Thousands of homes in east London and Essex are still experiencing a complete water outage or low water pressure, almost a week after a series of pipes burst in South Woodford. Thames Water has repeatedly apologised for the outage and said it expects to have supplies restored by Friday. The heat is
Read more: UK's Hottest Day: Fifth Heatwave Peaks at 38.1°CA lawyer for the families of the children murdered by Southport killer Axel Rudakubana has said his transfer from prison to a psychiatric hospital may be an attempt to "manipulate the system". Rudakubana, 19, was given a life sentence for the murder of three children - Alice da Silva Aguiar, 9, Bebe
Read more: Families' Lawyer Says Rudakubana Is Manipulating the SystemAll teenagers should be offered a free vaccine against meningitis B (MenB) at around the age of 15, UK experts are now recommending - a change to previous advice. It follows concerns over the UK's largest and fastest growing outbreak that happened in Kent earlier this year, in which two people died.
Read more: Experts Urge Free MenB Vaccine for 15-Year-OldsImage source, Getty Images By Jim Reed Health reporter The lives of NHS staff and patients were put at risk in the pandemic because of a lack of adequate personal protective equipment (PPE), with almost £10bn of taxpayers money wasted in a scramble to buy more, the Covid inquiry has said. The chair
Read more: Covid inquiry: PPE failures exposed and £10bn wastedThe Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo could have begun as early as January, the head of the World Health Organization said, giving the virus “a big head start”. Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus also said the response was being hindered by blanket travel restrictions and highlighted
Read more: WHO: DRC Ebola outbreak may have started in JanuaryPeople from a town in central Kenya where the US wants to set up an Ebola quarantine facility for its citizens have strongly criticised the plan, saying they fear it will expose them to the virus and that it is indicative of double standards on the part of the US. “Everybody should be quarantined in
Read more: Kenyans Protest US Plan for Ebola Quarantine in NanyukiContaining the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo requires community cooperation and is “everybody’s business”, the World Health Organization has said. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the organisation’s director general, made the plea on Sunday during a visit to eastern Congo where some
Read more: WHO Urges Community Action to Stop Ebola in DRCThe death rate of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is between 30% and 50%, the World Health Organization has said, as its head arrived in the country to support efforts to contain the disease. Anaïs Legand, from the WHO’s high threat pathogens team, said the revised death r
Read more: WHO: Ebola death rate 30–50% as director visits DRCThe Trump administration is building a quarantine and treatment center in Kenya for Americans affected by the Ebola outbreak, instead of bringing them home. The White House on Wednesday confirmed that the US was setting up a facility in Kenya for Americans to quarantine after Ebola exposure in the D
Read more: US Establishing Ebola Quarantine Center in KenyaThe World Health Organization has warned that the Ebola outbreak is outpacing response efforts and countries neighbouring the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are at high risk from the disease. “We are urgently scaling up operations, but at the moment the epidemic is outpacing us,” said the WHO’s
Read more: WHO: Ebola in DRC Outpacing Response EffortsThe World Health Organization has warned that the Ebola outbreak is outpacing response efforts and countries neighbouring the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are at high risk from the disease. “We are urgently scaling up operations, but at the moment the epidemic is outpacing us,” said the WHO’s
Read more: WHO: Ebola in DRC Surpassing Response, Neighbours at RiskCongolese authorities say that suspected Ebola cases have now passed 900 in the ongoing outbreak in the east of the country. The Congolese ministry of communication, in a post on X on Sunday, said there were 904 suspected cases and 119 suspected deaths. Authorities had previously announced more than
Read more: Ebola suspected cases in DR Congo top 900 amid attacks, shortages