COVID-19 Updates
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Kemi Badenoch faces backlash after comments on ‘excessive’ maternity pay – as it happened
Conservative leadership contenders Jenrick, Cleverly and Tugendhat reject rival’s comments, while Rosie Duffield criticises Keir Starmer Q: Do you agree with Kemi Badenoch that some cultures are less valid than…
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Senior Tories cast doubt over Boris Johnson’s plan to ‘invade the Netherlands’
Former prime minister’s claims about wanting to seize Covid vaccines being held in the EU ‘may have been a joke’ Senior Tories have cast doubt on Boris Johnson’s claim that…
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Covid, canal raids and May’s nostrils: six key takeaways from Boris Johnson’s memoir
Former PM likens Keir Starmer to ‘a bullock having a thermometer unexpectedly shoved in its rectum’ in Unleashed Planning military incursions into the Netherlands, likening himself to ancient Greeks and…
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Boris Johnson: we considered ‘aquatic raid’ on Netherlands to seize Covid vaccine
Former prime minister admits in extract from forthcoming book that he discussed possible military operation at height of pandemic Boris Johnson considered an “aquatic raid” on a Dutch warehouse to…
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Future pandemic as big as Covid is inevitable, says Whitty
England’s chief medical officer also tells inquiry that UK’s low level of intensive care provision is a political decision Another pandemic as big as the Covid crisis that killed 7…
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Covid on the rise as experts say England has ‘capitulated’ to the virus
Immunologists push for increase in testing and more widespread vaccine booster rollout as new variant, XEC, emerges Covid is on the rise in England, and experts have warned that more…
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Lack of ICU capacity was ‘political choice’, Chris Whitty tells Covid inquiry – as it happened
Chief medical officer tells Covid inquiry that UK had ‘very low’ capacity compared with other wealthy countries. This live blog is closed Elon Musk has responded to a post on…
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Doctor in tears at Covid inquiry says what NHS staff saw was ‘indescribable’
Prof Kevin Fong, who was on shift during 7/7 bombings, says height of pandemic was like a ‘terrorist attack every day’ A senior doctor repeatedly broke down in tears as…
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Mental health overtakes cancer and obesity as Britons’ biggest health worry
Ipsos survey asked people in 31 countries what they thought of their health and healthcare Mental health has overtaken cancer and obesity as the health problem most Britons worry about,…
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‘You feel omnipresent’: bringing city care to India’s country hospitals
With no intensive care available in remote areas, many patients died on their way to city hospitals. Now rural medics are using tele-ICU systems to save lives • Photographs by…