Says everyone should consider getting one, as our Health Correspondent Sophie Hutchinson reports. It couldve ended completely differently. So, you know, i suppose i do owe them my life, really. Dorset, where theyve taken the fight against the coronavirus into peoples homes. Lessons learned from the first wave have highlighted the danger of leaving some patients to sit out the infection alone. We have seen people who are critically low on oxygen, and weve heard stories of people dying at home, because they havent been recognised. So, i do think this simple hit of kit really could save your life. The bit of kit is a small relatively cheap device known as an oximeter, which measures oxygen levels in the blood. Covid positive patients like michael kerr, who are aged 65 and over, or who are at high risk, are now being given the devices by gps and then monitored. Yeah, im fine. I feel certainly. Oximeters are seen as vital because some patients with the virus are not breathless despite havin
At least 16 people have died after an Air India Express flight carrying 191 people crash landed and broke in two at an airport in kerala. Many of the injured have been taken to hospitals. The lebanese shia movement, hezbollah, has denied any link to tuesdays deadly blast at the beirut port. Hassan nasrallah said that those who linked the organisation to the explosion were pushing for civil war. A Record Numbers of migrants have been stopped in a single day in the English Channel, trying to reach britain. Four thousand people including pregnant women and children, are known to have attempted the journey this year. Union leaders are threatening industrial action, after accusing British Airways of naked greed, in forcing some cabin crew out of theirjobs. The airline says the changes are needed for its survival following the coronavirus pandemic. Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me arejohn stevens, deputy Political Editor at the
Lord Frederick Windsor turns 45 today but his journey to a settled life has been far from smooth. The son of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent was once known as a confirmed hedonist.