Impact of coronavirus blamed as life expectancy falls to 78.6 years for boys born between 2020 and 2022, and to 82.6 for girls

From Covid to colds, winter viruses are rife. But even in this post-masking era, we can still be considerate of others, says Opinion deputy editor Katy Guest

Prague Zoo has welcomed the birth of a critically endangered baby western lowland gorilla. Officials don’t know the sex of the baby yet, but zoo director Miroslav Bobek said it was born late on Tuesday 2 January to its mother, Duni. Shortly after t ...

International research indicates giving infants nirsevimab would cause sharp drop in rates of respiratory syncytial virus infection

Health service leader says UK hospitals already face bed shortages and rise in norovirus cases

Norovirus is a very common winter bug that's highly contagious, so best to stock up on tablets, sachets and other bits to help you if you get sick

Huot et al. show that interferon-γ (IFN-γ) regulates the persistence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in bronchoalveolar macrophages from cynomolgus macaques up to 18 months postinfection.

WhatsApp messages shown to the Covid-19 Inquiry have revealed that government advisers referred to Mr Sunak as ‘Dr Death’ during the pandemic

Llama nanobodies may offer an option for treating norovirus, a global health problem for which there are no vaccines or antiviral drugs.

WhatsApp messages shown to the Covid-19 Inquiry have revealed that government advisers referred to Mr Sunak as ‘Dr Death’ during the pandemic

Gasps were heard in the public gallery at the Covid inquiry on Thursday (7 December) as Boris Johnson snapped at a lawyer over coronavirus death toll figures. Pete Weatherby KC, representing Covid Bereaved Families for Justice, asked questions about ...

Boris Johnson is shown all the times he said “let it rip” (the virus) during his second-day grilling at Britain’s Covid inquiry on Thursday (7 December). Hugo Keith KC showed the former prime minister extracts from former Government chief scien ...

Mr Johnson said the elderly have ‘had a good innings’ and should be allowed to catch the virus in order to avoid further restrictions, the inquiry has heard

Former PM denied he made major mistakes during pandemic on first day of his evidence to the inquiry

Boris Johnson did not deny questioning why his government was “destroying everything for people who will die anyway soon” during the coronavirus pandemic in 2020. Giving evidence to the Covid inquiry on Wednesday, 6 December, the former prime min ...

Boris Johnson appeared to choke up as he spoke about the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 at the Covid inquiry on Wednesday, 6 December. The former prime minister gave evidence in which he admitted his government “underestimated” the threat in the ea ...

Technical team unable to view any messages for four months from before arrival of virus to after first lockdown

The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of intercessory prayer performed by a group of spiritual leaders on the health outcomes of hospitalized patients with Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) infection, specifically focusing on mortality an ...

Admissions caused by vomiting and diarrhoea-causing virus almost three times up on same time in 2022