Covid infections in England fall by two-thirds but spreading fastest among young | World news
Covid infections have fallen by two-thirds in a month in England but the virus is now spreading most among primary-age…
Covid hit UK hard because of years of Conservative rule, Keir Starmer to say | Keir Starmer
Keir Starmer will use a major speech on Thursday to claim that the coronavirus pandemic has hit the UK disproportionately…
Australian politics live: Facebook blocks news across the country; Victoria comes out of lockdown | Australia news
It’s the last sitting day of the week and it’s all gone a little pear-shaped for the government. After announcing…
Mindfulness, laughter and robot dogs may relieve lockdown loneliness – study | Health & wellbeing
Robotic dogs, laughter therapy and mindfulness could help people cope with loneliness and social isolation during the Covid-19 pandemic, researchers…
Latino and Black Americans see lowest Covid vaccination rates, new data shows | Coronavirus
Latino and Black Americans are being vaccinated against Covid-19 at the lowest rates despite suffering disproportionately high levels of serious…
UK charities urgently call on PM to set up emergency fund | Charities
Hundreds of the UK’s biggest charity names, including Cancer Research UK, Comic Relief and Samaritans, have signed a joint letter…
Air systems in some UK quarantine hotels ‘risk spreading Covid’ | Transport policy
Some quarantine hotels housing people who have travelled to the UK from Covid-19 hotspots are using ventilation systems that risk…
How we are counting every US healthcare worker who dies from coronavirus | World news
Why is there a need to count frontline healthcare worker deaths from Covid-19? The government has no comprehensive record of…
Biden and Harris call for teachers to be vaccine priority – US politics live | US news
10.13am EST 10:13 Former Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke criticized the Republican governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, for falsely blaming…
New prime minister, Mario Draghi, vows to speed up Italy’s Covid vaccinations | World news
Italy’s new prime minister, Mario Draghi, has pledged to speed up the country’s coronavirus vaccination programme as he presented his…