Covid-19

Have you been paying attention to The Week’s news?

Brexit and Covid-19 among explanations as festive supply chain blame game begins

Increasing number of Brits are complaining of ‘chainsaw’ throats and dripping noses

Group of 26 global experts tasked with reviving stalled inquiry

Your digest of analysis from the British and international press

Coronavirus deaths have fallen in the region’s ‘Covid capital’ - but Britain may be facing tough winter

‘Groupthink’ hampered effective pandemic response, suggests new report

Proportion of schoolchildren reporting discrepancy in results has almost doubled

England’s Covid jab programme for 12 to 15-year-olds has fallen behind Scotland’s

Why is the UN worried about a supertanker in Yemen? Will strikes cause a streaming video shortage? And what next for the ‘zero-Covid’ success stories?…

The often painful condition could be caused by the body’s immune response when fighting off Covid-19

Leaked 2018 grant proposal fuels theory that Covid-19 was created in lab

Analysis of UK death registration data suggests very few people have died as direct result of Covid jab

Staffing issues are part of transition to a new post-Brexit economy, says government

Your digest of analysis from the British and international press

Pre-departure tests axed for fully vaccinated arrivals from non-red-list countries

Residents will be allowed to travel abroad after 80% of their home state has been vaccinated

Britons facing re-run of 1970s shortages but ‘there is nothing Austin Powers-like about this time machine’

Downing Street says rules will introduced if NHS comes under “unsustainable pressure”

1.6m workers were still being supported by the scheme in July 

Downing Street accused of failing to prepare for pandemic and subsequent national disruptions

Preliminary findings indicate virus was spread between different species via ‘natural spillover’ events

Study shows surgical masks are more effective than cloth but are N95 and FFP2 the ones to have?

Scientists at Imperial College are investigating how the virus could be reprogramming our immune system

On-trial jab may offer better protection against new strains of coronavirus

Covid jabs-sharing scheme set to miss 2021 target for sending urgently needed doses to poorer countries

Expert calls for ‘plausible’ link between the vaccines and menstrual changes to be investigated

Have you been paying attention to The Week’s news?

Pfizer-BioNTech recommended as third shot for all over-50s in the UK

UK government’s coronavirus ‘plan B’ could see proof of vaccination become mandatory

Cases of heart inflammation reported ‘very rarely’ after coronavirus jabs

Narendra Modi facing calls from Joe Biden to provide much-needed jabs to developing countries

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster has been tasked with fixing Britain’s supply chain issues

Powers to enforce the ‘last resort’ measure will stay on the statute book