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COVID-19: Scottish Government Information
Workforce
Nurse shortage causes Nightingale hospital to turn away patients – The Guardian
Health & NHS
- Family members can visit loved ones close to death, Health Secretary Jeane Freeman clarifies – The Courier
- Pandemic Sends England & Wales Death Toll to Record High – Bloomberg
- New Scots care home residents to be tested for coronavirus after government U-turn – Daily Record
- Coronavirus in Scotland: spread was wider than predicted, research suggests – The Times
- Coronavirus in Scotland: Nervous wait at £43m Louisa Jordan field hospital – The Times
- Coronavirus in Scotland: testing at care homes increased after outcry – The Times
- Government ‘absolutely’ stands by 100,000 coronavirus testing target by end of April – a day after only 19,000 carried out – The Independent
- Coronavirus: London’s Nightingale hospital discharges first patients – BBC News
- Coronavirus: PPE to be delivered to more than 1,000 care homes – BBC News
- Doctors hit out at plans to open part of new Edinburgh hospital during coronavirus outbreak – Edinburgh News
- Three-week old baby believed to be Scotland’s youngest Covid-19 patient discharged from hospital – Daily Record
- We made right choice in ventilator race, says UK consortium head – The Guardian
Wellbeing
- Six more NHS workers die from coronavirus as medic and carer death toll passes 100 – Metro News
- Two fifths of doctors suffering burnout or depression during COVID-19 outbreak – GPonline
- RAF plane carrying ‘delayed’ PPE equipment for NHS staff lands in UK – HeraldScotland
Health & Politics
- Coronavirus: Questions over decisions made at start of outbreak – BBC News
- Downing Street defends Hancock as blame game starts over PPE shortages – The Guardian
- Matt Hancock forced to deny ‘political’ opt-out from EU ventilators – The Guardian
- Hancock: UK human trials for coronavirus vaccine to begin on Thursday – video – The Guardian
- Coronavirus in Scotland: SNP MSP says Covid-19 could have ‘positive impact’ – HeraldScotland
- Coronavirus in Scotland: Sturgeon ‘cautiously optimistic’ that NHS can cope – BBC News
- Coronavirus: Government facing fresh questions over EU equipment scheme – BBC News
- Emma Harper MSP on her return to the NHS – Holyrood
International
- Earliest coronavirus deaths in United States occurred weeks earlier than previously thought in Santa Clara County – The Washington Post
- India coronavirus: Rapid testing paused over China kit issues – BBC News
- Why Nigeria may record explosion of COVID-19 cases – The Guardian Nigeria News
Public Health
Health and Science/Technology
- Coronavirus: people in their 60s at higher risk too, say scientists – The Guardian
- Coronavirus: UK ‘throwing everything’ at developing vaccine – BBC News
- FactCheck: are ethnic minority coronavirus patients more likely to die? – Channel 4 News
- Low cost emergency ventilator to tackle coronavirus designed by Imperial team – Imperial College London
- Coronavirus: Facebook launches UK Covid-19 symptom survey – BBC News
Opinion & Letters
- ‘I have been an infectious disease specialist for 30 years. I have never seen a virus like Covid-19′ – Irish Times
- Coronavirus crisis is a turning point for the NHS – for good or bad we just don’t know yet – The Conversation
- Better than flattening the coronavirus curve is crunching it, as New Zealand is showing – The Guardian