Cancer patients are being kept awake during operations to protect them from coronavirus, the Evening Standard can reveal.

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A new biography of Harry and Meghan will "go beyond the headlines" and "reveal unknown details" of the couple's life together.

A leading eye doctor and church pastor who had warned his congregation of the "serious" danger posed by Covid-19 has become the latest NHS worker to fall victim to the virus.

Extra funds were announced today to provide help for people fleeing domestic violence during the coronavirus restrictions.

Italians were today enjoying the chance to exercise in parks for the first time in eight weeks as their country took its first significant steps out of its coronavirus lockdown.

A veteran of the Second World War who celebrated victory in Europe with a three-day party in Burma says the lockdown commemorations for the 75th anniversary will still be a "great tribute" to those who lost their lives.

Thousands of firms today rushed to get "bounce back" loans of up to £50,000 to avoid going bust within weeks as the coronavirus crisis wreaked havoc in the economy.

Teenager's parents criticise Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab's comments on son's death as "misleading"

Police publish images of suspected thieves amid spate of stealing in northeastern United States

Care home workers say employers are playing "Russian roulette" with their lives as personal protective equipment (PPE) is withheld or rationed amid unclear guidance, according to a union.

A dating app is providing London bus drivers with free face bandanas, amid fears of a lack adequate personal protective equipment (PPE) for frontline transport staff.

A huge underground car park in the heart of the West End is to be converted into a £150 million subterranean healthcare and entertainment complex.

Stargazers can expect to see up to 40 meteors per hour blaze through the night sky before sunrise on Wednesday

There are "questions to be asked" about where coronavirus came from, Boris Johnson's spokesperson has said.

Military-style discipline will be needed from every individual to get the country safely back to work, the Defence Secretary said today as ministers started preparing to modify the two-metre social distancing rule.

Schools are installing hand-washing troughs in playgrounds and preparing to mark out two-metre lines to keep parents apart as they drop off their children in anticipation of the coronavirus lockdown ending.

Cumbria Police have apologised for an "ill-judged" tweet that suggested people should not buy plants or compost during the coronavirus lockdown.

A group calling themselves 'HS2 Rebellion' have blocked the entrance to a building site at Euston.

London's Nightingale hospital will be put "on standby" within days as a result of the capital passing the peak of coronavirus cases.

More than three million Britons have downloaded an app designed by researchers at King's College London to track the symptoms of coronavirus.

Updated figures for England come as authorities in Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland all announce additional Covid-19 deaths

Matt Hancock has urged people living on the Isle of Wight to download the coronavirus contact tracing app to "save lives" during the pandemic.

A former senior North Korean diplomat has apologised after saying Kim Jong-un was probably so ill he could not stand, days before he was seen at an event attended by hundreds of officials.

Selectively lifting lockdown restrictions in the UK risks "potential divisions between groups", an expert has said.

Nigel Farage has been visited by police officers who advised him not to breach lockdown restrictions after he travelled to Dover to report on migrants.

Urgent action is still needed to make it easier for vulnerable people to access supermarket delivery slots and other sources of supplies, Which? has warned.

New car sales were almost wiped out last month as the the number of registrations collapsed to their lowest level for 74 years.

Nearly 100 children who were being targeted online by child abusers were saved by police in London during the first four weeks of the lockdown, Scotland Yard revealed today.

Draft proposals for how to return to work safely have been leaked and they paint a very different picture of the workplace post lockdown.​

Just 50,000 commuters could board every 15 minutes if they had to keep two metres apart - when rush-hour usually sees 320,000 on board

An international basketball player who moved to London to escape Somalia's looming civil war has become one of the capital's latest victims of Covid-19.

Three doctors in Russia who raised concerns about the working conditions on the frontline of the coronavirus pandemic have fallen out of hospital windows over the last two weeks, it has been reported.

Spain's strict coronavirus lockdown has sent the unemployment rate to a near four-year high.

Nike has donated tens of thousands of trainers to frontline healthcare workers fighting the pandemic around the world.

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There were 5,890 coronavirus-related care home deaths involving Covid-19 registered up to April 24 in England and Wales, the Office for National Statistics said.

The coronavirus death toll in the UK has risen to more than 32,000 - and may now be the highest in Europe.

A man has been jailed after he viciously bit down on an officer's finger in a "sustained attack" to avoid being arrested.

California's governor has announced that the six-week lockdown of America's most populous state will be relaxed within days as the daily coronavirus death toll across the United States fell to its lowest level in a month.

Antibody tests at 98 per cent accuracy would put up to a quarter of population at risk of infection, government advisers have warned.

China has launched a newly designed spacecraft as part of its ambitious plan to build an orbiting space station.

Union bosses have written to Sadiq Khan to demand a reversal of Transport for London's "disgraceful" decision to deny free travel to London Underground's cleaners.

A police officer accused of murdering former Aston Villa star Dalian Atkinson is set to go ahead in September, despite the current uncertainty about court timetables due to coronavirus.

The father and son are still on the run

British airline to make drastic cut to staffing and end operations at Gatwick amid financial fallout from coronavirus pandemic

It's an agonising choice which no prime minister would ever want to have to make.

Boris Johnson's top scientist has defended the Government's battleplan against Covid-19 and said "you can't stop it".

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