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“The majority of scientific opinion in this country is still firmly of the view that there will be another wave of Covid at some stage this year and so we must as far as possible learn to live with this disease,” he told a news briefing on Tuesday. The PM …

Seemingly unaware she had made a string of comparatively insensitive comments herself just the previous year – and worse, tacitly supporting ex-president Donald Trump while doing so – McCain was forced to eat her words on Monday, supplementing her prior ‘smugnorant’ commentary with the line “STOP ASIAN HATE” and a bundle …

There’s a sense of some relief in the UK that the Covid-19 year of lockdowns, illness and industrial-scale death tolls that have seen our health care services overwhelmed may finally be coming to an end.   Even a Tory-hating cynic like me has to grudgingly admit that the country’s vaccination programme …

Israel is “the first country in the world to emerge from corona,” Netanyahu insisted in an interview with Fox News on Thursday. “Look, I don’t think we’re coming out completely. We’re going to have to wear a mask for some time. But we’re behind it.” When asked on Friday to …

The CoviVac vaccine received national approval in Russia on February 20. The first batch of doses is expected to be available to the public in mid-March, according to the government. The vaccine is based on the most traditional technology that has been around for a long time and is widely …

The study, conducted by The Levada Centre, was published on Monday and found that more than half of 1,600 participants living in the country aren’t afraid of becoming infected, the highest percentage of people holding such a view since the pandemic began in February. At the same time, despite colossal efforts to …

Zahawi, who is responsible for the vaccination programme, said vaccinations in the country “are really beginning to ramp up”, with 200,000 jabs a day currently being offered. “In the top four categories in the UK, there are 15 million people. In England [alone], it’s about 12 million people, so we …

London is at serious risk of seeing its healthcare system completely overwhelmed by the flow of coronavirus patients, Khan warned on Friday, as he announced the drastic measure. Previous “major incidents” have been declared over large-scale emergencies, such as the Grenfell Tower fire or terrorist attacks at Westminster and London …

Researchers used an advanced screening technique on 170 hospitalized patients to detect “autoantibodies” that inflict collateral damage on the patient by attacking their own organs and immune system as opposed to targeting the virus.  They compared the antibodies to those who had milder or asymptomatic infections, as well as those …

Set in the rural beauty of Staffordshire, in an arboretum of some 30,000 trees and sweeping lawns, its Homeric figures celebrate determination and sacrifice. The names of more than 16,000 British servicemen and women are listed. The literature says they “died in operational theatre or were targeted by terrorists”. On …