Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. The U.S. reached a grim milestone on Monday as the novel coronavirus death toll surpassed 80,000. Globally, COVID-19 has been linked to more than 283,000 fatalities, and over 4.1 million cases. The number of deaths in the U.S. is… Read More »
By Sam Wong , Adam Vaughan , Conrad Quilty-Harper and Layal Liverpool Prime minister Boris Johnson during Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons, London on 6 May. Latest coronavirus news as of 5 pm on 6 May UK coronavirus official death toll passes 30,000 – the second highest in the world The UK… Read More »
The global death toll from the coronavirus pandemic surpassed 10,000 on Friday morning. In addition to the 10,038 deaths, approximately two-thirds of which occurred in China and Italy, there have been nearly a quarter of a million confirmed cases around the globe. There have also been 86,035 people who have recovered from the COVID-19 virus,… Read More »
Change course or a quarter of a million people will die in a “catastrophic epidemic” of coronavirus – warnings do not come much starker than that. The message came from researchers modelling how the disease will spread, how the NHS would be overwhelmed and how many would die. The science has shifted dramatically and as… Read More »