The TV doctor, 41, used a home-testing kit to perform the test live on air as he showed how it is simply a case of pricking your finger and collecting blood in a vial.
Traffic jam after members of various farmers’ organizations block National Highway -11 during their chakka jam protest, in Jaipur, Saturday
LONDON: American actors Susan Sarandon and John Cusack, the US fashion magazine Vogue and environmental movement Extinction Rebellion have joined the growing stream of voices endorsing and amplifying the farmers’ protests in India.
Sarandon, known for her roles in films like “Bull Durham”, “Thelma and Louise” and “Dead Man Walking”, tweeted an article on the protests, saying: “Standing in solidarity with the #FarmersProtest in India.”
Standing in solidarity with the #FarmersProtest in India. Read about who they are and why they’re protesting below. https://t.co/yWtEkqQynF Susan Sarandon (@SusanSarandon) 1612552215000
Doctor begs Covid-sceptic Tory MP to volunteer in her ICU as patients die
Dr Samantha Batt-Rawden appeared on This Morning where she reacted to Conservative MP Desmond Swayne, who encouraged anti-vaxxers and said the NHS were exaggerating
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A number of final year medical students claim they were forced to wet themselves during a formal exam to avoid being disqualified from the online test.
The Doctor s Association UK (DAUK) has stepped in to represent the students following a string of complaints to the UK Foundation Programme (UKFPO) over the way they handled the virtual exams.
The UKFPO exam in December was being sat by students across the country using the Pearson Vue system - a secure online testing programme.
The Situational Judgement Test the students had been sitting was two hours and 22 minutes long.
The complaints include one student who claims they were disqualified for going to the toilet, despite trying to contact the exam invigilator multiple times without hearing back.
British Indians are the largest ethnic minority group in the UK. Analysis of surveillance data by Public Health England shows that death rates from Covid-19 were highest among people of black and Asian ethnic groups.
The report, “Vaccines, the pandemic, and British Indians”, brings together data from the British Indian Census survey in 2020, focus groups, and its own online survey in December, covering contributions from more than 2,000 British Indians.
It notes that the rapid development of the newly approved vaccines “brings a much-needed source of hope whilst for others, this is a source of anxiety”.
The findings echo those published by the Royal Society of Public Health in December, which found that Asian communities were least likely to take a Covid-19 vaccine (55% compared to 79% of white respondents).