Number of Covid-19 victims continues to rise at Northampton General Hospital Northampton is continuing to report increasing numbers of people dying at the town's major hospital after testing positive for Covid-19 victims.
On the day further easing of the Government's lockdown restrictions came into force, NHS data revealed four more fatalities among patients testing positive for the coronavirus at Northampton General Hospital. Northampton Chronicle and Echo
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Tuesday, 2 June 2020
Preventing and managing the Covid-19 pandemic across long-term care services in the WHO European Region
Preventing and managing the Covid-19 pandemic across long-term care services in the WHO European Region This technical guidance identifies ten policy objectives for decision-makers, policy-makers and national or regional health authorities as they strive to prevent and manage the COVID-19 pandemic in long-term care settings. The focus is on older people above the age of 65 years who use long-term care services in their homes, day centres or designated facilities (residential homes and nursing homes). World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe
UK reaches 200,000 coronavirus testing capacity target a day early
UK reaches 200,000 coronavirus testing capacity target a day early Following the rapid expansion of coronavirus testing, the UK reached the 200,000 capacity target on Saturday 30 May, including capacity for 40,000 antibody tests a day. Department of Health and Social Care
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- Detailed guide: Number of coronavirus (COVID-19) cases and risk in the UK Department of Health and Social Care
- Guidance: Coronavirus (COVID-19): looking after people who lack mental capacity Department of Health and Social Care
- Top NHS doctor issues advice for children going back to school NHS England
- Guidance: COVID-19: guidance on shielding and protecting people defined on medical grounds as extremely vulnerable Public Health England
- Guidance: PHE data series on deaths in people with COVID-19: technical summary Public Health England
- Relaxation of lockdown measures is not a 'green light' to return to previous way of life, College warns patients Royal College of General Practitioners
Coronavirus: How dangerous is lifting lockdown?
Coronavirus: How dangerous is lifting lockdown? Lockdown is starting to ease.
Across the UK we can meet more people, while in England some children are back in school and car showrooms and open-air markets have reopened.
But some scientists, even those advising government, have been in mutinous mood - saying ministers are acting too soon.
And the lifting of restrictions has been described as a "dangerous moment" even by England's deputy chief medical officer. BBC News
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Across the UK we can meet more people, while in England some children are back in school and car showrooms and open-air markets have reopened.
But some scientists, even those advising government, have been in mutinous mood - saying ministers are acting too soon.
And the lifting of restrictions has been described as a "dangerous moment" even by England's deputy chief medical officer. BBC News
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- Relaxing lockdown 'risky' and 'political decision' BBC News
- Coronavirus: GPs not told when patients removed from 'shielding lists' BBC News
- Coronavirus: Shielders in England allowed outdoors again from Monday BBC News
- Coronavirus: More than two million in UK waiting for cancer care BBC News
- Coronavirus: UK exceeds 200,000 testing capacity target BBC News
- Coronavirus England: Experts warns end of shielding is 'rushed' The Daily Mail
- Chris Whitty thwarted Boris Johnson's wish to downgrade UK's coronavirus threat level The Daily Mail
- NHS contact tracing system to tackle coronavirus is STILL not working properly The Daily Mail
- Five new drugs to be trialled on NHS Covid-19 patients The Daily Mail
- NHS trusts were told to carry out thousands of tests with two days notice in race to hit 200000 target The Daily Telegraph
- What the new UK lockdown rules mean for you The Daily Telegraph
- Exercise Cygnus: NHS doctor's legal bid to force Government to release papers on pandemic preparedness The Daily Telegraph
- Privacy group prepares legal challenge to NHS test-and-trace scheme The Guardian
- Coronavirus in England: half of those with symptoms not isolating The Guardian
- NHS England 'knew nothing' of change to shielding guidance Health Service Journal
- NHS Test and Trace: Matt Hancock admits he can't say how many people have used Covid-19 contact tracing system five days after it launched iNews
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