Figure brings the total UK death toll to 135,147; Russia reports 20,329 new cases in 24 hours; anti-lockdown protesters clash with police in MelbourneProve your Covid status if you want to party, UK students toldPeople with chronic conditions most at r…
Ministers told to bar EU from UK trial data in vaccines row
England’s deputy medical chief asked for data to be withheld unless British vaccine guinea pigs allowed to travel abroad• Coronavirus – latest updates• See all our coronavirus coverageEngland’s deputy chief medical officer asked ministers to withhold a…
Could gene editing chickens prevent future pandemics?
Rearing virus-resistant birds could benefit humans too, say scientists, and Covid may have made us more open to the controversial technologyDiseases such as avian flu trigger the culling of millions of birds each year. But that need not be the case for…
‘It takes too long to get support’: alarm over rising primary school exclusions
Parents and teachers call for action as figures show more young children in England being permanently excludedSam Bates* was excluded from school for the first time when he was five years old. After moving into year 1, he struggled to sit still, became…
Teenage girls, body image and Instagram’s ‘perfect storm’
The suffering of the photo-sharing app’s users came into focus this week with the leak of Facebook’s internal research‘I felt my body wasn’t good enough’Emily started using Instagram when she was in her mid-teens and found it helpful at first. She used…
Private hospitals profit from NHS waiting lists as people without insurance pay out
As NHS waiting lists reach record levels, more and more patients are paying for ops out of their own pocketsBritons without health insurance on why they paid to go privateWhen Fabien needed to have a decayed tooth removed in May, his dentist told him t…
UK scientist warns over relaxation of Covid travel rules
Prof Alan McNally says genome surveillance remains vital, as ministers prepare to overhaul travel rulesCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageOne of the scientists behind the UK’s testing network for quickly identifying Covid varia…
Youth services in England and Wales ‘face being decimated’
Calls for more funding and 50,000 new workers and volunteers to meet steep rise in demand during CovidYouth leaders are calling for the recruitment of an additional 50,000 youth workers and volunteers to meet a tripling in levels of need during the pan…
MJ Rodriguez on Pose and making Emmy history: ‘I want to play anything: trans, cis, superhero, alien’
Her huge-hearted portrayal of Blanca has made Rodriguez the first trans performer to be up for a leading actress Emmy. Will she take the crown on Sunday? We join her for a Zoom call with a twistMJ Rodriguez can see me but I can’t see her. This is not t…
The Guardian view on cities: develop with care | Editorial
London politicians talk about creating ‘high streets for all’. The fate of two unique places will show whether they mean itThere are two places in London that would be the pride of any other major city in the world, yet which face an imminent threat to…