The Latest Breaking News from Covid-19

After the pain of the Covid years, the festival has returned with a roar. It can make a new standup’s career – if they are willing to sleep in a nuclear bunker and expose their own trauma

The hundreds of Covid-19 deaths, thousands of hospitalisations and tens of thousands of Long Covid patients won't disappear just because the country has plugged its ears to the virus.

Comment: What better time to celebrate paid parental leave extensions and the end of Covid-19 than 24 hours after being hammered by economists and commentators on an unworkable tax policy?

Airports lost money on aviation operations between 2021 and 2023 but car parking remained a huge source of income

The research detailed a new symptom of long Covid after a 33-year-old man was referred to a specialist clinic

Variant is anticipated evolution but exact scope of virus is difficult to discern because of limited surveillance, experts say

Weeks before the COVID-19 pandemic swept into Texas, a biologist found a dead bat covered in a white fungus — the state’s first official case of white-nose syndrome. Now, scientists are on a mission to understand how many bats have been lost.

Downing Street says it hopes to return people to the boat ‘as soon as possible’ but declines to give timeframe

When the COVID pandemic hit, epidemiologist Professor Emeritus Mary-Louise McLaws AO became the go-to expert for many journalists across the media spectrum. With new research being released daily, access to calm, reliable and knowledgeable experts like Mary-Louise – or “ML” as she was known to her friends – became paramount…

New Zealand has removed the last of its remaining COVID-19 restrictions, marking the end of a government response to the pandemic that was watched closely around the world

In today’s newsletter: The ‘Eris’ strain of Covid is a reminder that the virus has never fully gone away – but what will it mean for Britain?