'A sense of impending doom': NHS doctors on what it's like to be on the Covid-19 frontline
"We are used to dealing with illness and death", Dr Sonia Adesara says, "what we're not used to dealing with is so much of it".
She is one of the four NHS frontline staff who spoke of their daily struggle against a virus which is ripping its way through the country.
For some, it is an impending sense of doom felt in their intensive care units (ICU), packed with patients struggling to breathe. For others, it's the tears shed on the way home at the end of a shift, or the anger and frustration aimed at those who deny the severity of the disease.
But there is a common denominator: no one was mentally prepared to deal with the sheer volume of ill patients for such an extended period of time.
As a patient is being admitted to hospital with coronavirus “every thirty seconds”, according to the chief executive of NHS England and the fatigue sets in after nearly a year of battling Covid-19, NHS frontline staff give an insight of what is going through their minds inside the ICU.
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January 18, 2021
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Australian Open tennis players forced to train in their hotel rooms during quarantine
Dozens of tennis stars are stuck in hotel quarantine ahead of the Australian Open after positive coronavirus cases on their flight.
Some of the players who entered the Australian Open have shared videos on social media showing how they are trying to keep up with their training while self-isolating.
From running 5km inside their hotel room, to practising their swing against a wall, these players have found a way to make the most out of their self-isolation.
Watch the video above to see how they've done it.
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January 18, 2021
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Migrant caravan clashes with Guatemalan police on way to Mexico and US
Guatemalan soldiers clashed with migrants from Honduras on Sunday after part of a caravan of as many as 9,000 people was held by authorities near where it had entered the country.
The soldiers, many wearing helmets and wielding shields and sticks, formed ranks across a highway to block the procession which was seeking to reach the US.
The latest clashes come after two groups of more than 3,000 Honduran migrants each pushed their way into Guatemala without registering on Friday night.
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January 18, 2021
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Huge security measures in place ahead of Joe Biden's inauguration
Members of the National Guard, Secret Services and Metropolitan Police have been stationed in Washington DC to secure the area near the Capitol for possible protests ahead of US president-elect Joe Biden's inauguration.
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January 17, 2021
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Moment Alexei Navalny detained in airport after returning to Russia
This is the moment Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny is detained upon landing at Moscow's Vnukovo airport.
Russia's prison service said he was arrested for multiple violations of parole and terms of a suspended prison sentence and would be held in custody until a court makes a decision in his case.
Navalny was poisoined last August with nerve agent, and had been recovering in Berlin.
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January 17, 2021
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Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny boards plane for Russia
Leading Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny boarded a plane at Berlin airport on Sunday to return to Russia after recovering in Germany from his poisoning by a nerve agent in August.
He was arrested upon arrival in Russia.
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January 17, 2021
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Aftermath of fatal attack on female judges in Afghanistan
Unknown gunmen shot and killed two female judges in Kabul on Sunday as they travelled to work. Police say no-one has claimed responsibility for the early morning ambush that also saw their driver wounded.
A spokesman for the Taliban said its fighters were not involved.
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January 17, 2021
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Uganda election: Bobi Wine campaign coordinator claims police attack
The campaign coordinator for Uganda's opposition leader Bobi Wine claimed he was beaten and tortured by police Sunday.
Andrew Natumanya made the allegations and showed his injuries a day after Uganda's longtime leader President Yoweri Museveni was declared winner of the country's presidential election, which the opposition has dismissed as fraud.
His leading challenger Bobi Wine, who's real name is Robert Kyagulanyi, has been under house arrest for several days.
Natamunya said he was abducted, beaten and electrocuted by forces loyal to the president and now his "whole entire body keeps shaking" when he tries to hold something.
President Yoweri Museveni won a sixth five-year term, extending his rule to four decades, according to official results announced Saturday.
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January 17, 2021
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Chopper's Politics Podcast: EU Ambassador to the UK and the Loneliness Minister
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The first ever EU Ambassador to the UK, João Vale de Almeida, joins Christopher Hope on this week's Chopper's Politics to talk about the new 'special relationship', how he's teaching himself why people might have voted Brexit, and reveals his past life and friendship with a certain tousle-haired Prime Minister...
Plus the Minister for Loneliness, Baroness Barran, on why we shouldn't forget about young people when talking about loneliness and how she recommends volunteering to those feeling isolated.
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January 17, 2021
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Troops pour into Washington DC as capital braces for unrest ahead of Joe Biden's inauguration
Security continued to be strengthened around Washington, D.C. on Saturday as tensions run high of possible threats ahead of the January 20 inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden.
Around the White House, multiple roads have been closed while business tenants have boarded up their shops. All the roads leading to the inauguration venue are guarded by federal law enforcement officers, police and vehicles from the National Guard. Parking has been prohibited on the roads from Saturday night to Jan. 23.
From Saturday, people must pass through strict security checks when heading to Pennsylvania Avenue, a street linking the White House and the Capitol, as well as the venue where the inauguration will take place.
The Capitol building, which used to be a public area, is also surrounded by security fencing with police officers on duty to keep people away.
The intense security presence has made some residents in the nation's capital like Shelly Miles, who has lived here for 30 years, afraid and sad.
"This sorrow and this tragedy, and we never, we the United States can never allow this to happen again. It's the biggest security threat, internal domestic security threat we've ever had since our Civil War. Of course, I think that that is a huge security threat," she said.
More than 25,000 Guard are due in the city by early next week as concerns about violence at state capitals has grown.
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January 17, 2021
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Every adult to receive first vaccine dose by September, says Raab
The Government hopes to have offered every adult a first dose of a coronavirus vaccine by September, Mr Raab said.
"We think we've got the capacity to deliver it, obviously if it can be done more swiftly than that, then that's a bonus."
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January 17, 2021
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'Kill him with his own gun': Police recount facing the mob in Capitol riot
Washington DC police officers recalled their experiences of trying to hold off the violent mob who breached the U.S. Capitol during the deadly insurrection last week.
Officer Daniel Hodges, who was caught in between security doors as Trump loyalists tried to push through, said he thought he was going to die.
Officer Mike Fanone said he heard rioters shout "kill him with his own gun", as they assaulted him.
The Capitol was overrun on January 6 when the mob, armed with metal pipes, pepper spray and other weapons, pushed past the thin police line and soon broke into the building.
Five people died in the mayhem, which came the day Congress was meeting to vote to affirm President-elect Joe Biden’s electoral win.
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January 17, 2021
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'It isn't a problem': France begins 6pm curfew in bid to curb coronavirus infections
It was time to close shop early and head home in France on Saturday evening (January 16) as a new 6pm curfew intended to help stem the spread of coronavirus infections, especially a more infectious variant, came into effect.
The virus has killed 70,000 people in France, the seventh-highest toll in the world and the government is particularly worried by the more transmissible variant first detected in Britain, which now accounts for about 1% of new cases.
The curfew was brought forward two hours to 6pm and runs until 6am. In addition, from Monday (January 18), anyone travelling to France from outside the European Union will have to show a negative COVID-19 test and self-isolate for a week upon arrival.
Businesses had sought to mitigate from potential losses with some shops opening as early as 7.30am on Saturday. While snow showers hit large parts of the country, people adjusted to the new hours to make sure streets were empty by early evening.
"The weekend is less problematic but during the week people leave the office around 6pm and it's a popular time to get glasses," Mickael Levy, 45, founder of Win Optic, told Reuters TV.
The number of daily infections has hit a plateau at around 20,000, but the number of people entering hospitals and in particular intensive care units is still rising steadily.
The government has also been criticised for the slow pace of the country's vaccine rollout.
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January 16, 2021
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Salisbury Cathedral turned into 'beautiful' vaccine centre
Salisbury Cathedral, Wiltshire, has been transformed into a centre for people to receive an injection of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine.
The Dean of Salisbury Nick Papadopulos has said he is 'overjoyed' that his cathedral is being used as a Covid-19 vaccination centre.
"I doubt anyone is having a jab in surroundings more beautiful than this."
Graham Turner, a Chaplain at Salisbury Cathedral and aged 88, said: "Marvelous order of music and amazingly nice people. Just a treat in every way."
A programme of music on the cathedral’s famous Father Willis organ had been performed throughout the day by David Halls, director of music, and John Challenger, assistant director of music.
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January 16, 2021
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Bobi Wine says military raided home as he rejects 'rigged' Uganda election results
Soldiers jumped over the fence and briefly surrounded the home of opposition leader Bobi Wine outside of the capital Kampala on Friday, hours after the 38-year-old singer-turned-lawmaker rejected the results of a presidential election due to fraud.
Early results from around a third of polling stations showed longtime president Yoweri Museveni largely leading with 65 per cent of the vote while Bobi Wine had 27 per cent, according to the electoral commission.
But the challenger, whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi, rejected the results as a "complete sham" and accused authorities of stuffing ballots, preventing people from voting and intimidating others.
"Countrymen and women, I am very confident that we have defeated the dictator. The people of Uganda will and must reject the blatant suppression of their will and their voice," Mr Wine told reporters at his home on Friday morning.
"We are putting every legal, every constitutional and every non-violent option on the table," he told Reuters.
Polling agents from his party, the National Unity Platform (NUP), were beaten and chased away in parts of northern and western Uganda, he added.
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January 16, 2021
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UK doctors warn Covid-19 patients being admitted to hospital getting younger and sicker
UK doctors are warning that the number of coronavirus patients being admitted to hospitals is continuing to rise, British broadcaster Sky reported on Saturday.
At a purpose-built emergency ward erected last year after the peak of the spring wave at The Royal Surrey County Hospital on Friday, Dr Carlo Arrigo, Clinical Director said the number of patients doubled during the week after Christmas and is staying there.
Dr John de Vos, Lead COVID-19 consultant, said: "It's relentless really, the admissions come fast and they come all the time."
England's chief medical officer Chris Witty has said the number of patients being admitted to hospital with coronavirus will peak within the next 10 days, with the peak in deaths following later.
Dr De Vos also said the patients are "sicker now than they were in the first wave" as well as being younger.
Some of his patients, he says, were legally at gathering over the Christmas period, causing them guilt as well as illness.
David Parrott, a 19-year-old COVID-19 patient at a London hospital who had never previously had serious medical issues, said "it shows that anyone can get it."
Parrott has been on oxygen for the entirety of his stay at hospital.
"All of a sudden I can be like this in a bed in a hospital, stricken down, not being able to do anything because of this virus," he said.
The government on Friday reported 55,761 more confirmed infections and the deaths of another 1,280 people within 28 days of testing positive for the virus.
The daily update brought the U.K.'s overall death toll to 87,295, the highest in Europe and the fifth-highest in the world.
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January 16, 2021
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Chaos in Manaus: Brazil's hospitals 'run out of oxygen' for Covid patients as hundreds wait for beds
The Brazilian city of Manaus was facing an extreme shortage of essential hospital supplies and bed space on Friday amid a new spurt of coronavirus cases, prompting two army planes to fly over 18 tons of oxygen cylinders as an emergency stopgap.
On Thursday, several medical facilities across the Amazonas state capital city – home to more than 2 million people - reported they had run out of oxygen cylinders to ventilate patients.
Industrial gas company White Martins, the largest supplier of oxygen to the city's hospitals, said in a statement on Thursday that demand had almost tripled in comparison to Manaus' first coronavirus wave in mid-2020.
Last May, as the city's morgues overflowed with coronavirus victims, Manaus consumed a maximum of 30,000 cubic metres of oxygen per day. Now, that demand has risen to over 70,000 cubic metres.
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January 16, 2021
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Pfizer will 'catch up' says Ursula von der Leyen following delays to vaccine deliveries
European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen reacts after Pfizer confirmed it will temporarily reduce deliveries to Europe of its Covid-19 vaccine while it upgrades production capacity to two billion doses per year.
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January 16, 2021
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Coronavirus: Joe Biden pledges to vaccinate 100 million people in his first 100 days
President-elect Joe Biden plans to deliver on his pledge to vaccinate 100 million people in his first 100 days.
"Five things to turn frustration into motivation, five things to help us meet our goal of 100 million shots by the end of our first 100 days in office," said Biden.
"Some wonder if we're reaching too far for that goal. Is it achievable? It's a legitimate question to ask. Let me be clear. I'm convinced we can get it done," he added.
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January 16, 2021
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Duke and Duchess of Cambridge discuss mental health and bereavement with frontline workers
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge check in on frontline staff working during the coronavirus pandemic.
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January 16, 2021
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