Fully vaccinated Brits will not have to self-isolate if they come into contact with someone who has tested positive for Covid from Monday, unless they also test positive. The rules will not change for the unvaccinated.
Fewer than one in five workers in U.K. cities have returned to the office, new figures show. The Government is said to be disappointed by this news but it hasn't exactly led by example.
A summary of all the most interesting stories that have appeared about politicians’ efforts to control the virus — and other acts of hubris and folly – not just in Britain, but around the world.
The costs of PCR tests, which are undoubtedly pricing many Brits out of holidays abroad, should be capped at £40 and scrapped altogether for those travelling from 'low risk' countries, Tory MPs have told the Government.
Almost 1.2 million people in England alone are being forced to wait for at least six months to access vital NHS services – nearly five times the number recorded in 2019. And matters will get worse before they get better.
The most educated are the least likely to get a Covid vaccine, according to a new U.S. study. While hesitancy rates have fallen across populations, it has held constant in those with PhDs.
A summary of all the most interesting stories that have appeared about politicians’ efforts to control the virus — and other acts of hubris and folly – not just in Britain, but around the world.
A panel of experts has told MPs that we should stop "frightening ourselves" with community testing because the Delta variant means there is no way of stopping Covid from spreading through the entire population.
Another milestone has been reached in the U.K.’s Covid vaccine roll-out, with more than three-quarters of all adults having had two ‘jabs’.
Almost a quarter of U.S. hospitals are requiring their staff to get 'jabbed' against Covid as a condition of employment, despite the efforts of some state leaders to ban vaccine mandates.
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