The Ghosts of Variants Past may bring comfort amid omicron gloom

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Which, as tradition dictates, heralds the advent of a new Covid variant that threatens to slam the door on…

The economy might need an omicron bailout – but it must be more targeted

Next, fewer soft loans. The Treasury doled out billions in bounceback loans, and even more in rates rebates, and even invested in start-ups directly through the Future…

The new Covid travel rules – from testing to quarantine requirements

In a blow to international travel, 10 countries have now been added to the previously empty red list.  Arrivals from South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Zimbabwe, Eswatini (formerly…

Monday morning UK news briefing: Omicron schools ‘chaos’

In response to omicron – which it is feared could evade vaccines – the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation is on course to approve booster jabs…

Omicron Covid variant Q&A: How the symptoms differ and what protection vaccines offer

How will I know if I have the omicron variant? All contacts of new variant cases will be told to self-isolate, regardless of whether or not they…

Take a Covid test every time you meet someone from another household, says Nicola Sturgeon

With case numbers expected to rise in the coming days, Ms Sturgeon said she “fervently” hoped she would have “a normal Christmas with my family” and was…

Omicron could risk a ‘normal Christmas’, says Nicola Sturgeon

“That does not mean to say that I want to be in a position of imposing these kinds of protections again.” She again urged the public to…

Covid Booster jabs to be offered to all adults in bid to beat omicron

On Saturday Boris Johnson said: “We don’t yet exactly know how effective our vaccines will be against omicron, but we have good reasons for believing they will…