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Boris Johnson’s government blocked a request to fund another 10,000 hospital beds at the height of the Covid pandemic, the chief executive of NHS England has said.

A Covid conspiracy theorist has been sentenced to five years behind bars after encouraging violence against Professor Sir Chris Whitty on social media.

Trial told Thomas Kwan, 53, disguised himself as a nurse and told Patrick O’Hara he was getting a Covid jab

Boris Johnson has revealed that he now believes that the Covid pandemic was the result of a leak from a Chinese laboratory.

Around a third of all public contracts signed by the British government to combat the COVID-19 pandemic skipped standard procurement safeguards with billions going to entities connected to the Conservative Party, claims a comprehensive new report by Transparency International U.K.

Adam Peaty tested positive for Covid shortly after winning silver in his breaststroke final which has put his involvement in the mixed 4x100m medley relays in doubt

UK government deal struck at height of pandemic described as ‘colossal misuse of public funds’

Reports suggest another 11,000 staff could go in the next five years

A research team used an established risk analysis tool called the Grunow-Finke assessment to create a likelihood scale for possible pandemic causes have come to interesting Covid conclusions

The world might not be ready for another ‘devastating pandemic’ with global response to ‘health threats’ waning, according to a bombshell new US intelligence report

Researchers found patients exhibiting symptoms of Covid months after their initial infection often had low levels of iron in their blood

A new study has found that chemicals in e-cigarettes enhance the chance of you catching Covid while a scientist has advised vapers to stop for "the protection of their health"

The 62-year-old man, from Magdeburg in Germany, said that he underwent dozens of vaccines for "private reasons" over the course of 29 months - and had never shown any signs of being infected

Fresh research shows that Covid-19 infections are associated with an increased risk for autoimmune inflammatory rheumatic diseases (AIRDs) including arthritis, gout, and lupus

Residents in Bainbridge, Georgia, a small town of around 14,000, are urging the City Council to block plans by a controversial company called Safer Human Medicine to build a 200-acre monkey farm complex

The huge Covid study of 140,000 Brits found a 'measurable' impact on thinking skills and memory formation that can be detected more than a year after an infection

Chantelle Christian started to experience manic episodes where she would have terrifying hallucinations and her behaviour became more generally more erratic after a condition post-covid

Sharon Collins witnessed first-hand the devastation that took hold in hospitals when her father died after catching coronavirus on a ward, and says ITV's Breathtaking is 'real life'

A new study has found that up to three in every 100 Covid infections last for a month or longer - and that people with the persistent infections are more likely to have Long Covid

NHS doctor Rachel Clarke has shared her thoughts on why the story of the traumatised pandemic medics needs to be told again in new ITV drama series, Breathtaking

As ITV drama Breathtaking shines a light on NHS pressures in response to the coronavirus crisis, The Mirror takes a look at why the virus was so destructive, killing millions across the globe

ITV's new drama Breathtaking brings palliative care doctor Rachel Clarke's first-hand experience of working in the NHS at the start of the Covid pandemic to TV screens

Five-year-old Jean Carlos Martinez Rivero had a myriad of viruses and medical conditions before his untimely death about two months ago, according to the local medical examiner's report

Actress Joanne Froggatt portrays Dr Abbey Henderson in ITV's new drama Breathtaking, and brings to life author and NHS frontline doctor Rachel Clarke's first-hand experience