Readers respond to the leaked video showing Downing Street officials joking about a Christmas party during last year’s lockdownMy initial reaction to hearing of the Christmas party and the fake news briefing was feeling as if I had been kicked in the s…
Covid live news: South Korea surge sparks hospital alarm; ‘stealth’ Omicron variant found
South Korea daily cases top 7,000 for first time; ‘stealth’ version of Omicron ‘cannot be detected by routine tests’; Boris Johnson staff filmed joking about No 10 partyWHO Europe: jab young children to cut Covid risk at ChristmasModerna or Novavax aft…
Covid news live: Omicron likely to become dominant variant, Harvard researcher says; France to close nightclubs
The Omicron Covid variant is likely to ‘outcompete Delta’ in many, if not all, regions, an infectious disease researcher says; nightclubs in France will be ordered to close for four weeks to counter a Covid surgeNew York City sets Covid vaccine mandate…
Covid antiviral pill molnupiravir/Lagevrio set for UK at-home trials
People most vulnerable to Omicron would reportedly be offered experimental pill within 48 hours of testing positiveThe first at-home treatment for Covid-19 could reportedly be offered to UK patients before Christmas as an attempt to protect the most vu…
UK’s progress on Covid now squandered, warns top scientist
Sir Jeremy Farrar, director of Wellcome Trust, suggests emergence of Omicron variant means pandemic is far from overCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe emergence of the Omicron variant shows that the world is “closer to the …
WHO says no deaths reported from Omicron yet as Covid variant spreads
US and Australia become latest countries to confirm locally transmitted casesAct now against Omicron to stop new Covid wave, UK warnedGermany’s Covid wave could reach ‘sad peak’ at ChristmasCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageTh…
Covid news live: Germany warned over ICU capacity; Nigeria identifies Omicron in sample from October
Germany warned it could have 6,000 people in intensive care by Christmas; Nigeria says retrospective sequencing of previous cases has found OmicronUS to require stricter Covid testing for all travellersWHO advises vulnerable, unvaccinated and over 60s,…
South Africa to be put on England’s travel red list over new Covid variant
Flights from six countries will be banned as officials review travel measures after scientists voice concern over variant Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageFlights from southern Africa will be banned, with six countries placed…
Covid live: UK reports 47,240 new cases; Merkel urges successor to impose more restrictions in Germany
UK also records 147 further deaths; outgoing German chancellor warns ‘every day counts’ as cases exceed 75,000 a day for first timePregnant women urged to take Covid jab as new data shows it’s safeEU moves to place booster vaccines at heart of travel r…
Getting jabs to the unvaccinated has never been more critical | Andrew Pollard and Brian Angus
With vaccinated people receiving their boosters, the horrors of Covid are now restricted to those who won’t or can’t have a jabCovid patients in ICUs now almost all unvaccinated, says Oxford scientistMore than ever before, we must look behind the repor…