£60,000 payout for each NHS staff who die of coronavirus

Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, has announced that the families of NHS and social care workers who die after contracting Covid-19 in the course of their duties will each receive £60,000 compensation from the government.

From "very low risk"​ to 10,000 hospital deaths in just 80 days

Just eighty days ago the Chief Medical Officer, Professor Chris Whitty, had assessed that the UK population was at ‘very low risk’ from the new emerging coronavirus.