College of Paediatrics and Child Health( RCPCH) has now called for the legal defence to be scrapped, using

her involvement with a number of deaths. November 2016: RCPCH finds no obvious factors linking eight

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THE number of daily Covid cases in the UK has dropped by a quarter in a week.A further 30, 825 infections were recorded in the latest 24 hour period, compared to 41, 192 reported on September 6.... The latest government figures come as the UK prepares its Covid plan for the colder months. Boris Johnson is said to be" very confident" a winter lockdown won't be needed, but has refused to rule one out completely.... He is preparing to unveil a toolbox of measures to avoid a seasonal spike and ris

Children as young as three should take part in mass Covid testing, a local council has told schools. Essex County Council is believed to be the first in the country to urge primary school pupils to take lateral flow tests twice a week when they return to the classroom after the October half-term holiday. Council chiefs wrote to parents saying: “ We have seen Covid-19 infections in primary school-aged children in Essex increasing over the past few weeks.“ At this rate, it is expected that some pr