Hundreds of asylum seekers are “still stuck in limbo” in Glasgow hotels a week after the knife attack at the Park Inn, the Scottish Refugee Council said. After the attack in Glasgow last Friday, Mears Group – the company paid by the Home…
The protesters called for all humanitarians to condemn what they describe as "gross violations of human right in Oromio, Ethiopia The Oromo Community in Scotland (OCS) staged a protest at Glasgow's George Square on Tuesday, July 7, calling on both the Scottish and…
An NHSGGC testing facility has reached the milestone of 100,000 Covid-19 tests since the beginning of the pandemic. The West of Scotland Specialist Virology Centre (WoSSVC), based within the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital introduced the SARs COV-2 testing service at the beginning of…
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Phase 3: staying safe and protecting others. Below are the new rules on staying safe and protecting others to help suppress the virus. Face coverings In enclosed spaces, where physical distancing is more difficult and where there is a risk of close…
NHSGGC’s Director of Public Health has produced a helpful video for parents worried about when to get their children tested for Covid. Dr Linda de Caestecker worked with Glasgow City Council on the video, after a dramatic rise in requests for tests for…
More than 922,000 recoveries and 28,000 deaths cumulatively. As of Tuesday, 25 August 2020, a total of 1.1 million COVID 19 cases were confirmed on the African continent - data from the WHO office in Africa shows. Almost a million people have recovered from the virus…
JRS UK also called on the UK to implement a post-EU system “where people seeking asylum can arrive safely in the UK and have their claims processed, and where it is possible for people seeking asylum to reunite with family.” Britain’s leading Catholic…
A member of the Paisley Opera has thanked NHS staff by organising an operatic rendition of Easter Hymn using Zoom Elaine Loch, who has a degenerative eye condition called myopic macular disease, wanted to say thank you to staff after they were able…
If people seeking asylum had the right to work six months after making their initial claim it would lead to increased income tax and National Insurance as well as fewer support payments, a a new research finds The government could receive around £98…
A new taskforce has been set up to help the city's social recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The Social Recovery Taskforce, facilitated by the Community Planning Strategic Partnership as part of the council’s renewal and recovery programme, brings together representatives from a range…