The Latest Breaking News from Covid-19

Unlike previous economic downturns, the COVID pandemic created a crisis that disrupted both education and employment, abruptly halting young people’s emerging careers and clouding their hopes for the future. It doubly affected those transitioning into adulthood, out of school or university and into work, and it threatened the job security…

Star Wars actor Kenneth Colley has died aged 87 after contracting Covid and pneumonia.

Podcast host Joe Rogan once told political commentator Matt Walsh that after the COVID-19 pandemic, he started questioning his long-held beliefs, including whether the U.S. actually landed on the moon.

A top official at the Food and Drug Administration recently overruled government scientists on the availability of two COVID-19 vaccines

The lack of reliable information about health facilities across sub-Saharan Africa became very clear during the COVID-19 pandemic. Amid a surge in emergency care needs, information was lacking about the location of facilities, bed capacity and oxygen availability, and even where to find medical specialists. This data could have enabled…

At a press conference in May 2020, Mr Hancock said: ‘Right from the start, we’ve tried to throw a protective ring around our care homes.’

Former health secretary defends decision to discharge untested patients into care homes as ‘least worst option’

A civil servant earlier this week described the toll as a ‘generational slaughter within care homes’

Helen Hough says her husband was traumatised by ‘horrific’ death of patient and later killed himself