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Lockdowns and quarantines were introduced during the pandemic to isolate people infected with SARS-CoV-2 from outsiders. However, they did not protect the families of those infected from infection. How many people 'caught' the virus in their own home? Professor Rebecca Tunstall of the Centre for Housing Policy at the University of York set out to answer this question.more

The UK's Medicines and Health Products Regulatory Authority (MHRA) today approved the Covid-19 vaccine, which was developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, for use in children between six months and four years of age.more

The Met Office has warned severe cold weather is set to hit the UK this week, with overnight temperatures plummeting to -6C (21F) in places.more

Primary schoolchildren at risk from a severe form of strep A could be given preventive antibiotics as a blanket measure, in a move described as “rare” by health officials.more

New Zealand authorities have launched a court battle over the custody of an infant whose parents are refusing to undergo life-saving surgery over fears that a blood donor may have been vaccinated against Covid-19, AFP reported.more

More than 2.5 million Italians have fallen ill with influenza since the beginning of autumn, the National Institute of Health Services reported. Such a high number of cases had not been recorded since 2009, when the so-called swine flu raged.more

At least 90 percent of the world's population has some form of immunity to Covid-19, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said yesterday. Despite this, the head of the WHO warned against a decrease in vigilance against the coronavirus.more

Italy is already in the endemic phase of Covid-19, the new Health Minister Orazio Schillaci announced. "Today," he added, "we are betting on citizens' sense of responsibility. The health ministry in Rome has inaugurated a vaccination campaign against both Covid-19 and influenza.more

A Polish national living in Ireland has lost a claim that he was discriminated against by the Department of Health over the requirement to take a Covid-19 test every time he passed through Dublin Airport during the pandemic.more

Paramedics and other ambulance workers across much of England and Wales are likely to go on strike before Christmas to demand pay rises, two trade unions representing them have announced.more

Health and defence officials are drawing up a strategy to tackle a possible wave of industrial action in the health service.more

Half of the free-range poultry grown for Christmas in the UK have died or been culled because of the bird flu epidemic, an industry leader has told MPs.more

With flu cases rising, UK Covid scientists are turning their attention to finding the best life-saving drugs to fight the winter virus. more

We are at the height of the largest and most dangerous outbreak of H5N1 avian influenza to date, which has affected wild and farmed birds and other animal species around the world, experts quoted by BBC News are alarming. The risk to humans is rather low so far, they assure.more

The World Health Organization (WHO) has said it will start using the new term "mpox" as the name for monkey pox and has called on other countries to follow suit. The change in terminology follows complaints that the current name of the disease is racist and stigmatizing.more

Scientists have no doubt about the harmful effects of smog on health. For the fight for clean air, the energy crisis is both an opportunity and a threat, reports today's 'Rzeczpospolita'.more

At least dozens of illegal immigrants who may have had diphtheria have been moved from an overcrowded reception centre in Manston to other locations in the UK without tests to confirm or rule out the disease, 'The Sunday Times' revealed.more

Some of the country’s GP are advising patients requiring urgent hospital care to “get an Uber” or use a relative’s car because of the worst ever delays in the ambulance service in England.more

Prof Andrzej Pławski and Eng Emilia Lis-Tanaś from the Innovative Medical Centre of the Institute of Human Genetics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Poznań have been granted a patent for detecting a genetic predisposition to aggressive breast cancer.more

We are not seeing a particular increase in Covid-19 infections in the European Union thanks to the fact that many people have been vaccinated or have already had coronavirus, but this could suddenly change as we enter the winter months, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) announced at a press briefing yesterday.more

Nurses across the UK will go on strike for the first time over two days in the fortnight before Christmas after ministers rejected their pleas for formal talks over NHS pay. more

The Chinese authorities today reported the highest balance of coronavirus infections since the start of the pandemic. All regions of mainland China are battling outbreaks of infection, and according to analysts, lockdowns are now affecting more than 400 million people and 21.1 per cent of China's GDP.more

Ambulance crews could not respond to almost one in four 999 calls last month – the most ever – because so many were tied up outside A&Es waiting to hand patients over, dramatic new NHS figures show. more

The number of deaths of homeless people in England and Wales has returned to pre-pandemic levels. more

The proportion of young people experiencing mental health issues has nearly doubled in just over a decade, a new report suggests. more