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As the second wave of the pandemic takes deep root across parts of the UK, thousands of NHS workers are struggling to recover from what they have already been through.

The NHS wants people who have recovered from coronavirus to donate their blood plasma. It’s part of a trial looking at whether it can be used to fight Covid-19. Fourteen new donation centres are opening in England over the next few months including in places such as Lancaster and Leeds. …

Disappearing Covid-19 app alerts cause alarm

Cases have risen by a quarter to more than 32,500 a day in England, says the Office for National Statistics

“Veklury is the first treatment for COVID-19 to receive FDA approval,” the FDA said in a statement.

Why does the biology of coronavirus mean it poses such a threat to human life?

The aim is to create an early warning system to detect local outbreaks before they spread.

NHS England’s report is based on a survey of 3,570 children and young people up to the age of 22 who were interviewed in 2017 and followed up online in July during the coronavirus pandemic.

Huawei’s P40, Mate 30 and Honor 30 series handsets run the Android operating system, but lack Google’s Play Store – among other services from the US tech giant – because of a trade ban imposed by the Trump administration.

A government adviser says factors like deprivation, rather than ethnicity, should be used to judge risk.