 | | | | A panel set up by Royal Caribbean Group and Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd said on Monday it had submitted a report to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) detailing health and safety protocols, hoping to set sail again after a long halt due to the COVID-19 pandemic. | | | | | | Britain will face an exponentially growing death rate from COVID-19 within weeks unless Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government moves urgently to halt a rapidly spreading second wave of the outbreak, the country's senior medics said on Monday. | | | | | | British Health Secretary Matt Hancock said on Monday that he wanted schools to remain open and avoid a return to mass home schooling, as the government was considering new measures to curb the spread of COVID-19. | | | | | | There will be more hospitalisations and deaths as COVID-19 spreads, the British government's Chief Scientific Adviser Patrick Vallance said on Monday. | | | | | | British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is "fighting fit" and "full of beans" after having been hospitalised with COVID-19 earlier this year, health minister Matt Hancock said on Monday. | | | | | | COVID-19 is a six-month problem that Britain has to deal with collectively as the country enters colder seasons which help viruses and before science can "ride to our rescue," the government's chief medical officer said on Monday. | | | | | | Britain faces six months of COVID-19 restrictions and needs to take action to avoid exponential growth in cases and deaths, top medical adviser Chris Whitty and top science adviser Patrick Vallance said on Monday at a briefing. | | | | | | Coronavirus infections slowed in Australia and New Zealand, while Britain said it was at a "tipping point" on COVID-19 as European countries mulled tightening restrictions to curb a sharp resurgence in cases. | | | | | | If the spread of COVID-19 in Britain continues on its current trajectory, direct deaths from the virus will continue to rise, potentially exponentially, the government's chief medical adviser said on Monday. | | | | | | The COVID epidemic in Britain is doubling roughly every seven days and if it continues to do so there would be about 50,000 new cases per day by the middle of October, the government's Chief Scientific Adviser Patrick Vallance said on Monday. | | | | | | Here's what you need to know about the coronavirus right now: | | | | | |
