Here’s a quick summary of what has happened around the world over the last 24 hours, brought to you exclusively by British Herald.
Keir Starmer has been elected as Britain’s main opposition Labour Party’s leader pledging to end years of bitter infighting. They intend to work alongside Boris Johnson’s Conservative government to contain the coronavirus pandemic.
Speaking of PM Johnson, his pregnant fiance Carrie Symonds has spent the past week in bed with coronavirus symptoms. However, after seven days of rest, she felt stronger and was on the mend.
The UK’s hospital death toll from the coronavirus rose by 20% to 4,313. British Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove extended his thoughts to the family of the 5-year-old child who passed away in hospital after coronavirus infection.
Light at the end of the tunnel, a week or two more would be needed before Britain’s social distancing measures begin to translate as lower hospitalisation rates. However, there has been some extent of plateauing in London in the past few days, according to NHS England Medical Director Stephen Powis.
A conspiracy theory that links 5G mobile telecommunications masts to the spread of the novel coronavirus is dangerous fake news and completely false, Britain said after masts in several parts of the country were torched.
When asked by a reporter about the so called “theory” that 5G telecommunications masts could play a role in the spread of the disease, British Cabinet Officer Minister Michael Gove said: “That is just nonsense, dangerous nonsense as well.”
Mobile phone masts have in recent days been vandalised and telecoms staff abused in Birmingham in central England and Merseyside in northern England, damaging connectivity at a time when people are relying on it more than ever.
An arson attack at a tower in Birmingham owned by BT, Britain’s biggest telecoms company, caused significant damage. It provided 2G, 3G and 4G services to thousands of people, but did not have 5G capability, the company said.
NHS England’s national medical director, Stephen Powis, said the 5G conspiracy idea was fake news with no scientific backing that risked damaging the emergency response to the outbreak.
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