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Life stars Alison Steadman, Adrian Lester and Peter Davison and features interwoven stories of a house divided into apartments, in Manchester

Bartlett said of the BBC One drama: “I wanted to write about isolation and its opposite – community, about how we want to be connected to other people, but at the same time , we often end up feeling alone or disconnected

« I lived in an apartment that was part of an old divided house

« You could hear intimate details about the lives of your neighbors, but when we passed down the hall we barely exchanged two words

And, he added that he also wanted to reflect « how amazing people can be in the face of the hardships and tragedies of life. In every household across the country there are some of the greatest stories happening every day « 

Life starts Tuesday at 9 p.m. on BBC One and will be available as a full set on BBC iPlayer

Londoners took to Oxford Circus for an ‘impromptu party’ on Friday evening as the second 10pm curfew propelled crowds into the streets Images posted on social media showed huge crowds dancing and bumping into each other to each other as the music blared, with seemingly no social distancing in sight

Patients who take a daily dose of vitamin D are less likely to suffer complications and die from coronavirus, new study in US says Vitamin was linked to higher levels of immune cells in the blood and much weaker inflammatory markets, scientists at Boston University School of Medicine found

Clashes erupted as a massive anti-lockdown protest in Trafalgar Square was closed by police after crowds ignored social distancing rules Thousands of maskless protesters took to central London on Saturday to a ‘we do not consent’ rally, despite calls from the police for people to respect coronavirus restrictions

On Wednesday, September 23, the Arizona Republic front page made the headlines that would have shocked readers just five years ago: « McCain Endorses Biden » Not John McCain, the famous Republican senator who served state for 31 years and reveled in frustrating President Donald Trump until his death from cancer in 2018 Instead, it was his widow Cindy McCain who urged fellow Republicans not to fear crossing party lines. « I think it’s a stab in the back, and I think it’s a shame, » says Lana Dorazio, outreach coordinator for the Great State Alliance anti-lockdown She meets friends outside a mega-church near Arizona’s capital Phoenix, where the president’s second son Eric Trump has just honored an in-person evangelistic gathering « I don’t know why she would choose this, other than she must have ulterior motives », continues Ms. Dorazio « She is no longer a Republican » This is a sign of the deep fractures that have been caused by the government of Arizona by mandate of M Trump But it’s also a sign of how quickly this most trusted of the Red States – the home of legendary arch-conservative Barry Goldwater, who has voted Republican in all but one election since 1952 – is moving blue, this which makes it a real battleground for 2020 « The Arizona joke was that if a Democrat wears Arizona, he doesn’t need Arizona, » says Dr. Mike O’Neil, a veteran Phoenix pollster « This is not true this year Arizona has a really viable possibility of being the state that puts a Democrat at the top »

Supporting workers in the age of Covid-19 is as much a question of emotion as of economy Losing a job reduces happiness as well as purchasing power

Recently reported Covid-19 cases are not rising as fast as projections presented by chief government scientists, Telegraph analysis shows On Monday, Chief Science Advisor Sir Patrick Vallance presented a scenario in which the number of new confirmed cases could reach nearly 50,000 per day by October 13 if it starts doubling every seven days Sir Patrick clarified that the scenario was « not a prediction » but an example of how the virus can spread when left unchecked It was based on the situation as of September 15, when 3,105 new cases have been reported across the UK Since the terrible warning, the UK has seen the biggest daily increase in infections detected since the start of the pandemic for two consecutive days, with 6,634 new cases reported on September 24 and 6,874 on September 25 If the number of new cases had doubled every seven days, the UK would have reported more than 8,000 cases per day by that time Telegraph analysis shows – at current rate – virus doubles between every nine and 14 days In a worst-case scenario, this would lead to over 32,000 new cases by October 13 At the lower end of the range mistake, if the virus doubles every 14 days, 18,300 new cases per day would be reported by the same date – less than half of government scientists’ projections The scan comes as infectious disease modeling expert Professor Graham Medley, warned there would be 100 coronavirus deaths per day in a few weeks « Treatments have improved, the way the virus is transmitted will be different, but it is nonetheless a dangerous virus and it will inevitably lead to deaths, » Professor Medley, who attends meetings of the Scientific Advisory Group for emergencies (Sage), told the BBC « At the level of 10,000 (cases) we are seeing now, that means in three or four weeks we are going to see 100 deaths a day » To prevent this process from escalating to again, we have to make sure that this transmission stops now, because this doubling time will continue The things we are doing now will not stop 100 people dying a day, but they will stop it from progressing much higher. ”He also said he had“ never heard ”of the 10pm curfew for the day. hospitality discussed at Sage meetings The number of newly reported daily cases remained relatively stable for a period of about a week in mid-September, hovering between 3,000 and 4,000, but has since started to increase more rapidly It is fueled by increases in the north, with the rate of new cases skyrocketing in Newcastle upon Tyne, South Tyneside and Burnley They saw the most significant increases in seven-day infection rates according to the latest data through September 21, of more than 92 cases per 100,000 population Rates of confirmed cases rose by more than 10 per 100,000 in 98 of England’s 316 local authorities (31%) When Sir Patrick and Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty made their warnings on Monday, they presented authorities’ data local until September 9, when 131 local authorities noted an increase of more than 10 cases per 100,000 While new confirmed cases paint a more accurate picture than at the start of the pandemic, with significantly increased testing capacity, this remains an underestimate.The latest data from the Office for National Statistics Infection Survey corroborates that the cases are currently increasing dramatically, with estimated new daily infections rising from an average of 3,200 in the week of September 5 to 6,000 the following week and 9,600 the week through September 19 « In recent weeks, there has been clear evidence of an increase in the number of people testing positive for Covid-19 across all age groups, with current rates highest in the 17 to 17 age group. 24 years old, « said the ONS And according to the Covid Symptom Study, developed by health sciences company ZOE and King’s College London, the expected number of people with the virus on September 24 was 161,301 – an increase of 56% compared to the previous week The study estimated that there were 17,444 new infections daily as of September 25 The team behind the study warned that cases were doubling every week in pockets of the country, especially in some of the urban centers where local Covid restrictions have been put in place Tim Spector, professor of genetic epidemiology at King’s College London who is leading the research, said: ‘The number of cases in the UK continues to rise at an alarming rate as we see the numbers doubling every week across the country. country, in particular we are worried places like London and other big cities like Manchester, Belfast and Glasgow where cases are increasing and the R-value is around 14 « 

It had started to feel that the pandemic was over in Sweden, that we would be spared the resurgence of infection seen elsewhere in Europe.Then on Tuesday a slight increase in cases and the prospect of targeted local restrictions came as a unpleasant reminder That and being tossed out of the cafe near the Skåne coast where I was working last Saturday « Do you have a cold? » Asked the man behind the counter « Because the family that was here, they said you were coughing » I offered to leave, hoping it wouldn’t be necessary But it was « I’m sorry, corona weather, but yes that would be better » For me it was important mainly due to its unusualness Since the pandemic struck in mid-March, Sweden has remained so calm, and its restrictions have been so gentle, that it has often felt like a crisis happening elsewhere Watching the anger, blame, hysteria and panic in the UK, the calm here felt surreal, and you have to be thankful The episode also added to my firsthand evidence that the Swedes largely continue to adhere to the public health agency’s recommendations – keep your distance, maintain good hygiene, and stay home when you are sick (I guess I could add, although you don’t a recommendation, a report on other clients who don’t) Even as Swedish state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell on Tuesday and Thursday presented his agency’s new strategy of highly targeted local restrictions to quickly end outbreaks, he reiterated the importance of setting restrictions at the national level that are sufficient but light enough to be kept in place for the long term

« There is a lot of confusion, frustration, fear of not being able to have food »

The next pandemic is on its way Coronavirus must help us prepare for it Scientists estimate we will face a health emergency at least once every five years Our new initiative seeks a better response Sally Davies is a former doctor -chief for England

More than 600,000 people in South Sudan have been affected by flooding, the United Nations reported on September 24“Entire communities have fled to higher lands to escape the rising waters,” said UN humanitarian coordinator in South Sudan, Alain Noudéhou. “The number of people affected will continue to increase in the weeks to come, and many women and children who had previously been displaced by subnational violence are again displaced“The country is still recovering from a civil war that began in 2013, and the UN says more than $ 80 million is needed to respond to the floods These images were taken by the World Food Program (WFP) from 16 to September 18 in Bor Town, Jonglei State in South Sudan The state is one of many countries flooded after heavy rains that caused the White Nile to overflow Neighboring Sudan was also ravaged by flooding this year According to the Sudanese government, homes of nearly 830,000 people were damaged or destroyed, and more than 120 died from the floods Credit: PAM via Storyful

Ministers under pressure to explain the ‘extraordinary’ failure – affecting testing in NHS hospitals and laboratories – as Wales escapes problems

A weekday afternoon in downtown Leeds and an angry speaker tells about 40 onlookers the coronavirus is a scam imagined by a dark cabal of global elites seeking to control the rest of us « This is not a conspiracy theory, » she shouts to applause People here are anti-lockdown, anti-mask and anti-vaccine but most importantly anti- (deep breathing) the big pharma complex finance-media-science-tech-industrial who they say created or exaggerated coronavirus in an attempt to make the rich richer, take away freedoms from the rest of us, and create a single and supreme world government

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