-19. The variant harbours a large number of the mutations found in other variants, including Delta, and it seems to be spreading quickly across South Africa.