Doctors, nurses, fundraisers and volunteers who have made outstanding contributions to the UK’s coronavirus response will be recognised in the 2020 Queen’s Birthday Honours list on Saturday 10 October. The list, which was due to be published in June, was postponed in order to consider nominations for people playing crucial roles during the first months of the COVID-19 effort. Now, following approval from Her Majesty … Continue reading Covid-19 Honours
New figures out today (August 25) show that restaurants have claimed more than 64 million discounted meals as Eat Out to Help Out enters its fourth week. The overall figure is set to be more as not all registered businesses have claimed back yet. This continues the upward trend in the scheme’s popularity, with 10.5 million meals claimed for in the first week, growing to … Continue reading Diners order more than 64 million meals through Eat Out to Help Out scheme
Action for Happiness has designated this month as Altrusic August and altruism means being concerned for the welfare and happiness of others. According to Action for Happiness – a movement wanting to create a more caring society – “altruism is vital for the human race to survive and thrive; and each of our lives is supported by countless kind acts from other people. “Yet in … Continue reading Spread a little happiness
A nationwide effort led by Public Health England (PHE) to solve the mystery of whether people who had COVID-19 can get infected again hit a key recruitment milestone today, Wednesday 19 August 2020. 10,000 health workers from across the NHS have now signed up to take part in PHE’s ‘SIREN’ (SARS-CoV-2 Immunity & REinfection EvaluatioN) study, which is exploring whether specific COVID-19 antibodies provide immunity. Scientists … Continue reading 10,000 people now signed up to Covid-19 immunity study
Smokefree Sefton is supporting the Today is the Day campaign which aims to encourage more people to join the thousands who have already quit smoking in response to health concerns about Covid-19. Smokers are likely to be more vulnerable to COVID 19 for multiple reasons including: the act of smoking means that fingers are in contact with the lips which increases the risk of transmitting … Continue reading Make ‘Today the Day’ your time to quit smoking
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