The coronavirus pandemic could push an additional half a billion people into poverty, aid charity Oxfam has warned,

"For nearly three billion people living in poverty and without enough clean water, jobs and access to basic healthcare - and for millions already facing years of malnutrition, disease and conflict - the coronavirus …

Hardest hit by the lockdown will be the cancer sufferers, the elderly, those with poor mental health, young children and those currently in utero.

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Economic downturn and wider NHS disruption likely to hit health hard – especially health of most vulnerable

Hardest hit by the lockdown will be the cancer sufferers, the elderly, those with poor mental health, young children and those currently in utero.

Economic downturn and wider NHS disruption likely to hit health hard – especially health of most vulnerable

Worsening economic conditions and disruptions to NHS services will have …

Government support is inadequate to protect work of key charities.

Macmillan Cancer Support chief executive Lynda Thomas said the [government] support did not go far enough.

"We are deeply concerned this commitment fails to recognise the scale of the challenge," she said.

"It won't prevent many of the nation's charities …

People older than 65 represent 18% of the population but 93% of those who have died from COVID-19 - it is especially older people who are dying "with" COVID-19

The office for National Statistics has provided a breakdown by age of who died "with" COVID-19 in week ending 2020-03-20, together with …

Prof Robert Dingwall: "...the assumptions used in modelling the pandemic may rest on very flimsy foundations in terms of scientific evidence. This work suggests that UK schools could, and should, begin to reopen as soon as practicable after the initial wave of cases has passed through."

"This is an important …

Events in Italy, where emotionally driven over-reactions to events have caused more additional deaths, may reflect a bigger global pattern, where reason has lost to hysteria.

Good article drawing upon Italian experience and explaining, among other things, how emotional overreaction to circumstances can be deadly.

"The decision to transfer patients …

Tom Jefferson, an epidemiologist and honorary research fellow at the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at the University of Oxford, said the findings were “very, very important.” He told The BMJ,

“The sample is small, and more data will become available. Also, it’s not clear exactly how these cases were …

Cath Kidston, the floral fashion brand, and Department store Debenhams is set to file for administration as the coronavirus shutdown pushes High Street retailers to breaking point.

The move will put nearly 950 jobs at risk at the company which is best-known for its brightly-coloured designs.

Debenhams, the department store …

Britain’s economy looks set for a slump that in the short term could be deeper than during the depression of the 1930s, as a survey showed the coronavirus crisis caused a record downturn among services and manufacturing firms in March.

Andrew Wishart, an economist at Capital Economics, said the …