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  • Wednesday, 18 May, 2022
    Coronavirus pandemic
    How can Covid-19 affect the human brain?

    Scientists are trying to understand the cause of neurological effects and whether symptoms will be long-lasting

  • Tuesday, 17 May, 2022
    Covid-19 vaccines
    African leaders urge global vaccine body to buy locally made Covid jabs

    Plea comes as continent’s top vaccine production plant faces uncertain future due to collapse in demand

  • Thursday, 12 May, 2022
    Space exploration
    Astronomers release first image of supermassive black hole at centre of Milky Way

    Collapsed star located 25,000 light years from Earth identified using Event Horizon Telescope

  • Tuesday, 10 May, 2022
    Coronavirus pandemic
    WHO chief warns that China’s zero-Covid strategy is not sustainable

    New modelling underscores country’s vulnerability because of faltering vaccination drive

  • Monday, 9 May, 2022
    FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen
    The cost of China’s zero-Covid lockdown

    Africa’s top Covid-19 vaccine plant has halted production due to lack of demand

  • Thursday, 5 May, 2022
    Coronavirus pandemic
    Coronavirus far deadlier than official count, WHO estimate suggests

    Health body says 15mn people died by the end of 2021, nearly three times official death toll

  • Wednesday, 4 May, 2022
    Coronavirus treatment
    UK accused of leaving Covid immunocompromised ‘out to dry’

    Vulnerable people feel they are forgotten because of government’s ‘living with Covid’ strategy

  • Sunday, 1 May, 2022
    Coronavirus pandemic
    Africa’s top Covid vaccine plant faces uncertain future after production halted

    The problems threaten plans to produce 60 per cent of all vaccines administered in Africa locally by 2040

  • Friday, 29 April, 2022
    Disease control and prevention
    Scientists puzzle over Covid pandemic link to child hepatitis cases

    Experts are racing to find the cause of an unexplained illness diagnosed in nearly 200 youngsters

  • Thursday, 28 April, 2022
    Disease control and prevention
    Climate change poses pandemic threat by accelerating animal virus spread, study warns

    Hotspots for viral transmission among animals are projected to overlap with densely populated urban areas

  • Wednesday, 27 April, 2022
    ReviewScience books
    Preventable — how we can stop the next world-changing pandemic

    Could politicians have responded better to Covid? Public health expert Devi Sridhar is both prescient and scathing

  • Tuesday, 26 April, 2022
    Disease control and prevention
    Global health officials probe unexplained child hepatitis cases

    The mystery illness has been recorded in the US, Israel and 10 EU countries

  • Friday, 22 April, 2022
    Coronavirus pandemic
    UK Covid infection rate declines sharply from recent peak

    Accelerating downward trend eases pressure on overstretched NHS

  • Friday, 22 April, 2022
    NHS England
    UK looks to ban purchase of medical supplies linked to forced labour

    NHS England set to be barred from procuring goods and services tainted by human trafficking or slavery

  • Sunday, 17 April, 2022
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    Number of vacant NHS hospital beds falls to lowest level since start of pandemic

    Health service in England is grappling with twin challenges of Covid and clearing record treatment backlog

  • Sunday, 17 April, 2022
    Coronavirus pandemic
    China’s Covid death data obscure true impact of Omicron, experts say

    Official statistics show only two people have died since March despite tens of thousands of cases

  • Thursday, 14 April, 2022
    Coronavirus pandemic
    Coronavirus infections start to fall in England

    Latest wave of cases unleashed by Omicron offshoot shows signs of abating

  • Wednesday, 13 April, 2022
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    Breathing rooms: pollution and the property market

    Air quality could become as important to homebuyers as price per square foot, proximity to schools and transport links

  • Sunday, 10 April, 2022
    Coronavirus pandemic
    UK health bosses accuse government of ‘abandoning interest’ in Covid

    NHS Confederation urges ministers to rethink strategy as infection rates hit record high

  • Wednesday, 6 April, 2022
    Coronavirus pandemic
    NHS trusts in England declare critical incident as hospital admissions near January high

    Ambulance and emergency care providers scale back services as cases of Omicron sub-variant continue to rise

  • Tuesday, 5 April, 2022
    Coronavirus pandemic
    Covid infections rise fastest among older groups in England

    Prevalence of disease among over-55s driven by greater social mixing and waning vaccine protection

  • Monday, 4 April, 2022
    UK airports
    UK holidaymakers face travel chaos as Covid forces flight cancellations

    Airlines and airports are struggling to rehire staff laid off during pandemic as demand surges

  • Monday, 4 April, 2022
    Coronavirus pandemic
    UK defends scrapping free Covid tests as list of symptoms expands

    Downing Street said cost was ‘unsustainable’ despite case rates reaching record high 

  • Saturday, 2 April, 2022
    Coronavirus pandemic
    UK offices empty fast as Covid infection rates reach record high

    White-collar workers hit hard with latest data showing 4.9m Britons infected by coronavirus in a week

  • Wednesday, 30 March, 2022
    News in-depthCoronavirus pandemic
    Health experts warn end of mass Covid testing in UK may be premature

    As infections reach a record high, scientists question government plans to scale back free tests within days

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