Covid-19

Five years on from the pandemic, the right’s fake Covid narrative has been turbo-charged into the mainstream | Laura Spinney
Once, we all respectfully listened to what epidemiologists said. We queued up for vaccines, observed distancing lines and confidently asked ...

Bereaved come together to mark five years since Covid-19 pandemic outbreak | Coronavirus
Bereaved families and communities came together in a day of reflection on Sunday to mark five years since the outbreak ...

Covid, five years on: UK ‘still not ready to protect the population’ | Coronavirus
On 9 March 2020, Martin Landray was studying the likely impact of Covid-19 as it started to sweep Britain. What ...

Five years on: Britons among hardest hit by Covid fallout | Coronavirus
Britain performed worse than most other developed nations in its response to the Covid pandemic, according to an Observer analysis ...

When politicians tell us to focus on growth we need to ask: ‘Why, and for whom?’ | Rowan Williams
Five years ago, we were beginning to face the imminent reality of lockdown. We were confronted with an uncertain future ...

Tory peer introduced PPE firm to government after Cameron text, Covid inquiry hears | Covid inquiry
A Conservative peer introduced a company he was involved in to the government to supply PPE after he first contacted ...

Patients with long Covid regain sense of smell and taste with pioneering surgery | Long Covid
Doctors in London have successfully restored a sense of smell and taste in patients who lost it due to long ...

Next boss of NHS England prepares purge of senior leadership team | NHS
The next boss of NHS England is preparing a wide-ranging purge of its senior leadership team as he steers it ...

UK minister said NHS could use Dyson ventilators so they could be ‘sold abroad’ | Covid inquiry
A minister warned a senior official that ventilators might need to be bought from Sir James Dyson “so that he ...

‘We’re losing decades of our life to this illness’: long Covid patients on the fear of being forgotten | Long Covid
On 20 March 2020, Rowan Brown started to feel a tickle at the back of her throat. Over the next ...