🔴 EXCLUSIVE: A Telegraph investigation finds that medical treatment was withheld from people with learning disabilities during the pandemic telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/06/1…
🔴 Patients admitted to hospital with Covid-19 were not given potentially life-saving treatment because of their conditions, The Telegraph can disclose telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/06/1…
➡️The learning disability charity Mencap said they were aware of cases where “treatment was withheld” and this led to the patient “dying prematurely”
🔴 Office for National Statistics figures from last year show that nearly six out of every 10 people who died with coronavirus in England were disabled
🚨Boris Johnson is to delay the easing of lockdown as Covid cases surge
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The PM says the Delta variant is "spreading faster than the third wave predicted" in the recovery roadmap.
"We can give the NHS a few more crucial weeks to get those few remaining jabs into the arms of those who need them...I think it is sensible to wait just a little longer"
"To give the NHS that extra time we will hold off step 4 openings until July 19, except for weddings that can still go ahead with more than 30 guests...and we will continue to pilot events such as Euro 2020 and some theatrical performances," Johnson says
🔴The @Telegraph travelled across Xinjiang to investigate the state-led cultural eradication programme and document the current state of detention centres, where researchers and the UN estimate over 1M Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other ethnic Muslim minorities have been detained
Iron bars that covered windows of the many buildings at one detention facility had been stripped.
❌Workers had begun removing layers of fortification, including barbed wire and a perimeter fence.
Inside, however, groups of detainees could be heard shouting
👶 Around 700,000 babies were born in Britain in the last year
Their first interactions with other people have been largely behind a mask.
➡️ How will a year of staying at home and social distancing impact this generation’s development? telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness…
👶“Our first child saw hundreds of people in her first six months. Our second, who was born last May, probably saw less than 20,” says Atalanta Hicks Beach.
🗣️"When we finally took her to meet another baby in the park, she was so happy. It was almost like she was high"
👶Hannah Rock’s secondborn son Abe has never known a world without social distancing.
He’s missed all the rhyme times and playgroups his brother enjoyed.
🗣️"There was a period where he would be hysterical if we took him inside a building that wasn’t his home,” says Hannah
📈 The raw data does not look good. Cases of the delta variant have been growing exponentially from a low base since early May, and for the past seven days have averaged about 5,000 new cases a day
💉 Cases, are only a worry if they lead to hospitalisations – and this time around we have vaccines to protect us.
📊 But the latest Public Health England data put the vaccine's effectiveness against symptomatic disease at 33 per cent after one dose and 81 per cent after two