People wearing masks in Solihull town centre (Image: Darren Quinton/Birmingham Live) By Jane Haynes Birmingham’s rate of infection has gone up to more than 62 in a dramatic surge that means tough new restrictions could be imminent. An alarming rise in coronavirus infections in Birmingham means local leaders are now facing a battle to prevent

Wodensborough Ormiston Academy, Wednesbury (Image: Google) Hundreds of children are being forced to self-isolate after coronavirus cases were confirmed in schools across Birmingham. Schools across the region have been hit by positive coronavirus test results, leading to pupils being told to stay at home. Children at a school in Sandwell, as well as Hall Green,

People enjoying the Eat Out to Help Out scheme in London (file photo) (Image: James Veysey/REX/Shutterstock) By Dan Bloom Political Editor The Daily Mirror The surge in cases over the last few days is worst in ‘affluent’ under-25s, Matt Hancock said – prompting new fears for the return of universities this month. Britain’s sharp rise

Indian homeless people stand in queue to receive free food distributed by the Sikh community near a railway station in Gauhati, India, Sunday, Sept. 6, 2020. India’s coronavirus cases have crossed 4 million, leading the world in new infections and deepening misery in the country’s vast hinterlands where surges have crippled the underfunded health care

Photo: Credit Birmingham Mail Mum claims crowds of parents at Ninestiles School, Acocks Green, were not properly social distancing An angry mum has accused parents of failing to follow social distancing rules at a Birmingham school as kids returned to classes. A mobile phone clip (see above) shows eager mums and dads lining the entrance

PA Screen grab of Baroness Dido Harding, executive chair of NHS Test and Trace, during a media briefing in Downing Street By Paul Waugh New figures come amid moves to expand the system to cope with mass testing. The government’s flagship NHS Test and Trace programme is facing fresh criticism after it posted its worst

Tables and chairs spaced for physical distancing in a classroom as the Charles Dickens primary school in London prepares to safely welcome back pupils in September. Photograph: Aaron Chown/PA Questions answered on what the new lockdown ‘tiers’ mean for teaching in schools and colleges Q: According to the government’s guidance issued on Friday evening for

Photo: Credit Associated Press Michael Varaklas. PARIS — Not all French classrooms can safely reopen Tuesday, the education minister acknowledged Sunday, amid a persistent rise in coronavirus infections that is threatening the government’s push to get France’s 12.9 million schoolchildren back in class. It’s being decided by a day-by-day analysis based on the health situation

PA MEDIA Universities Second Wave By Chris York One million students will move around the UK next month. Universities become ground zero for a second wave of coronavirus unless they avoid face-to-face teaching, academics have warned. The movement of an expected one million students around Britain as they return to universities in the next month

© Provided by The Independent By Andrew Woodcock As many as 85,000 people could die in the UK in a second wave of coronavirus this winter, a leaked scientific paper prepared for the government has suggested. The paper by the prime minister’s Scientific Advisory Group on Emergencies (Sage), seen by BBC2’s Newsnight, said that some