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Fifth of hikikomori cases among working-age people attributed to pressures unleashed by pandemicAlmost 1.5 million people of working age in Japan are living as social recluses, according to a government survey, with about a fifth of cases attributed to…
Project aims to roll out cheap, easy-to-use technology across the globe to spot emergence of any new health threatsBritish researchers are developing a groundbreaking technology to monitor genetic changes in respiratory viruses as they circulate round …
Iran’s Health Ministry categorizes 19 cities as ‘red’ or ‘high risk’ on its coronavirus-tracking map, as the number of patients diagnosed with Covid-19 continues to surge countrywide.
Care home residents will be first to receive spring top-up jab as infections in England hit 2023 highMillions of people in England will be offered a Covid booster jab next week, health officials have announced, as recent estimates show infections have …
Department of Health and Social Care in England has removed 269,500 pallets of PPE from its stockThe government has disposed of more than 3bn items of personal protective equipment (PPE) it bought during the pandemic, figures have revealed.An estimated…
Possibility of byelection in Rutherglen and Hamilton West after sanctions recommended for MP who took train in 2020 despite positive test Politics live – latest updatesAn MP who broke Covid rules in the early stages of the pandemic is facing a 30-day s…
Covid-19 has claimed 22 more lives in Iran over the past 24 hours. That’s according to the Iranian health ministrys latest tally on Wednesday.
Bereaved families and unions criticise ‘extraordinarily short’ hearing on Welsh government’s responsePolitics live – latest updatesBereaved families have strongly criticised a proposal by the UK Covid-19 inquiry to set aside only three weeks for its pu…
Former prime minister told audience in Lagos that his fine from police for breaking Covid laws was ‘bizarre’Boris Johnson has made light of his police fine for the Partygate scandal during a speech in Nigeria, joking that he was criminalised for standi…
Exclusive: Wind-down of NHS contact-tracing app part of drive to ‘learn to live’ with coronavirusThe Covid contact-tracing app for England and Wales, which was downloaded 31m times during the course of the pandemic, will be wound down later this week.C…