People who are clinically extremely vulnerable to Covid-19 do not need to resume shielding despite the current rise in cases in England, the Prime Minister has said.

22 September 2020

GPs could be delivering a Covid-19 vaccine programme before next summer, as Government experts set out their first time-frame for ‘promising’ late-stage trials.

21 September 2020

Schools concerned about coronavirus are demanding GP notes from parents to say children can attend with common respiratory tract infections such as sore throats, GPs have claimed.

16 September 2020

The UK governments should act now to bring Covid-19 to ‘near elimination’ to avoid a longer lockdown down the line, the BMA has said.

16 September 2020

A second peak of Covid-19 infections is likely or very likely in the next six months, according to doctors and medical students surveyed by the BMA in the run-up to tomorrow’s Annual Representative Meeting.

14 September 2020

Coronavirus rates in England are doubling every seven to eight days, as the reproduction (R) number is now above 1.

11 September 2020

There was a 43% increase in the number of positive Covid-19 cases recorded by NHS Test and Trace in the week from 27 August to 2 September.

10 September 2020

The Government has committed to £210bn in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, having so far spent more than £70bn, the National Audit Office (NAO) has estimated.

09 September 2020

A pilot testing the reliability of a new low-cost saliva Covid test, involving large numbers of GPs and their families, has proved successful, researchers have told Pulse.

09 September 2020

There were at least three times as many suspected cases of Covid-19 during the peak of the pandemic as official figures suggested, with ethnicity playing an even greater role than previously thought, according to a large-scale analysis of GP records.

08 September 2020