The Latest Breaking News on COVID-19

The widow of Dr Stephen Wright, 32, who died 10 days after his Covid vaccination, is planning to sue the pharmaceutical giant.

The health board says the vast majority of the population has good protection against the disease.

There is hope in the news that the leading version of naloxone, the No. 1 drug used to reverse opioid overdoses, will soon be available without a prescription. Making it easier to obtain the life-saving drug should save lives, but the devil, as they say, may be in the details.

U.S. regulators have authorized a second round of omicron-targeted boosters for individuals older than 65 and those with weakened immune systems.

The latest Covid strain, said to be an Omicron sub-variant, Arcturus, may be up to 1.2 times more infectious that previous sub-variants, according to researchers.

Certain Americans at high risk from COVID-19 can get an extra vaccine booster this spring

Health bosses have warned the new variant is 'one to watch'

Teenager Jacob Stevens, from Columbus in Ohio, US, spent six days on a ventilator after he overdosed on the over-the-counter medicine Benadryl in front of his friends during a dangerous viral TikTok challenge

Drivers who suffer from hay fever have been warned that they could be given a £2,500 fine and end up with potential points on their licence if their symptoms impact their ability to drive

'Arcturus' could potentially be 1.2 times more infectious than the most recent sub-variant of Omicron

A 300-page Senate report has concluded that the dominant theory that the virus jumped from animals to humans no longer deserves the ‘presumption of accuracy’