NINE out of ten police haven't fined anyone for breaking Covid face mask rules, it has been revealed.
Health secretary Matt Hancock announced plans three months ago to make face coverings mandatory in shops and supermarkets from July 24.
But a Freedom of Information request carried out by Digital Marketing Agency, Reboot, has revealed just four forces out of 40 have issued fines.
It comes as the military was deployed to Liverpool on Friday to help identify local sources of infection and provide assistance to health officers.
As of Friday, the military was carrying out 32 tasks under the official military aid to the civil authorities (Maca) mechanism allowing the Government and local authorities to formally request assistance from the Armed Forces.
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COPS FAIL TO ISSUE MASK PENALITIES
Police forces are failing to hand out penalties for not wearing face coverings with 90 per cent not issuing a single one since masks were made compulsory in shops and indoor locations, it has been revealed.
Health secretary Matt Hancock announced plans three months ago to make face coverings mandatory in shops and supermarkets from July 24.
It became mandatory to wear face coverings on public transport from June 15 and he also announced masks would have to be worn at various indoor settings.
The police and Transport for London officers were told they have the powers to enforce fines of £200, which would be reduced if paid within 14 days, for the first offence, with repeat offenders seeing their fine doubled at each offence.
After the first offence, there is no discount.
In August figures released by the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) showed officers handed out 46 fines to people violating coronavirus laws by refusing to wear face masks in England and Wales.
Two days after it became mandatory to wear a mask on public transport, 38 fines were issued.
Now, a Freedom of Information request carried out by Digital Marketing Agency, Reboot, has revealed just four forces out of 40 have issued fines.
WORST-HIT COVID PATIENTS BRAINS AGE UP TO 10 YEARS
The brains of patients worst hit by Covid-19 age up to 10 years and cause IQs to drop, a UK study has found.
Tests on the cognitive abilities of people who had suffered from the coronavirus showed they performed worse than those that hadn't caught the bug.
Even people who showed only mild symptoms scored lower on the tests than those who had not got Covid.
The research was led by Dr Adam Hampshire and was carried out by researchers from Imperial College, the University of Cambridge, King's College London and the University of Chicago.
Read our full report on that here.
WELSH POLICE BLASTED FOR 'SHAMEFUL' SPOT CHECKS
A Welsh police force has been slammed for a “shameful” photo of spot checks on train passengers during a 17-day firebreak lockdown.
British Transport Police has faced fury online after sharing a photo of officers wearing masks crowding around a seat on a train service.
One said: “As a retired police officer I would feel very uneasy at the way you are dealing with this.
“Moreover your manner in these tweets is very confrontational and sounds very political. You will lose the public on this.”
Another said: “No sane person wants to be treated like this.
“The way the police are behaving is a disgrace.”
LONDON HEALTH CHIEFS ON STANDBY TO START COVID VACCINE DELIVERIES
London health chiefs are on standby to start taking deliveries of Covid vaccine stocks from next week, The Sun can reveal.
Health sources say staff at a major London hospital trust have been told to be ready to receive the first batches of the Oxford Astra-Zenica antidote from “week commencing the 2 November.”
The vaccine is still in testing, but a major effort has been ordered to have the world-leading hospital ready to go as soon as it is given the greenlight.
The Sun has learnt other clinical trials at the famous hospital have been paused as all resources go toward preparing to vaccinate thousands of doctors, nurses and other frontline staff.
And extra security measures are being planned over fears of anti-vaccine protests and to protect the valuable stock.
As it is likely to be one of the first hospitals in the world to begin vaccinating frontline health workers, there are fears it could be targeted and requires extra support.
EASTENDERS DIRECTOR SACKED FOR KEEPING COVID DIAGNOSIS QUIET
An EastEnders chief has been sacked for a breach of Covid rules that left the cast threatening mutiny.
Joe Nugent, first assistant director, spent two days on set while positive with coronavirus.
In the aftermath of Nugent’s behaviour, one cast member has tested positive for the virus.
A show official wrote to staff saying: “You will all have heard we had an active Covid case on site.
“This should serve as a reminder that keeping ourselves and our colleagues safe is an ongoing situation and a shared responsibility.”
Chiefs confirmed two positive cases of coronavirus on set, Nugent and an unnamed cast member.
Others, including star Danny Dyer, had negative tests following the set scare. Some well-loved screen stars live with vulnerable family members.
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Top actors were “incandescent” at first over the way they believed EastEnders had tried to keep the disease outbreak secret.
But it emerged the director, who had worked on the show for up to ten years, had kept it quiet.
WELSH ROADBLOCKS PUT IN PLACE BY COPS
Welsh police are using roadblocks to stop drivers making non-essential journeys during a 17-day fire-break lockdown.
It came after as family who travelled for five hours to reach Wales were escorted back to the border by officers.
Under tougher restrictions introduced this week, people in Wales can only leave their homes for essential reasons such as to buy food and medicine, provide care or exercise.
People have been asked to work from home where possible during the lockdown, which is set to end on November 9.
Leisure, hospitality and tourism businesses are closed, along with community centres, libraries and recycling centres, while places of worship are shut other than for funerals or wedding ceremonies.
BULGARIAN PM TESTS POSITIVE FOR COVID
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov has today announced he tested positive for coronavirus.
It comes as the Balkan country grapples with a spike in new coronavirus infections.
The government press office said Borissov was able to carry out his duties and was in constant contact with his ministers.
Mr Borissov had self-isolated late on Friday after he was informed that US Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth Keith Krach – who he had been in contact with five days ago – had tested positive for Covid-19, Reuters reported.
The Bulgarian PM wrote on his official Facebook page: “After two PCR tests, as of today I am positive with COVID-19.
RETURN OF STUDENTS AT XMAS COULD BE STAGGERED
The return of students to university in Scotland after spending Christmas at home could be staggered, according to the Education Secretary.
Thousands of students flocked to halls of residence in university towns such as Glasgow and Edinburgh last month – prompting a spike in coronavirus infections.
Education secretary John Swinney said that the Scottish Government is “learning lessons” from the return of students which will impact measures in place after the Christmas break.
Mr Swinney told the BBC that a system of mass testing, bolstered by a staggered return of students ensuring the system does not become overwhelmed, was being discussed as an option.
He said: “These are some of the options that are being looked at and obviously… the practicalities of that are changed and eased if the return of students is staggered over a longer period.”
SOAP STAR DIES OF COVID
Emmerdale and Coronation Street star Johnny Leeze has died aged 78 after testing positive for Coronavirus.
The actor's passing was confirmed by his daughter Holly who told the Daily Star her father died following a short illness two weeks ago.
Johnny, who played Ned Glover on Emmerdale from 1994 to 1999, tested positive for coronavirus the day before his death.
NHS FORCED TO DENY ALLEGATIONS THAT ELDERLY WERE REFUSED ICU TREATMENT
An NHS boss was forced to deny the allegations that elderly patients were refused ICU treatment during the first wave of Covid in a bid to stop hospitals from being overrun.
Patients aged over 80, and some in younger groups such as the over 60s, were not given potentially life-saving treatment because health chiefs were so concerned hospitals would be overwhelmed, it's claimed.
Patients were assessed via documents called a “triage tool” – drawn up at the request of England's chief medical officer Chris Whitty – with these used to prevent elderly Covid patients from being ventilated, it's alleged.
As part of an investigation, the Sunday Times says the tool was used to create a “score” for patients based on their age, frailty, and illness.
However, the allegations have today been vehemently denied by NHS national medical director Stephen Powis, who called them “deeply offensive” to doctors and nurses.
VACCINE BEFORE CHRISTMAS
NHS staff are set to get a coronavirus vaccine within weeks as the Government prepares a mass roll-out before Christmas, according to reports.
An NHS Trust chief is said to have sent his staff an email which outlines how a national vaccination programme could start in “early December”.
Glen Burley, chief executive of George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust in Warwickshire, told staff that a “coronavirus vaccine should be available this year”, according to the Mail on Sunday.
He added that NHS staff are set to be “prioritised prior to Christmas”.
In his memo, he wrote: “Our Trust, alongside NHS organisations nationally, has been told to be prepared to start a Covid-19 staff vaccine programme in early December.
“The latest intelligence states a coronavirus vaccine should be available this year with NHS staff prioritised prior to Christmas.
“The vaccine is expected to be given in two doses, 28 days apart.”
SECOND LOCKDOWN FOR WALES IN 2021
A second coronavirus fire-break lockdown could be imposed in January or February across Wales, a Government minister has said.
The country was put under a national lockdown from 6pm on Friday, October 23, following a rise in the number of Covid-19 cases.
Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford announced the 17-day “fire-break” lockdown on October 19.
But Deputy Minister for Economy and Transport Lee Waters said similar lockdown restrictions may continue to be introduced until a coronavirus vaccine is found, Wales Online reports.
Mr Waters said the Welsh Government was trying to “flatten the curve” of the second wave of Covid-19 but could not stop the virus from spreading entirely.
Speaking on BBC Wales' Sunday Supplement, he said: “This is not the last lockdown we are going to see.
DENISE 'KEEPING HER HEAD DOWN' AFTER SPAT WITH PIERS MORGAN
Denise Welch has admitted she is 'keeping her head down' following her public spat with Piers Morgan in which he branded her a 'Covidiot'.
Denise, 62, exchanged words with the Good Morning Britain host over their differing views on the coronavirus pandemic.
Following the row, the Loose Women star told OK!: “I’ve had enough of it. I’ve said my piece and I tried to do what I could for the mental health of the people that follow me.
“Now I’m just keeping my head down and looking after myself and my family.”
The feud started after Denise appeared on This Morning via video link to discuss the Covid-19 situation with hosts Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford.
“I'm not saying this is over. I'm not saying how horrendous this virus is and was,” she said.
For the full story, click here.
VARADKAR SAYS GOVT CAN VACCINATE PEOPLE BEFORE APRIL 2021
The Irish government expects to be able to begin to vaccinate vulnerable people against coronavirus in the first quarter or first half of 2021, Deputy Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said.
He told RTE Radio: “I'm increasingly optimistic, as is government, that we will see a vaccine approved in the next couple of months and that in the first half or first quarter of next year it'll be possible to start vaccinating those most at risk.”
CASES RISE BY 40 PER CENT
Another 19,790 Brits were diagnosed with coronavirus overnight – 39 per cent higher than this time last week.
151 more lives were lost across the UK as the country battles a second wave of Covid – fewer than yesterday, when 174 people lost their lives, and Friday, when 224 new deaths were recorded.
Today's infection tally is significantly less than Wednesday's biggest ever infection rise of 26,688.
However, cases are usually lower on Sundays due to the weekend lag in reporting.
Read our full story here.
BREAKING: ITALY REPORTS RECORD DAILY RISE
Italy reported a new daily record of 21,273 coronavirus cases with 128 deaths, health ministry figures showed today.
It comes as the government tightened restrictions further to try to bring the accelerating rise in case numbers under control.
Earlier, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced that bars and restaurants would have to close by 6 p.m. and said cinemas, gyms and swimming pools would be shut as part of a package of measures to combat the pandemic.
OVER 1,000 NEW CASES IN WALES
There have been a further 1,104 cases of Covid-19 diagnosed in Wales, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 42,681.
Public Health Wales said five further deaths had been reported, with the total rising to 1,777.
CHINA IMPOSES MASS TESTING AFTER XINJIANG OUTBREAK
Chinese officials are racing to quell a new coronavirus outbreak in the country's far northwest region of Xinjiang after 137 new infections were discovered in the past week.
Mass testing began on Saturday evening of some 4.75 million residents in and around Kashgar after a 17-year-old garment factory worker tested positive for the virus.
The country has largely brought domestic transmission under control through draconian lockdowns, travel restrictions and mass testing.
AFP reports that the new cases – all asymptomatic – were linked to a factory in Shufu county where the girl and her parents worked, the Xinjiang health commission told a press briefing earlier today.
WORST-HIT COVID PATIENTS BRAINS AGE UP TO 10 YEARS
The brains of patients worst hit by Covid-19 age up to 10 years and cause IQs to drop, a UK study has found.
Tests on the cognitive abilities of people who had suffered from the coronavirus showed they performed worse than those that hadn't caught the bug.
Even people who showed only mild symptoms scored lower on the tests than those who had not got Covid.
The research was led by Dr Adam Hampshire and was carried out by researchers from Imperial College, the University of Cambridge, King's College London and the University of Chicago.
Read our full report on that here.
BULGARIAN PM TESTS POSITIVE
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov has tested positive for coronavirus after taking two tests.
In a posting on his official Facebook account, Borissov said he would stay at home for treatment as recommended by his doctors.
Borissov and three cabinet ministers had self-isolated on Friday following contact with a person who had tested positive for the bug.
WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF SAYS 'WE ARE NOT GOING TO CONTROL PANDEMIC'
White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said that the US is “not going to control” the coronavirus pandemic despite a surge in cases across the country.
He told CNN: “We are not going to control the pandemic.
“We are going to control the fact that we get vaccines, therapeutics and other mitigation areas.”
Mr Meadows added that the US wouldn't get the pandemic under control as “it is a contagious virus just like the flu”, but that the Trump administration is “making efforts to contain it”.
SCOTLAND RECORDS OVER 1,000 CASES
Scotland has recorded one more death from coronavirus and 1,303 positive tests in the past 24 hours, the Government has announced.
A total of 56,752 people have now tested positive in Scotland, up from 55,449 the previous day.
Meanwhile the daily test positivity rate is 7.9%, down from 8.7% on Saturday.
WELSH POLICE SLAMMED FOR 'SHAMEFUL' SPOT CHECKS PIC
A Welsh police force has been slammed for a “shameful” photo of spot checks on train passengers during a 17-day firebreak lockdown.
British Transport Police has faced fury online after sharing a photo of officers wearing masks crowding around a seat on a train service.
The tweet read: “We are checking if your journey is essential! Please stay at home!”
But after a huge backlash, officers deleted it altogether – and posted a string of clarifications.
Read our full report here.
BREAKING: SPAIN DECLARES STATE OF EMERGENCY
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has announced a new state of emergency in an effort to curb a resurgence of the coronavirus.
The state of emergency will give regions, which decide on their own health matters, the backing to impose stricter measures, including curfews.
Spain this week became the first European country to surpass 1 million official COVID-19 cases.
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