Hearings have begun in the public inquiry, external scrutinising the UK's response to, and impacts of, the coronavirus pandemic. As the virus spread, government agencies increasingly published figures ...

The relaxation of Christmas rules is scrapped for much of south-east England and cut to just Christmas Day for the rest of ...

The UK is experiencing a new spike in COVID-19 infections driven by two recently emergent Omicron subvariants dubbed “Stratus” and “Nimbus”. Together these now account for the majority of cases in the ...

A new strain of Covid, with an apparently telltale symptom, has reached the UK, and already accounts for a high proportion of new recorded cases in England. The arrival of the Stratus strain comes as ...

A common and inexpensive diabetes drug could significantly lower the risk of Long COVID in overweight individuals, opening new possibilities for prevention strategies in the pandemic’s long tail.

Five years ago, COVID was all we could think about. Today, we’d rather forget about lockdowns, testing queues and social distancing. But the virus that sparked the pandemic, SARS-CoV-2, is still ...