Lockdowns and new health habits help number of flu sufferers fall to 130-year low

The number of people suffering from the flu in England has plunged by more than 95% to levels not seen for 130 years.

‘The battle of our lives’: New variant blamed for surge in coronavirus deaths in Los Angeles

Scientists in Los Angeles searching for signs that the UK COVID variant had crossed into the US have stumbled on a different one that appears to have been home grown in California - fuelling...

Captain Sir Tom Moore in hospital with coronavirus

Captain Sir Tom Moore, the Second World War veteran who was knighted after raising millions of pounds for the NHS during the UK's first lockdown, has been admitted to hospital with coronavirus.

‘The battle of our lives’: New variant blamed for surge in coronavirus deaths in Los Angeles

Scientists in Los Angeles searching for signs that the UK COVID variant had crossed into the US have stumbled on a different one that appears to have been home grown in California - fuelling...

UK reports another 587 COVID deaths – as vaccine doses rise by more than 600,000 for first time

Another 587 people have died with coronavirus in the UK, according to government figures - while the number of people to receive a vaccine dose has climbed above 600,000 in a single day for...

Portugal to send COVID patients to Austria as infections surge leaves hospital ICUs full

Germany's military is to send medical staff to Portugal, where hospital intensive care units are so full due to a surge in coronavirus infections that patients are to be sent hundreds of miles to...

Portugal to send COVID patients to Austria as infections surge leaves hospital ICUs full

Germany's military is to send medical staff to Portugal, where hospital intensive care units are so full due to a surge in coronavirus infections that patients are to be sent hundreds of miles to...

Irish PM says EU was ‘blindsided’ by vaccine row and Brexit border arrangement became ‘collateral damage’

Northern Ireland's post-Brexit border arrangements became "collateral damage" in the EU's "nasty row" over COVID vaccines, Ireland's prime minister has said.