ONS data suggests some Covid-enforced changes to daily life will remain after pandemic subsidesCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAbout nine in 10 people in the UK are still wearing face coverings at least some of the time desp…
Joe Biden says he and first lady plan on getting Covid booster shot
President defends shots as millions worldwide are unvaccinated: US has ‘provided more to the rest of the world than all the rest of the world combined’Joe Biden has said that he and first lady Jill Biden plan on getting a booster shot and is comfortabl…
Extremely vulnerable in UK must urgently get booster shots, say campaigners
Government’s vaccines watchdog has cast doubt on start date for Covid jab booster programmeCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageCampaigners for clinically extremely vulnerable people have called for urgent government action to en…
‘No one wanted to read’ his book on pandemic psychology – then Covid hit
Australian psychologist Steven Taylor published what would turn out to be a prophetic book, and it has become like a Lonely Planet guide to the pandemicIn October 2019, a month or so before Covid-19 began to spread from the industrial Chinese city of W…
Jabbed adults infected with Delta ‘can match virus levels of unvaccinated’
Researchers say implications for transmission remain unclear but reaching herd immunity even more challengingCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageFully vaccinated adults can harbour virus levels as high as unvaccinated people if …
Gordon Brown hits out at EU’s ‘neocolonial approach’ to Covid vaccine supplies
Former UK prime minister calls on western leaders to convene summit to address Africa’s vaccine deficitGordon Brown: the world is making billions of Covid vaccine doses, so why is Africa not getting them?Gordon Brown has accused the EU of adopting a “n…
Australia secures 1m Pfizer vaccine doses from Poland, with half earmarked for Sydney Covid hotspots
530,000 of the new doses to go to 20-to-39-year-olds living in the 12 hotspot LGAs as NSW struggles to contain outbreakFollow our Covid live blog for the latest updatesRestrictions: NSW; Vic; Qld; borders. Hotspots: NSW; Vic; QldIs lightning-fast Delta…
New Covid variants ‘will set us back a year’, experts warn UK government
Vaccine-beating variant is ‘realistic possibility’, say scientists, amid calls for contingency plans to be revealedCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageMinisters are being pressed to reveal what contingency plans are in place to …
‘No concept of how awful it was’: the forgotten world of pre-vaccine childhood in Australia
Until relatively recently, lethal infectious diseases stalked the lives of Australian children – including my father, Tom Keneally. Vaccines have saved millions It’s 1940, and a five-year-old boy lies in an oxygen tent. He struggles for breath and hall…
Coronavirus live news: Iran orders travel ban; more than 75,000 children over 12 sign up for jabs in Ireland
Latest updates: Australia forced into snap statewide lockdown after enduring worst day of pandemic so far; price of NHS tests cut by a fifthNSW in lockdown as premier warns ‘this is literally a war’This is a public health issue’: can Covid-era music fe…