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Coronavirus

  • Children in an English primary school classroom

    Thousands of Covid generation under-fives excluded from schools in England

  • Anne Longfield

    Children in UK will be living in long shadow of Covid for next two decades, inquiry told

    Anne Longfield, England’s former children’s commissioner, said ministers were indifferent to children during lockdown
  • Cold medicine and sick woman drinking hot beverage to get well from flu, fever and virus. Dirty paper towels and tissues on table.

    People may suffer ‘long colds’ more than four weeks after infection, study shows

    Results in the Lancet’s EClinicalMedicine journal found a ‘similar risk’ of long-term symptoms as those with Covid

  • Wetherspoon’s returns to profit for first time since Covid pandemic

  • Disruptive behaviour in English schools worse since Covid, says outgoing Ofsted head

  • Doctors started writing their wills in 2020, UK Covid inquiry told

  • Children were failed by pandemic policies, Covid inquiry told

  • Boris Johnson was ‘flip-flopping’ on decisions during Covid, wrote Vallance

  • Sunak fails to hand WhatsApp messages from time as chancellor to Covid inquiry

  • Scientists whose work enabled mRNA Covid vaccine win medicine Nobel prize

  • UK economy makes stronger recovery from pandemic than first thought

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Explainers & analysis

  • A lateral flow device test

    What’s the state of Covid in the UK – and how is it being tracked?

  • Covid-19 Pop-up Vaccination Clinic in Los Angeles<br>epa09728509 Nurses prepare doses of Covid-19 vaccine at a pop-up vaccination clinic at the St. Bernadette Catholic Church during the coronavirus pandemic in Los Angeles, California, USA, 04 February 2022. EPA/ETIENNE LAURENT

    The new Covid-19 booster shot in the US: what you need to know

    • 3D model of Sars-Cov-2 virus

      Everything you need to know about the new Covid variant – podcast

    • Signs in Slough encourage people to get their Covid jabs in autumn 2022

      Covid: what’s the situation in England, and what should I do if I get it?

    • Covid 19 cells under the microscope.

      As a new variant emerges, is Covid coming back to the UK?

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Opinion

  • Sheena Cruickshank

    Covid is evolving – but the UK is not doing enough to evolve with it

    Sheena Cruickshank
    • Anita Chaudhuri

      Why is no one else worried about being sandwiched between naked people?

      Anita Chaudhuri
    • Peter Lewis

      A fresh take on reality may help us see public debates on the voice and Covid in a clearer light

      Peter Lewis
    • Kathryn Bromwich

      Living with long Covid, I’m terrified of being reinfected with one of the new variants

      Kathryn Bromwich
    • Giorgio Parisi

      Is it TikTok or global crisis? How the world lost its trust in scientists like me

      Giorgio Parisi
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In depth

  • Ryan Hisner sits at his laptop

    Covid hunters: the amateur sleuths tracking the virus and its variants

  • A lone commuter rides a normally packed, San Francisco-bound Bay Area Rapid Transit (Bart) train in 2020. The subway and overground train service has struggled to rebound to pre-pandemic levels, prompting fears of a financial death spiral.

    The last stop: what happens when a US city’s subway starts to die?

    • An illustration of Elon Musk’s head with the top removed to reveal metal workings and cogs

      What makes Elon Musk tick? I spent months following the same people as him to find out who fuels his curious worldview

    • Banksy's Girl With a Pierced Eardrum mural in Bristol, showing the mask it was given in 2020.

      ‘Lessons have been forgotten’: is the UK ready for a new Covid variant?

    • partisansentiment-01

      Does Wile E Coyote explain US voters’ gloom amid buoyant economy?

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Multimedia

  • Guardian Europe: What do migration, climate, Covid, Ukraine and rightwing populism have in common?

  • Matilda Boseley explains the context around these false reports

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    TGA received two hoax reports of children dying from Covid vaccines – vertical video

    Matilda Boseley explains the context around these false reports
  • The former chief medical officer for England issued an emotional apology to the Covid bereaved at a public inquiry into the UK's preparedness. It emerged she had asked for a review following an earlier coronavirus outbreak in Hong Kong but was told 'it won’t come here'. Prof Dame Sally Davies was being cross-examined when she said 'maybe this is the moment to say how sorry I am to the relatives who lost their families'. Close to tears, Davies said: 'It wasn’t just the deaths, it was the way they died. It was horrible. And I heard a lot about it from my daughter on the frontline, as a young doctor in Scotland. It was harrowing and it remains horrible'

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    Dame Sally Davies close to tears as she apologises to Covid bereaved at inquiry – video

    The former chief medical officer for England issued an emotional apology to the Covid bereaved at a public inquiry into the UK's preparedness. It emerged she had asked for a review following an earlier coronavirus outbreak in Hong Kong but was told 'it won’t come here'. Prof Dame Sally Davies was being cross-examined when she said 'maybe this is the moment to say how sorry I am to the relatives who lost their families'. Close to tears, Davies said: 'It wasn’t just the deaths, it was the way they died. It was horrible. And I heard a lot about it from my daughter on the frontline, as a young doctor in Scotland. It was harrowing and it remains horrible'
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