Covid-19

Reading Time: < 1 minute Bedford’s director of public health said she was “really worried” about the local increase in Covid-19 cases linked to the Indian variant. …

Reading Time: < 1 minute Professor Adam Finn, who is a member of the JCVI, told BBC Breakfast viewers not to mix with others for at least…

Reading Time: < 1 minute There is a “high degree of confidence” that vaccines protect against the Indian variant of COVID-19 – but it can “spread like…

Reading Time: < 1 minute World health experts issued a grim warning Friday that the second year of Covid-19 was set to be “far more deadly”, Read…

Reading Time: < 1 minute As cases of the highly transmissible new Indian variant of Covid begin to rise in parts of Britain, questions are being raised…

Reading Time: < 1 minute The Indian COVID variant could cause “serious disruption” to the planned roadmap out of lockdown in June, the prime minister has said. …

Reading Time: < 1 minute Scientists say the Covid-19 pandemic should serve as a wake-up call for the biggest overhaul of urban planning for public health in…

Reading Time: < 1 minute Boris Johnson was facing mounting pressure to halt England’s long-awaited next step out of lockdown today as it was revealed that the…

Reading Time: < 1 minute Covid jabs have saved almost 12,000 lives and prevented 33,000 hospitalisations, figures revealed yesterday. Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minute The NHS could be at risk of being overwhelmed if the Indian variant is more than 30 per cent more transmissible than the Kent…