The Latest Breaking News on COVID-19

Levels continue to rise throughout England, Wales and Scotland

The surge is being blamed on Omicron variant BA.275, according to the Office for National Statistics

Levels continue to rise in England, Wales and Scotland, though the trend is uncertain Northern Ireland.

One of the lingering — and potentially disastrous — effects of the COVID pandemic is that more parents are reluctant to have their children vaccinated against what used to be common childhood diseases, as well as against flu and the mutating coronavirus strains.

There has been a small increase in the nation's daily average COVID-19 cases, according to the latest health department data.

Respiratory syncytial virus infects nearly everyone by age 2, usually causing nothing beyond cold symptoms. But it’s also the top cause of hospitalizations among kids under 5.

LOS ANGELES — It was three years ago this month that California documented its first known victim of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Patient numbers have jumped 11% in the latest week.

ONS numbers reveal rates of deaths now much lower for all ethnic groups compared with earlier in pandemic

‘It is also causing lung disease. It is horrific,’ study author Chloe Orkin says

The Covid-19 pandemic will come to an end this year, according to virologist Dr Yong Poovorawan, head of the Centre of Excellence in Clinical Virology at Chulalongkorn University.