Schools to reopen in January with teachers giving Covid tests to students, govt insists
Teenagers will be back in the classroom in January with teachers being lined up to carry out coronavirus tests, reports suggest, as scientists probe whether the mutated strain is more prevalent in kids
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Hundreds of women have taken to social media to report similar experiences
As months went on, it became clear Dawn had developed so-called long Covid
Illness is thought to affect as many as one in 20 people, and especially women
Coughing fits that send shockwaves down to your toes. Breathlessness that feels as though you’re drowning. Haunted by a cloud of constant, paralysing exhaustion.
All symptoms that crept up on 46-year-old Dawn Knight in March, after she returned from a family holiday in Thailand. There could be little doubt: it was a classic case of Covid.
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But a few weeks into her illness came another symptom, one which she had not yet heard of in the flurry of news reports. She missed her period. There was no chance that she could be pregnant, but by April, there was still no sign of it.
► The challenges facing the sector.
► .and car makers plans for the future
The boss of Bentley Motors has warned that the added cost of a hard Brexit would slice a quarter off the car maker s profits worldwide - and admitted that a last-minute deal with the EU was at the top of his Christmas wishlist.
Speaking the week before Christmas, chairman and CEO Adrian Hallmark said: I sincerely hope some kind of common ground can be found in these last days of negotiations with the EU to find a credible trade deal. While a hard Brexit would not kill us, it would dent our profitability and make us less competitive. It would slow us down with component supply. But we are prepared as we can be.