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TSB customers hit by online banking outage

A number of TSB customers were left unable to access online banking and mobile app services for both Android and iOS on Wednesday.
Independent website DownDetector, which tracks social-media posts on how sites are performing, showed hundreds of customers complaining of an outage. Users were met with an "unexpected error" and some said they had been left with no way to access their accounts. TSB said that the issue had now be solved. In a statement it told the BBC: "We experienced intermittent issues with our mobile and internet banking services earlier today. All our services are now working, however if customers experience an error message they should try logging on again."

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Arizona doctor believes Vitamin C could be game changer in COVID-19 treatment

Could a common vitamin prove to be a key in helping treat the coronavirus? Some doctors in both China and New York have been using Vitamin C to try to treat their patients.
One Arizona doctor who’s been using this technique for other infections explains why vitamin C might be effective. The key, he says? Absorption through an IV. “When people get sick, the first thing in their body that actually gets depleted is vitamin C,” said Dr. Steven Katz, a naturopathic physician in Scottsdale. Dr. Katz often sees patients with pneumonia or bronchitis. The World Health Organization says coronavirus can lead to things like pneumonia. “I’ve been using Vitamin C for acute and chronic infection patients for a long time,” he said. He said the immune support the vitamin has on a person’s body is incredible. But he said it's more than just your typical Vitamin C pill or chewable gummy. Instead, it’s a very high dose of it through an IV that he said could help save these COVID-19 patients. “The absorption is going to be much higher when you go with an IV because it gets absorbed right away,” he said.

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Coronavirus: Moscow rolls out patient-tracking app

Moscow is launching an app to track the movements of people in the capital diagnosed with coronavirus, who have been ordered to stay at home.
The city's IT chief said the service would become operational on Thursday. The move coincides with a separate initiative to help European health authorities create virus-tracing apps that communicate with each other. This could help relax border restrictions. Germany is expected to announce its own app that ties into the scheme shortly. NHSX, which is working on similar for the UK, has been in communication with those running the project but has yet to commit to interoperability.

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Hungry black hole may be cosmic 'missing link'

A team of astronomers has found what it says is the best evidence yet for an elusive class of black hole.
They say the presumed "intermediate-mass" black hole betrayed its existence by tearing apart a wayward star that ventured too close. These medium-sized objects are a long-sought "missing link" in the evolution of the cosmos. Researchers used two X-ray observatories, along with the Hubble telescope, to identify the object."Intermediate-mass black holes are very elusive objects, and so it is critical to carefully consider and rule out alternative explanations for each candidate, said Dr Dacheng Lin, from the University of New Hampshire in Durham, US, who led the study.

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Coronavirus: Tech firm Bloom Energy fixes broken US ventilators

A Californian company that usually makes green-energy fuel cells is due to deliver 170 repaired ventilators to Los Angeles later on Monday after transforming its manufacturing process.
An engineer at Bloom Energy downloaded the service manual and taught himself how to dismantle and rebuild them in a day, the Los Angeles Times reported. They had been in storage since the H5N1 bird flu outbreak of the mid-2000s. Bloom says it is now working to find other stockpiles of disused machines. On Saturday, as California Governor Gavin Newsom visited the manufacturing plant, he said: “We got a car and a truck and had [them] brought here to this facility at 08:00 this morning.

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Coronavirus: Trump extends US guidelines beyond Easter

President Donald Trump has said federal coronavirus guidelines such as social distancing will be extended across the US until at least 30 April.
He had previously suggested that they could be relaxed as early as Easter, which falls in mid-April.
"The highest point of the death rate is likely to hit in two weeks," Mr Trump said. He appeared to be referring to peak infection rates that experts fear could overwhelm hospitals. White House medical adviser Dr Anthony Fauci had earlier warned that the virus could kill up to 200,000 Americans. Dr Fauci said that it was "entirely conceivable" that millions of Americans could eventually be infected.

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'Extraordinary' recovery: 101-year-old Italian man with COVID-19 was released from the hospital

A medical worker wearing a protective mask and suit treats novel coronavirus patients in Italy.
A 101-year-old Italian man has recovered from COVID-19 and his city's deputy mayor said the story provides "hope for the future," CNN reported. Gloria Lisi told reporters the man, identified as Mr. P., had an "extraordinary" recovery. "Mr. P. made it. The family brought him home yesterday evening," CNN reported Lisi saying. "To teach us that even at 101 years the future is not written."

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Food wholesalers offer online orders to sell stock

Food wholesalers are making online home deliveries in response to Covid-19 measures.
As bars, restaurants and hotels shut due to government restrictions, the wholesalers that usually provide them with food and drink, have seen a huge drop in business. But with stock to shift, they are determined to find new customers. Members of the Federation of Wholesale Distributors have seen a 70% decline in trade over the past two weeks, “Food distributors have seen their market disappear overnight,” says chief executive James Bielby. “Companies have bought in stock, and the vast majority of it is going to waste as they can’t sell it, and in a lot of cases they haven’t been paid.

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Coronavirus: More than 900 deaths in a day in Italy

Italy has recorded 969 new coronavirus deaths, its highest daily figure in the outbreak so far.
It means 9,134 people have now died from the virus in the country. Earlier World Health Organization chief Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said a "chronic global shortage" of protective equipment was one of the "most urgent threats" to the ability to save lives. Italy is the worst-affected in Europe. Almost everything has been closed and people told to stay at home. Earlier on Friday, authorities warned that restrictions were likely to be extended beyond 3 April.

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Coronavirus: Zoom is in everyone's living room - how safe is it?

Zoom, the video-conferencing app that has seen a huge rise in downloads since quarantines were imposed around the world, is now being used by millions for work and social gatherings.
This week Prime Minister Boris Johnson tweeted a picture of himself chairing a Cabinet meeting via the app. This led to questions about how secure it was for government meetings. Zoom has angrily defended its security record, saying it would answer any questions the government had. It was closely followed by reports that the Ministry of Defence (MoD) was suspending use of the app, something it strenuously denied.