https://news.sky.com/story/coronavir...-shut-11962600

[People will only be allowed to leave their home for the following very limited purposes:

Shopping for basic necessities, as infrequently
as possible
One form of exercise a day - for example
a run, walk, or cycle - alone or with members
of your household
Any medical need, to provide
care or to help a vulnerable person
Travelling to and from work, but only
where this is absolutely necessary
and cannot be done from home]

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/coron...cid=spartanntp

More than 7,500 former NHS staff have heeded the government’s call to rejoin the health service and help tackle the coronavirus outbreak. They include about 5,633 nurses and midwives and 1,930 doctors.
Matt Hancock told MPs on Monday that 7,563 clinical staff had applied to come back into the NHS by seeking to rejoin the register for their professionservice-in-coronavirus-drive/ar-BB11B7mU?ocid=spartanntp

Police have new powers

Contactless card limit to rise to £45.00 from next week

https://www.theguardian.com/money/20...nning-of-april

https://www.business-live.co.uk/manu...plant-17969972

Company to build new hand sanitiser plant in the next 10 days

Chemicals company Ineos is to build a hand sanitiser plant near Middlesbrough to produce one million bottles a month within 10 days, the company has announced.
The company is already making hand sanitiser at its plants in Scotland and Germany but has reacted to the global shortage by saying it will make more at a plant on Teesside.


The sanitiser will be provided free to hospitals and says it wants to “concentrate on meeting the needs of front line medical and care services as well as making the 'pocket bottle' hand sanitisers for personal use for people across the UK and Europe.

HMRC Coronavirus Helpline for self employed

0300 4563565

11,700 retired medics and nurses have now signed up to return

250,000 volunteers required now

People can register as an NHS volunteer here: https://www.goodsamapp.org/NHS.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-new...58000-21749811

170,000 sign up in 16 hours

MOT extension for 6 months from 30th March 2020

https://metro.co.uk/2020/03/25/drive...h-30-12452991/

Target of 250,000 volunteers now exceeded

405,000 now signed up


register as an NHS volunteer here: https://www.goodsamapp.org/NHS.

Not sure about this one, there'll be an awful lot of unfit cars on the road?

We've discovered a fun new health condition our car has: if he's not been fired up for over 24h he really struggles to start at all. Probably in need of an oil change. But this is the first time in well over a year the car hasnt been used every day.

For now we're working round it by firing him up and revving the engine for a bit every day even if we're not going anywhere but I feel like we may need to brave the garage :worry:.

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Briefing 25th March 2020

Clap for the NHS at 8pm tonight 26/03/2020

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/heal...-a4398106.html


People in the UK are being encouraged to show their appreciation for the country's nurses and doctors fighting the coronavirus pandemic by taking part in a huge round of applause.
At 8pm tonight, people at home are encouraged to clap from doors, windows, gardens and balconies to set off an applause for NHS staff working on the frontline of the crisis.

you could take it to the other thread :shrug: I can see you hate being told what to do but just stop ****ing posting in here

From 1/4/20 contactless payment limited will go up from £30 to £45 to help fight the coronavirus

All nhs staff to get free parking

Update 27th March 2020

Some banks are now cancelling overdraft fees for a 3 month period

NHS frontline staff to be tested from this weekend.

A breathing aid that can help keep coronavirus patients out of intensive care has been created in under a week.

University College London engineers worked with clinicians at UCLH and Mercedes Formula One to build the device, which delivers oxygen to the lungs without needing a ventilator.

Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) devices are already used in hospitals but are in short supply.

China and Italy used them to help Covid-19 patients.

Forty of the new devices have been delivered to ULCH and to three other London hospitals. If trials go well, up to 1,000 of the CPAP machines can be produced per day by Mercedes-AMG-HPP, beginning in a week's time.

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has already given its approval for their use.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52087002

credit to BOTs

20,000 nurses and medics have now come out of retirement

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...-a9432371.html

Uber will give away hundreds of thousands of free trips and meals to NHS staff working on the frontlines during the coronavirus outbreak.
The taxi and food delivery company said that as of Monday 30 March, it will offer 200,000 complimentary trips and 100,000 meals to medical staff in order to support them while they work with patients who have been infected by Covid-19.

We’re covering 100,000 free meals through Uber Eats, from thousands of restaurants and convenience stores. NHS and HSC staff can choose to order a hot meal from a local restaurant, or essential items from a nearby shop available on the Uber Eats app, all delivered directly to them.

To help keep the NHS and HSC on the move, we’re also committing 200,000 free rides to and from work, which will be available to all staff with a valid NHS or HSC email address.

We want to help reduce the pressure on the heroes on the frontline of the coronavirus crisis, so please share this email with anyone you know who works for the NHS. And while you’re at it, please thank them for all that they do.

Terms and conditions apply. Please see our website for more deta

Sainsburys have banned couples from shopping together, this is also in force with all the other supermarkets, parents with children who cannot be left at home can bring their children.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...istancing.html

update 2nd April 2020

Asda have setup a shopping card scheme where the vulnerable can top up online and allow others to do shopping for them and pay for it with that card https://cards.asda.com/volunteer . They have also introduced "Scan and Go" where customers scan their shopping with their mobile phone and pay for it directly rather than at the till

A 99-year-old English man has raised nearly £1.5 million for British health workers by attempting to walk the length of his garden one hundred times before his 100th birthday later this month.
Captain Tom Moore, who has used a walker to move around since breaking his hip, said he was grateful to the National Health Service for the treatment he received and wanted to do something in return.
Britain's state-funded NHS is under severe strain as it treats large numbers of people suffering from Covid-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus.

Medics have been widely praised for their bravery and professionalism during the crisis, including by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who recovered from the virus after being treated by the NHS in a London hospital.
Capt Moore, who turns 100 on 30 April, had hoped to raise £500,000, but his charity campaign has nearly tripled that figure already.
The military veteran, who served in Asia during World War Two, had a message of hope for his compatriots.
"That's the way I think I've always looked at things: tomorrow will be a good day," he said.

The first UK-built ventilators backed by a consortium of leading manufacturers have been delivered to hospitals over the weekend, with another device now in final clinical trials.
It is understood a number of ParaPac devices, made by Smiths Medical – whose production lines have been boosted by the involvement of The Ventilator Challenge UK (TVUK) group – were sent to wards across the UK in the last few days.
Production of the model, which was already being built before the Covid-19 outbreak, was scaled up by the involvement of the consortium, which includes Formula One racing teams Mercedes, McLaren and Williams.

A 99-year-old English man has raised nearly £1.5 million for British health workers by attempting to walk the length of his garden one hundred times before his 100th birthday later this month.
Captain Tom Moore, who has used a walker to move around since breaking his hip, said he was grateful to the National Health Service for the treatment he received and wanted to do something in return.
Britain's state-funded NHS is under severe strain as it treats large numbers of people suffering from Covid-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus.

Medics have been widely praised for their bravery and professionalism during the crisis, including by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who recovered from the virus after being treated by the NHS in a London hospital.
Capt Moore, who turns 100 on 30 April, had hoped to raise £500,000, but his charity campaign has nearly tripled that figure already.
The military veteran, who served in Asia during World War Two, had a message of hope for his compatriots.
"That's the way I think I've always looked at things: tomorrow will be a good day," he said.
https://www.rte.ie/news/newslens/202...436-tom-moore/

6.5 million raised at 15th April 2020

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I think I have something in my eye.... :bawling:

These are the ones they said could be made 1000 a week iirc?

Hang on...

https://www.mclaren.com/group/news/a...p-ventilators/