Government ‘piling pressure on scientists to endorse Covid vaccine before Christmas’

However, the Government appears to be making plans for much earlier delivery. This week it emerged…

Regular colds could give children more protection against Covid, scientists say

Children may have greater protection against coronavirus because they pick up so many colds, research suggests.…

BAME health workers need extra care during second Covid wave, says minister

Black, Asian and minority ethnic health workers require extra care during the coronavirus second wave, a minister…

‘Covid graphs were wrong and death toll will not surpass first wave’

Although the central forecasts remain unchanged, forecasting 750 deaths a day and 4,290 hospital admissions by…

The NHS ‘may well have been the single biggest problem over Covid’

The health service’s “lack of capacity and lack of flexibility” has been “very, very alarming” over…

City-wide Covid testing could allow people to ‘go about their business’, says Government adviser

City-wide Covid-19 tests could free millions of people from self-isolation, a Government adviser has suggested, allowing people…

NHS algorithm wrongly predicted postponing cancer treatments during first Covid wave

However, new analysis published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) found that increasing the wait to surgery…

Nearly half of Covid patients in some hospitals are likely to have caught it there

Nearly half of coronavirus patients in some NHS hospitals are likely to have caught it there,…

Everyone over 60 classed as ‘clinically vulnerable’ in second Covid lockdown

During the first lockdown, around two million people defined as “clinically extremely vulnerable” were given advice…

Mass Covid testing plan to offer route out of lockdown

The first pilot scheme starting on Friday and offered to everyone in Liverpool, including schoolchildren. Tests…