Explainer-in-brief: As NHS chiefs call for more rules, is Covid-19 back? April 12, 2022 Just as many of us were beginning to feel like the worst of Covid-19 was behind us, the chief executive of the NHS Confederation has warned that Easter could be ‘as bad as any winter’ in the health service. In the last week, around 20 NHS trusts issued divert warnings, telling ambulances to take patients [...]
London lawyers expect boom in legal disputes on the back of Brexit and Covid-19 April 11, 2022 London litigators are readying themselves for a new wave of litigation lawsuits on the back of Brexit and Covid-19. In a survey carried out by the London Solicitors Litigation Association (LSLA), 84 per cent of lawyers polled said they expect a surge in the number of Covid related contractual disputes. Another 70 per cent of [...]
Panic in China’s richest city as 25m residents of Covid-ridden Shanghai run out of food in world’s strictest lockdown April 8, 2022 Frustration, panic and anger is growing in Shanghai as millions of residents are struggling to get their hands on meat, rice and other food supplies while the government tries to contain a spreading Covid outbreak with anti-coronavirus controls that confine most of its 25m people to their homes, People in China’s business capital have complained [...]
Manchester airport director quits after passengers miss flights due to long queue chaos April 5, 2022 Manchester Airport’s director has quit her role after eight years, following mounting criticism over chaos with queuing. Karen Smart left on Tuesday after Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham said emergency services could be drafted in to deal with the mayhem. Long queues developed over the past month due to lengthy security checks, which led to [...]
Shanghai completely shut: ‘Extremely grim’ Covid outbreak in China’s biggest city deepens with 26m people confined to their homes April 5, 2022 Amid an ongoing lockdown confining around 26m in Shanghai, a city official said this afternoon local time that the Covid-19 outbreak in China’s largest metropolis of Shanghai is “extremely grim” The director of Shanghai’s working group on epidemic control, Gu Honghui, was quoted by state media as saying the outbreak in the city was “still [...]
Supermarket till sales down four per cent last month as online shopping and cost of living hit hard April 5, 2022 Supermarket till sales continue to feel the impact of online buying brought about by the pandemic, with a four per cent fall last month. A new study indicates that online sales also fell almost 20 per cent from last year, as the cost of living crisis continues to change consumer habits. The report by NielsenIQ [...]
Axa vows not to appeal ruling over Corbin & King’s £4.4m claim for Covid linked losses April 3, 2022 Axa has said it will not appeal a High Court ruling ordering it to pay out £4.36m to high end restaurateur Corbin & King, after the firm was forced to close its restaurants during the pandemic. The French insurer said it would not appeal the February decision after it initially refused to pay the restaurant [...]
Tesco to stock £2 lateral flow tests from Friday March 31, 2022 Tesco is going to stock £2 lateral flow tests in store and online as of tomorrow. The supermarket giant signed a deal with healthcare firm Everything Genetic, as the government ends access to free lateral flows. The £2 kits, which are “less than a price of a takeaway coffee” will be available in more than [...]
Randox delays release of audited results amid concerns over Covid procurement process March 30, 2022 Covid test maker Randox has delayed release of its audited results amid mounting scrutiny over the government’s decision to award it contracts worth almost £777m. The delay to publication comes after the UK’s public spending watchdog said the government failed to document the procurement process that led to Randox being awarded 22 government contracts for [...]
Government sets boundaries for free lateral flow entitlement as ‘new phase’ of pandemic dawns March 29, 2022 Free COVID tests will remain available to certain groups even after the government scraps universal testing from Friday onwards.
