A further 6.9 million American job losses have been due to the unavailability of childcare.Clown duo Mooky and Mr Boo were among those returning to the ring after spending lockdown perfecting their act at home by rehearsing across their garden fence and keeping two metres apart.Trapeze artistes, juggling acts and hand-balancing performers have also been entertaining socially distanced audience members, who must wear face coverings. We all want to matter. “We told them ‘come to Greece’ and Greece has shut down.”The country has so far recorded 6,862 cases of the virus and 227 deaths, with cases rising by 251 and two new deaths logged in the last 24 hours.Some students were resorting to legal action in an attempt to get their downgrades reversed through the courts, following a chaotic results day in the absence of an exam season because of the coronavirus pandemic.The exams regulator Ofqual issued guidance on Saturday setting out the criteria for students to make appeals on the basis of their mock exam results, The Conservative MP Robert Halfon, who chairs the Commons Education Committee, said the regulator's actions were "unacceptable".
This makes no sense.Of late, I’ve been more positive than most about prospects for the UK economy, taking the view that a relatively strong, V-shaped recovery is still eminently possible. The UK recorded a further 1,040 cases and five deaths across all settings.France is pushing for wider use of face masks and tighter protections for migrant workers and in slaughterhouses after recording its highest one-day rise in coronavirus cases since May, but the country is The cataclysmic state of the UK economy was confirmed in last week’s quarterly GDP figures from the Office for National Statistics. À partir de 35,00 EUR Given that the infection rate in some areas of the UK is higher, shouldn’t we be quarantining those who have been there when they move around the country too?Some of the local lockdown rules are equally barmy.
"We must start immediately with change and quickly hold early parliamentary elections without the distraction of discussing a new election law and to form a new government. But it will do this autumn, when the furlough scheme is unwound. No ifs, no buts, no equivocation,” Sir Keir wrote in the Mail on Sunday .Ofqual said it is "reviewing" guidance it published earlier on Saturday on how to appeal A-level and GCSE grades using mock exam results.The regulator previously said grades from mock exams and coursework could be used to challenge results downgraded under Ofqual's standardisation process. They will put him forward and the argument will be made that there are people who have got into the Lords who have equally blemished records. In terms of Quality-Adjusted Life Years (QALYs), it concluded, lockdown will eventually cost more life-years than the disease itself (although it argued that Covid-19 would have killed far more people had we not had lockdown).If you think the past ten years were an age of ‘austerity’, it is nothing compared with what is coming. C'est mon premier Vlog … Click here to embed
It might have been nice to have been told that before. Assemblies and communal activities, such as prayer, will be banned. And it’s why Rosh Mahtani, founder of jewellery brand Alighieri, decided to proceed with opening her first, Italian piazza-themed pop-up shop this month.Since the nation heaved a collective sigh of relief, and began to enjoy pubs and restaurants again, I have returned to wandering the aisles of Waitrose, killing time before I have to return to an empty flat, with only Netflix for company.During the nationwide lockdown, a lot of us experienced isolation – often for the first time.
But no-one should fool themselves into thinking that things are so bad that they can’t get any worse.The most bizarre statistic this week has been the unemployment figure which, at 3.9 per cent, is still stuck near a 45 year low.