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Former deputy chief medical officer who was at centre of response to pandemic had been due to attend an investiture ceremony at Windsor Castle on Tuesday

The former deputy chief medical officer, who became a cult figure after using colourful football analogies about the Covid pandemic, is still recovering from a bout of the disease

'You could end up doing 24-hour shifts three or four times a week if your colleagues are sick'

Doomscrolling, according to Merriam-Webster, is “the tendency to continue to surf or scroll through bad news, even though that news is saddening, disheartening, or depressing”. For many it’s a habit born of the pandemic – and one that is likely to stay.

Even as America topped a million coronavirus deaths on Monday, congressional Republicans continued playing games with vaccine funding, holding it up over an unrelated immigration debate. The same short-sighted politics are also preventing the U.S. from pledging funding to an international effort that would ultimately help prevent resurgences here. These…

One million people should never have to die from another pandemic. Not in America, a country built to do so much better

Saranjeet Trina Kandola made nearly £5k tricking people into paying for fake Covid 'fit to fly' certificates

It will build on the success of two experimental medicine projects.

Saranjeet Trina Kandola tricked holidaymakers into paying for fake Covid-19 'fit to fly' certificates making nearly £5,000 as customers became concerned the certificates were fake

Almost three million journeys a day are being made on the Tube - a level not seen since before the pandemic.

Respondents are more concerned about spreading COVID-19 to others or being inconvenienced by restrictions than getting sick or dying.