Health
Fact check, Health
Claim that UK is meeting its Covid-19 testing target is Mostly False
Health secretary Matt Hancock claimed on Radio 4 that the UK government was meeting its target to conduct 100,000 tests per day.
Fact check, Health
Claim that the first person to receive the Covid-19 trial vaccine has died is False
Ferret Fact Service looks at a claim that the first person who participated in the Oxford University vaccine trial has died.
Health, Society
Scottish NHS charities get £525,000 boost from ‘amazing’ covid-19 appeal
Health, Society
Supermarket slammed as rural communities hit by weeks of food shortages
Asylum, Health, Housing and homelessness, Human rights
Asylum seekers’ lives ‘put at risk’ by decision to move them to hotels
Environment, Health
Shellfish businesses offered funding to cope with coronavirus crisis
Shellfish businesses across Scotland have been offered emergency financial help by ministers on the eve of a report by The Ferret revealing the crisis facing prawn and scallop fishermen.
Environment, Health
Birds of prey ‘in danger’ during coronavirus lockdown
Thousands of sites used by birds of prey will go unmonitored for the first time in almost two decades due to the coronavirus crisis, prompting fears that more birds will be illegally killed.