Covid-19

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 ...

Rave, games and showers of Coco Pops: a night out at Liverpool’s Bongo’s Bingo | Clubbing
In Liverpool, in a vast warehouse lined with bierkeller trestle tables, each one sardine-packed with people, a woman is dancing. ...

Five years on from the pandemic, how has Covid changed our world? | Stephen Reicher, Rachel Clarke, Rafael Behr, Frances Ryan and others
The cost of pessimistic individualism was measured in tens of thousands of lives Stephen Reicher Professor of psychology at the ...

Covid inquiry to hear evidence about Michelle Mone-linked firm in private | Covid inquiry
The Covid inquiry will hear detailed evidence about the multimillion-pound PPE contracts awarded during the crisis to a company linked ...

Common COVID-19 Symptoms Doctors Are Seeing In Winter 2025
There are many viruses circulating this winter, including COVID-19, which is making people ill across the country. “COVID has continued ...

Can baby bonds reduce childhood poverty? California thinks so | California
During the pandemic, tens of thousands of children in California lost a caregiver due to Covid. Since then, these kids, ...