Brian Lovett, a product manager at an ad-tech firm in Denver, started 3D-printing quaint little knickknacks—coffee coasters and orchids pots—for his home back in 2018. But when the coronavirus pandemic hit his city, two of Lovett’s close friends, both doctors in the emergency room of Denver Health, told him that their supplies of protective equipment would run dry within 10 days. So, Lovett set his 3D printers on a different task: churning out protective face masks at a rate of 20 each day....

Boris Johnson’s Conservative government disregarded scientific advice about the danger to life posed by the coronavirus almost from the moment when the first deaths were reported in China. Instead, the government was mainly concerned with developing its response from the standpoint of combating “public disorder” and social unrest. This was the backdrop to its passing of the Coronavirus Bill on March 25 handing authoritarian powers to Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his ministers. Put on the...

More than 76,600 people have died from COVID-19 in Europe, according to official figures, with a further 3,021 reported dead yesterday. Britain is the latest country to record over 10,000 deaths of COVID-19 after France, Spain, Italy and the United States. A further 737 people were announced dead from COVID-19 Sunday, taking the overall toll to 10,612. New infections in Britain rose by 5,288 to 84,279. There remain over 70,000 confirmed active cases of coronavirus, with over 1,500 people...

Leaving hospital after seven days, three spent in intensive care, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson thanked his doctors and nurses and other National Health Service (NHS) workers who saved him from coronavirus. Speaking from his country residence, Chequers, Johnson said that the NHS “has saved my life. No question.” Waxing lyrical, Johnson declared: “We’re making progress in this national battle because the British public formed a human shield around this country’s greatest national asset,...

In the last week, the UK has become the centre of the coronavirus pandemic in Europe. On Friday, a further 847 people were announced to have died in hospital, bringing the official death total to 14,576. The dead included the 76 year old former England soccer international, Norman Hunter, a member of the 1966 World Cup winning squad. Boris Johnson’s Conservative government did nothing to prepare for the pandemic and instead pursued a policy of herd immunity—which envisaged the mass infection...