Travellers into Spain will need to show vaccine passports from May. That rules out unvaccinated Brits. But what about those with the vaccine? May could still be too early, warns Grant Shapps: "you can't say for certain".
The current mass testing regime for children in schools simply doesn’t pass by the numbers, according to Biostatistics Professor Jon Deeks. Of particular concern is the occurrence of false positives.
In January, Grant Shapps said that if the Government did not fully unlock the country by early March, he would stand "on the barricades to get our freedoms back". This date has passed, but Mr Shapps has lost his nerve.
The Prime Minister hoped that it would be "world-beating," but it turns out that England's test and trace system has met none of its key targets despite its £22 billion price tag, according to a new report.
From Friday, private garden parties and picnics in parks – with up to four people from two households – will be permitted in Scotland, under an "accelerated" easing of the country's lockdown before Easter.
A workspace provider says that "hybrid working" will become "the norm" after the pandemic as firms consider ways to cut costs. But will the reported cost of reduced productivity in the home keep staff in offices?
"All the modelling" suggests there will be another Covid surge this year, Professor Chris Whitty has warned MPs. So why close the Nightingale hospitals?
In a further indictment of the drive to "protect the NHS", analysis reveals that c. 11,000 women could be living with undiagnosed breast cancer. A reluctance to burden the NHS is said to be wreaking a “tragic cost”.
Used face masks aren't just to be found scattered across shop car parks and on local greens but also on the worlds most beautiful and delicate ecosystems. Divers in Manila have found scads of used masks on local reefs.
A report by the ONS has found that unemployment for recent university graduates reached 12% in the third quarter of last year, following months of Government-imposed lockdowns.
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