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coronavirus

January 2, 2021

Year of unparalleled pressure leaves exhausted doctors on the brink, says BMA

The Chancellor must deliver on his promise to "give the NHS whatever it needs", said the BMA council chair in his New Year message.
January 1, 2021

National Education Union says government is ignoring SAGE advice

It is clear from SAGE documents that school pupils and school staff are infecting each other, and that school age children have the highest rates of infection, says the National Education Union.
December 22, 2020

35,000 households to be hit by benefit cap at Christmas, says CPAG

The benefit cap is increasing child poverty, and in the context of a coronavirus recession is transparently nonsensical and wrong, says Child Poverty Action Group.
November 24, 2020

Civilians bearing brunt of surge in violence in Nagorno-Karabakh

Many families with babies and young children are spending days and nights sheltering in unheated basements in an effort to escape the violence.
November 23, 2020

Education union calls for action on COVID-19 transmission in schools

Secondary and primary schools were the second and third most commonly reported location by people testing positive for coronavirus.
November 21, 2020

Government complicity fuels coronavirus among Brazil's indigenous people

The ongoing invasion and destruction of Yanomami land by illegal goldminers means coronavirus is spreading rapidly in the territory.
September 18, 2020

Advice for renters in England worried about eviction

As the ban on evictions comes to an end this weekend, renters in arrears face the possibility of losing their home.
September 17, 2020

Interview with Bernadette Meaden

Q. Your new book, Illness, Disability and Caring draws on the wisdom of the Bible to help us better understand various aspects of illness, disability and caring.
September 14, 2020

Foodbanks forecast to give out six emergency food parcels a minute this winter

The Trussell Trust has released a report revealing how coronavirus has affected food bank use, with a huge rise in people needing to use a food bank in its network for the first time.
August 22, 2020

Six million fall behind on bills because of coronavirus

Those who were shielding, unpaid carers and key workers are at least twice as likely to have fallen behind on a household bill because of coronavirus.