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One of the government's scientific advisers has said he would have liked ministers to have acted "a week or two weeks earlier" in the virus pandemic. Sir Ian Boyd, who sits on the Sage scientific advisory group, said "it would have made quite a big difference" to the death rate.more

A coronavirus test that can give results in 20 minutes is being trialled, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.more

The total coronavirus death toll in the UK has risen by 338 to 36,042 while the number of confirmed cases passed a quarter of a million.more

A top U.S. scientist said on Wednesday that governments should not count on a successful vaccine against COVID-19 being developed anytime soon when deciding whether to ease restrictions imposed to curb the pandemic.more

Police said they 'ran out of tickets' as people abandoned their cars in a desperate bid to make it to the beach on the hottest day of the year.more

Superdrug has become the first high street retailer to sell a test for Covid-19 antibodies.more

Global coronavirus cases surpassed 5 million on Wednesday, with Latin America overtaking the United States and Europe in the past week to report the largest portion of new daily cases globally.more

Up to 1,500 primary schools in England are expected to remain closed on 1 June after a rebellion by at least 18 councils forced the government to say it had no plans to sanction them.more

Before June 1, a program will be launched in the UK to track 10,000 contacts every day. people infected with coronavirus - Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced today.more

From today in the UK, as well as in all EU countries, it is prohibited to sell menthol and flavored capsule cigarettes. New regulations were introduced under the EU tobacco directive, which aims to slowly eliminate tobacco addiction from society.more

Tom Moore, a century-old war veteran who has raised nearly £ 33 million for the NHS, British Public Health Service, will be knighted, it was announced yesterday evening.more

In Ireland, 16 people died of coronavirus last day and 51 new infections were detected, the lowest number in more than two months, the Ministry of Health said yesterday evening.more

The UK could be on the brink of a mental health crisis as millions of Brits suffer the effects of lockdown.more

Moderna Labs said that all 45 of its test patients are producing antibodies that fight the disease, and that the virus was killed in eight of the 45 patients.more

Brazil has become the country with the third-highest number of confirmed coronavirus infections in the world, after registering a total of more than 250,000 cases. Only the US and Russia have recorded more infections.more

Health officials have confirmed a further four deaths of patients diagnosed with Covid-19 and 88 new cases of the disease in Ireland.more

The number of people who have died in the United Kingdom after testing positive for COVID-19 rose by 160 to 34,796, the health department said on Twitter on Monday.more

Losing your sense of taste or smell is now officially listed as a symptom of coronavirus and anyone suffering must self-isolate for seven days.more

The UK's consumer watchdog has asked the government to bring in emergency laws to stop retailers profiteering during the coronavirus pandemic.more

The European Union may give an initial green light in the coming days for sale of the drug remdesivir as a COVID-19 treatment, the head of its medicines agency said on Monday, fast-tracking the drug to market amid tight global competition for resources.more

From today in Poland, restaurants, cafes, bars, hair and beauty salons are again open to customers. As the Polish Health Minister Łukasz Szumowski pointed out, Poland is still far from the end of the epidemic, but "maybe we have a hole in its course".more

In quarantine, we gave our lungs a break; demand from Germans and Ukrainians decreased, but Poles also less often used cigarettes - the Polish daily "Dziennik Gazeta Prawna" reports.more

More than one million self-employed people whose businesses are affected by coronavirus have applied for government grants.more

The Polish Ministry of Health informed about 272 new cases of coronavirus in Poland - including 180 in Silesia - and about 10 people who died. In total, 18,529 people have been confirmed to have been infected, of which 925 have died and 7,451 patients have recovered.more

The inventor and entrepreneur James Dyson with a wealth of 16.2 billion pounds is the richest man in the UK, but because of the epidemic, the richest possession has diminished, according to an annual Sunday Times ranking published yesterday.more