Disease will circulate alongside flu and other seasonal viruses and become part of accepted winter illnessCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageBritain faces the prospect of thousands of annual Covid deaths for years to come, scie…
Sarah Perry: As an author, I felt useless in the pandemic. So I trained to be a vaccinator
Inspired by a desire to be good and help others during the pandemic, novelist Sarah Perry trained to vaccinate people. But what does it mean to be good when there is so much bad faith?Earlier this year – lockdown three: no sign of spring – I travelled …
Sajid Javid admits UK Covid rates unpredictable as cases rise again
Health secretary’s comments came after a week of declining cases ended with 4,000 increase in one dayCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageSajid Javid has said “no one really knows” what trajectory the Covid pandemic will take in …
The useful illusion of Covid incompetence | Letters
Jeanne Warren on how the UK government continues to avoid responsibility, and Sarah Sheils on 1919’s flu mutationI have long thought that incompetence was not a credible explanation for the government’s more extreme actions during the pandemic, so I we…
New US mask guidance prompted by evidence vaccinated can spread Delta
• CDC director Rochelle Walensky cites ‘new science’• People with outbreak infections can pass on virusThe director of the Centers for Disease Control and Protection spoke on Wednesday about evidence that vaccinated people can spread the Covid-19 Delta…
UK Covid live news: Labour condemns ‘reckless’ quarantine lifting for those vaccinated in US and EU
Latest updates: Angela Rayner criticises Boris Johnson’s plan to let amber list arrivals who were jabbed in the US or EU avoid quarantineEasing travel rules for those vaccinated in US and EU ‘reckless’ – LabourJohnson rejects Gove’s claim that Covid va…
Johnson rejects Gove remark that Covid vaccine refusers are ‘selfish’
PM emphasises positive benefits of having jab and appears to distance himself from vaccine passport planCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageBoris Johnson has rejected Michael Gove’s assertion that people who refuse to be vaccina…