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UK police chiefs have warned officers to stop taking part in TikTok social media crazes over concerns that their “unprofessional” behaviour is setting the wrong tone during the coronavirus pandemic. Police officers across the UK […]

London’s flagship Nightingale hopsital is to be closed to new patients and placed on standby ‘ready to resume operations as and when needed in the weeks and potentially months to come.’ The NHS hospital which […]

The UK Health Secretary has said that it is unlikely that the government would need to make a coronavirus vaccine compulsory Matt Hancock played down suggestions that the Government may have to make the vaccination […]

UK ministers are holding talks with a tech firm about creating ‘health passports’ to help Brits return to work safely using coronavirus testing and facial recognition. A UK-based firm Onfido which specialises in verifying people’s […]

The UK security and intelligence organization GCHQ has been handed extra powers to access information from the NHS IT systems during the Coronavirus pandemic. According to a statement, Health Secretary Matt Hancock bypassed parliamentary scrutiny […]

The British government is seeking to ban sex-change surgeries for children across the UK, according to reports. The government, headed by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, is concerned about the rising number of minors being advised […]

A major increase in state surveillance is a “price worth paying” to beat the coronavirus, according to the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI). The UK think tank founded by the former prime minister, […]

More than 100 MP’s in the UK have demanded that a universal basic income is introduced after the lockdown. In a letter to the government, MPs from seven opposition parties asked for the payments to […]

London mayor Sadiq Khan says “structural racism” is to blame for COVID-19 infections among the country’s minority groups. Khan has urged the British government to start collecting and publishing the ethnicities of those infected with […]

A UK vaccine for the coronavirus is to be tested on human ‘guinea pigs’ from Thursday. British health secretary Matt Hancock has promised to give medical teams everything they need but also warned that “nothing […]