‘Seven in 10’ people in England have had Covid at least once
Prof James Naismith, the director of the Rosalind Franklin Institute, said: “These numbers are an underestimate of where we are now, due to the very high prevalence…
Lone wolf could start worse pandemic than Covid, warns Lord Rees
A lone fanatic empowered by modern technology could engineer a pandemic worse than Covid, a leading scientist has warned. Martin Rees, who is the Astronomer Royal and…
Two-thirds of Africans have had Covid-19, report finds
More than two-thirds of the 1.4 billion people in Africa have had Covid-19, according to a WHO report which illustrates the futility of referring to the 11.5…
How South Korea can teach the world to live with Covid
Hong Kong had experienced an almost identical Omicron outbreak in January to New Zealand, said Professor Michael Baker, an epidemiologist at the University of Otago, but there…
The pandemic has taught us the value of the memorial
I count myself blessed that, thanks to the flexibility and humanity of the nursing home staff, I was able to keep the vigil and be with my…
Millions more placed in lockdown to curb China’s largest Covid outbreak yet
Elsewhere in China, tens of millions of people are under different forms of lockdown. The city of Tangshan east of Beijing banned traffic for 24 hours on…
Julie Manet, the orphan raised by the impressionists
As a child, Julie Manet – the only daughter of the impressionist painter Berthe Morisot and the sole niece of Édouard Manet – counted Renoir, Degas, Pissarro…
‘Few in Hong Kong worry about catching Covid… they fear the bureaucratic nightmare of quarantine’
For the last three months, Dr Cowling and other public health experts have warned of the risks of the city’s eradication approach, and urged action to increase…
Huanan market is back at the centre of the Covid origins debate – can we stop the next spillover?
The same team’s second paper uses new evolutionary analysis, combined with the case reports, to narrow down the most likely date of SARS-COV-2 emergence in Wuhan to…
Are Africa’s Covid vaccine targets still fit for purpose?
Because of widespread rage across Africa against vaccine inequality, the subjects of vaccine hesitancy and vaccine targets have become highly contentious subjects. This was seen clearly at…
The pandemic has left London a shadow of its former self
Instead the world locked down. We have lived through the pandemic in Islamabad where I cover Pakistan and Afghanistan for The Telegraph. Engrossed in our daily lives…
Without the vaccines it needs, Africa can only dream of ending Covid rules
Opinion is divided on the decision to end most Covid-19 rules in England. After all, measures soon to be removed, most notably ending mandatory self-isolation, have broken…
Sid Meier interview: ‘Before Civilization, strategy was a dirty word in gaming’
A few days before his birthday, it is difficult to tell whether Sid Meier is about to turn 68 or 16. The Canadian-American video game programmer and…
The pandemic is over, but DIY testing could be here to stay
Squeezing droplets of fluid onto little white cassettes has become a fact of life for most since the mass rollout of lateral flow tests a year ago:…
Revealed: How HRT may prevent you from dying of Covid
Hormone replacement therapy may protect older women from dying of Covid, a study suggests. Swedish and Finnish researchers at the University of Umea and the U1niversity of…
Lassa fever victim dies in Bedfordshire hospital
A person has died from Lassa fever in Bedfordshire, the UK Health Security Agency has announced, after contracting the haemorrhagic virus in West Africa. The person, one…
War, epidemics and society in collapse – why 1922 looks curiously familiar
It was also, perhaps most importantly of all, the birth of radio. The BBC and Radio Moscow made their first broadcasts in 1922 and 500 radio stations…
The courts have finally debunked this Covid ‘corruption’ controversy
Ambulance-chasing lawyers strike again! Unlike the usual type, to all appearances they are helping doctors and nurses. Along they run, with their writs and their letters, calling…
How the surge of the omicron variant caught the NHS off guard
There are two types of healthcare that senior doctors and Whitehall officials like to talk about: health as it relates to each of us as individuals, and…
We are playing whack-a-mole with variants – and the virus is winning
As we begin year three of the Covid-19 pandemic, hunkering down again to survive the viral blizzard that Omicron has brought, it is painfully clear that we…
Omicron could overwhelm Indian hospitals within weeks, doctors warn
Most were suffering from a cough, cold and a fever which subsided after a few days, giving way to lethargy, weakness and a headache. Dr Baid’s observation…
Patients with omicron variant less likely to end up in hospital, South African study shows
The R rate in South Africa’s omicron epicentre has dropped below 1, as a major academic study indicated that the new Covid-19 variant may have led to…
Taiwan’s ‘zero-Covid’ strategy: How much longer can it keep out variants?
Back in Taiwan, debate is picking up about the way forward. Stacy Chang, who flits between New York and Taipei for business reasons, said she would like…
‘We’ve accidentally become a nuclear family – and I hate it’
They say there’s no use crying over spilt milk, but there is when you’re clearing away upturned cereal bowls so the kitchen table can be transformed into…
Reward the sharing of Covid data with solidarity, not solitary confinement
The recent discovery of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant was an unwelcome – though entirely predictable – development in the Covid-19 pandemic. No one should have been surprised…