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The first lockdown, introduced in spring 2020 in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, saved 1,700 lives in England and Wales, according to a new study reported by the Daily Telegraph. It estimated that the benefits of the policy were "a drop in the bucket compared to the shocking side costs".more

The UK was hugely unprepared for the pandemic because of years of austerity, according to a new report.more

The European Commission has a problem with transparency, because it announced the renegotiation of the Covid-19 vaccine contract with Pfizer, but it did so in such a way that more questions than answers remain, Politico assessed today.more

The Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) notified the approval of the oral antiviral drug Paxlovid on Thursday. These are tablets for the treatment of mild to moderate cases of Covid-19 in adults.more

The pandemic is still going on because the threat of the virus has not passed. It's not as good as we thought. For example, in Japan, the United States, and Vietnam, the number of infected people increased sharply, said virologist Prof. Agnieszka Szuster-Ciesielska.more

"It was my biggest mistake," said King Willem-Alexander, assessing his holiday in Greece at the height of the 2020 coronavirus pandemic.more

After three years, Fang Bin, a Chinese citizen journalist who reported on social media about the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak in the city of Wuhan and was detained by PRC authorities, CNN reported today, citing an interview with a family member of the journalist.more

On May 11, Covid-19 vaccination requirements for foreign travelers, federal employees and health care workers will cease, the White House announced yesterday. On the same day, the pandemic state of emergency will expire.more

The Covid-19 coronavirus will remain, but the world is starting to recover from the extraordinary phase of the pandemic, said the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.more

A new strain of Covid, believed by scientists to be "the most contagious yet", has been detected in the UK. The Arcturus mutation has previously led to the reintroduction of many restrictions in India, including the mandatory covering of the mouth and nose.more

Using several states as examples, U.S. experts showed that in those regions where a smaller percentage of the adult population was vaccinated, there were more hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19.more

A new vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus has been approved for use by the European Commission. It is the first bivalent (binary) vaccine with recombinant protein against COVID-19 to be approved in the European Union.more

The UK government has received 334 claims for Covid jab deaths, according to new data from the NHS Business Services Authority. Overall, most claims for harm caused by jabs were for AstraZeneca, then Pfizer, then Moderna.more

On June 10, a satellite will send the text of Pope Francis' prayer for the cessation of the pandemic into space. The prayer was delivered by the Pope three years ago, when he stood alone in an empty St. Peter's Square. The Spei satellite will be launched from California.more

Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, testifying under oath before the House of Commons Committee on Privileges, denied that he had lied about "Partygate", i.e. illegal parties at Downing Street during Covid-19 restrictions.more

Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has admitted he misled MPs about illegal parties held in his office during Covid-19 restrictions, but said he did not intend to defraud members of the House of Commons.more

US President Joe Biden has signed into law a bill that requires declassification of information related to the origin of the coronavirus, Reuters reported. The White House said it will continue to review all classified information regarding the origin of the disease, with potential ties to the Wuhan Institute of Virology listed.more

Advisors to the World Health Organization have urged China to release all information related to the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic after new findings were briefly shared on an international database used to track pathogensmore

Three million people who applied for a driving licence during the worst of the pandemic experienced major delays, a report has found. Some applicants lost jobs or income, and suffered social isolation and mental health problems, parliament's Public Accounts Committee said.more

Hospitals in Italy's Lombardy region are empty of intensive care units for people infected with the coronavirus for the first time since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic more than three years ago, the head of the local health department Guido Bertolaso reported yesterday.more

UK visitor attractions are suffering from "long Covid" due to fewer tourists travelling from abroad, an industry body has warned. more

I am confident that in 2023 we will be able to declare that the Covid-19 pandemic is over and no longer a threat to public health on a global scale.more

Another, this time spring vaccination against COVID-19 should be offered to people aged at least 75, emphasize British scientists from the government's Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation. It is supposed to protect against the SARS-CoV-2 virus in the summer.more

Reports of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus leak from a Chinese laboratory are sensationalism or political friction between the United States and China. It seems to me that this is drawing the line between the superpowers, said virologist Prof. Agnieszka Szuster-Ciesielska.more

In December 2020, then-British Health Minister Matt Hancock discussed with advisers when to reveal the emergence of a new variant of coronavirus in order to scare people with it and force them to comply with the lockdown, The Sunday Telegraph revealed.more