'Love and caring is all we need. Happy new year to every one and let's hope next year is the best year for every one. I just want to thank the NHS for helping my husband hopefully recover this. Fingers crossed x.' … [Read more...] about Mark Wright is forced to self-isolate after his teammates test positive for coronavirus as he spends his birthday in quarantine at home
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Requiem for the High Street: Retail industry faces 200,000 job cuts this year after 320 shops closed every week in 2020 – while Nike, Gap and Vans are latest flagship stores set to leave Oxford Street
Quiz, the Glasgow-based fashion group, put its physical stores division into administration in early June. Ninety-three head-office and warehouse redundancies have already been declared. The business wants to renegotiate rents for its 82 stores and the eventual size of the group will only be known, when this has been done. KPMG has been appointed to review the firm's options, which are likely to include store closures. There are 915 staff in the stores division. Quiz's online business continues unaffected, as are its 300+ concessions.Victoria's Secret, the UK arm of the U.S.-owned global retailer, went into administration early in June 2020 having made a loss now known (Aug 2020) to be £100m in the last financial year. The UK fashion trade has experienced a torrid three years and the coronavirus lockdown, which prevented 'non-essential' stores trading (though not online), has been the final hammer blow. Victoria's Secret has probably lost its original appeal: the aftermath of the … [Read more...] about Requiem for the High Street: Retail industry faces 200,000 job cuts this year after 320 shops closed every week in 2020 – while Nike, Gap and Vans are latest flagship stores set to leave Oxford Street
Travellers arriving in the UK may have to PAY for their own two-week stay in quarantine hotels under Australia-style plans in the pipeline
A University of Oxford and Public Health England evaluation of the Innova lateral flow test, which is being widely used in the UK, found its sensitivity - the proportion of positive cases it detected - fell from 79 per cent to 58 per cent when it was used by untrained members of the public instead of lab experts. … [Read more...] about Travellers arriving in the UK may have to PAY for their own two-week stay in quarantine hotels under Australia-style plans in the pipeline
Proof lockdown IS working? Test and Trace data shows Covid cases fell 15% to 330,000 during the first week of England’s shutdown after mass study claimed infections ROSE in first 10 days of national restrictions
Professor Tim Spector, a King's College London epidemiologist who is running his own Covid Symptom Study using constantly updating data from a mobile app, told MailOnline the Imperial researchers 'can't really judge the effects of lockdown with their survey'. … [Read more...] about Proof lockdown IS working? Test and Trace data shows Covid cases fell 15% to 330,000 during the first week of England’s shutdown after mass study claimed infections ROSE in first 10 days of national restrictions
Mutant ‘Kent’ strain of coronavirus had already been in the US for SIX WEEKS before the UK flagged its existence, study finds
'Another possibility is that the non-B.1.1.7 lineages circulating in the US, particularly in California, may be more transmissible than the non-B.1.1.7 lineages in England with which B.1.1.7 has been competing, giving B.1.1.7 less of a transmission advantage and, thus, a slower displacement rate of non-B.1.1.7 lineages.' … [Read more...] about Mutant ‘Kent’ strain of coronavirus had already been in the US for SIX WEEKS before the UK flagged its existence, study finds