UKHSA figures showed the admission rate for patients testing positive for Covid XEC stood at 4.5 per 100,000 people in the week to October 6 – up from 3.7 a week earlier. The North East has seen the ...

Covid hospitalisations have risen by nearly a fifth in a week, raising concerns that the new dominant LP.8.1 variant may be driving a new wave of the virus. The number of people admitted to hospital ...

A new strain of Covid, with a unique symptom, is circulating in the UK, accounting for a high proportion of cases in England. The new strain, called Stratus, has two variants, XFG and XFG.3, with some ...

Infants and children with underlying health conditions and children from socially deprived areas and/or ethnically minoritised backgrounds are the most vulnerable in England to hospitalisation due to ...

Rising Covid cases has led to a surge in the number of people seeking private tests as fewer people are entitled to NHS jabs this winter. The UK’s largest online chemist told The i Paper it has ...

A new strain of Covid, with a unique symptom, is circulating in the UK, accounting for a high proportion of cases in England. The new strain, called Stratus, has two variants, XFG and XFG.3, with ...

The spread of COVID-19 continues in Britain with new strains still taking the lives of up to 200 people a week in England alone. Moreover, an estimated up to 2 million people are suffering from Long ...

Two health boards in Wales have said they are seeing "really high demand" in recent days. Less than two weeks ago people were waiting over 16 hours to be seen by a doctor at Prince Charles Hospital in ...

The United Kingdom did “too little, too late,” in its early response to the coronavirus pandemic, leading to thousands of more deaths, the head of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry said as its latest findings ...

Booster vaccines reduced the risk of COVID‑19–related hospitalization and death, according to a new study of over 3 million adults who had the autumn 2022 vaccine in England. The research led by the ...