As schools across the world have closed, parents up and down the country face the task of keeping their children healthy, happy and learning at home. Schools are now only open to children of key workers and those who are vulnerable, in a bid to help stop the spread of the virus.Continue Reading
Folding@Home is a fantastic crowd-sourced computing project that has been helping to find cures for cancer, Alzheimer’s, and Ebola for years. But now it’s being used to fight the coronavirus pandemic, and you can help by donating your PC’s power. All you need to do to take part is download andContinue Reading
china has been frantically trying to contain coronavirus for several months, but it is secretly waging another fight during the crisis – with the country’s journalists. China’s journalists say it all started with the death of Dr Li Wenliang – a whistleblower whose attempt to warn the country about the coronavirus outbreak was silencedContinue Reading
In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, which has so far claimed the lives of 335 people in the UK, the prime minister, Boris Johnson, has imposed a three-week nationwide lockdown. The prime minister has instructed British households to stay at home except for a strictly limited set of reasons, with police having powers toContinue Reading
We’ve seen the headlines, the photos and videos. Lines of panicked buyers that snake across massive carparks. Bare shelves and buying restrictions on everything from toilet paper to cleaning supplies and long life milk. Elderly people waiting nervously for early opening hours and supermarket executives urging us not to panic.Continue Reading
HP pledged to use its 3D printing teams to make much-needed hospital supplies to help stop the spread of the coronavirus, officially known as COVID-19. The tech company has set up a dedicated website for healthcare workers to find a 3D printing partner to create much-needed medical supplies, equipment, or devices. Designs includeContinue Reading
Boris Johnson has told the public that they should now be working from home where possible in a bid to contain the ongoing coronavirus outbreak. Companies including Google, JP Morgan and Twitter have released Covid-19 contingency plans to staff that include compulsory working from home. It is hoped that keeping employees further apart fromContinue Reading
With so many of us staying home and practicing social distancing due to the global pandemic of coronavirus, officially called COVID-19, people are thinking about how to stay sane and achieve some goals while stuck in self-isolation. To help with this, retired Canadian astronaut and national treasure Chris Hadfield has madeContinue Reading
After studying 138 patients, scientists at the Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University have been able to produce a day-by-day breakdown of the typical symptoms of coronavirus Coronavirus is known to have several nasty symptoms, ranging from a fever to breathing difficulties. However, COVID-19 also shares many characteristics with the commonContinue Reading
As the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the UK continues to rise, a nutritional expert has shared their top tips for boosting your immune system amid the outbreak Around 590 people have tested positive for coronavirus so far in the UK, and a doctor recently warned that we should all expectContinue Reading