Coronavirus shielding advice to end on 1 April – Hancock
More than 3.7 million people in England will no longer have to stay at home to avoid the virus. Source link
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Covid-19: Nightingale hospitals to close from April
The temporary hospitals, which were largely unused, are being shut as patient numbers fall. Source link
Hospital waiting list ‘may double to 10m by April’
Community diagnostic centres for cancer, cardiac and other conditions should be set up to restart screening programmes halted by the pandemic, coupled with a renewed focus on prioritising those most urgently in need of care currently on waiting lists, it said. And for routine treatments, it said more use should be made of the private … Read more
Coronavirus vaccine: PM expects ‘tens of millions’ of jabs by April
Patients will receive the AstraZeneza vaccine from Monday, when 530,000 doses will be ready. Source link
Covid patients ‘less likely to die than in April’
University of Oxford researchers previously estimated the proportion of coronavirus patients dying each day in hospitals in England had fallen from 6% to 1.5% between the peak in April and June. Source link