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Vitamin D helps regulate the amount of calcium and phosphate in the body

Businesses with 250-plus employees in England, including cafes, restaurants and takeaways, are required to display the information from April 6.

Scotland and Wales set to make the postal service permanent, while ministers in England end the trial

From April 1, the mass Covid testing centres around the region will be no more, and it will be much harder to get a test to check if you may have the virus.

Brits are being discouraged from ordering packs of free NHS lateral flow tests - with authorities saying most tests are needed for people considered higher risk

It may not feel like it when you’re swabbing your throat, but improving how we test for diseases is one of the big positives of COVID. Applying methods developed for COVID to other diseases could revolutionise how we detect the causes of disease over the next decade.

Department of Health and Social Care looking into allegations over purchases in first year of pandemic

Care workers have been added to the shortage occupation list after a decision by the Department of Health and Social Care last year.

The private messages, which emerged after a standards probe into Owen Paterson's lobbying for Randox, also show the MP asked Mr Hancock to "kill" news stories making claims about his involvement with the deal