The Courier & Advertiser (Fife Edition)
QUOTES OF THE DAY
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Germany are testing half a million people a week, yet we still haven’t hit the 10,000-a-day the Prime Minister promised. NHS staff are rightly asking if we’ve left it too late to buy the kits and chemicals we need, or whether our lab capacity is too overstretched after years of tight budgets.
Labour’s shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth calls for explanation on why UK’s Covid-19 testing lags behind other countries. “
Having recently gone through the process of contracting this coronavirus – luckily with relatively mild symptoms – I now find myself on the other side of the illness but still in no less a state of social distance and general isolation. As we are all learning, this is a strange, frustrating and often distressing experience when the presence of family and friends is no longer possible and the normal structures of life are suddenly removed. The Prince of Wales speaks about the experience of being without friends and family in his first comments since his coronavirus self-isolation ended.
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I have put myself through some pain during a very strange time for everyone, as long as it is for a good cause. If other people get inspired to do something like this, then good luck. I would recommend it, it’s not that bad.
Former international athlete James Campbell speaks after spending his 32nd birthday running a marathon in his sixmetre-long back garden, raising more than £17,000 for the NHS.