The Latest Breaking News on COVID-19

President Joe Biden’s administration has announced that it’s accelerating the distribution of 1.8 million monkeypox vaccines. While a positive development, it can’t paper over the government’s multiple missteps in responding to this crisis.

Infection rate now diminished after peaking during July heatwave but fears of new autumn wave persist

Around one in five vaccinated Britons with Omicron or Delta strain experienced diarrhoea as a symptom

Inequitable access to COVID-19 vaccines has turned out to be the catastrophic moral failure the World Health Organization’s director-general warned about at the beginning of 2021.

Lingering effects of virus costing workers around $170bn per year in lost wages, Brookings Institute says

Oxford Vaccine Group director Professor Sir Andrew Pollard said top-up doses should cut the numbers of patients who are admitted to hospital

Top-up doses should cut the numbers of patients who are admitted to hospital, according to Oxford Vaccine Group director Professor Sir Andrew Pollard

The UK is the only G7 country to refuse to fund Evusheld, an antibody treatment which can boost protection against Covid for those whose immune systems do not respond well to vaccines

The latest COVID-19 surge, caused by a shifting mix of quickly evolving omicron subvariants, appears to be waning, with cases and hospitalizations beginning to fall.