Coronavirus

Kremlin confirms reports Donald Trump sent Vladimir Putin Covid tests

The Kremlin has confirmed that Donald Trump sent Vladimir Putin Covid tests when they were scarce during the early stages of the pandemic, as reported this week in a...

Boris Johnson hits out at ‘greedy’ Keir Starmer over freebies

Keir Starmer’s decision to accept clothing freebies “looks greedy”, according to Boris Johnson.The former prime minister criticised his...

Severe Covid infections can inflame brain’s ‘control centre’, research says

Severe Covid infections can drive inflammation in the brain’s “control centre”, researchers say, leading to damage that may...

Senior Tories cast doubt over Boris Johnson’s plan to ‘invade the Netherlands’

Senior Tories have cast doubt on Boris Johnson’s claim that he seriously considered invading the Netherlands to seize...

Covid, canal raids and May’s nostrils: six key takeaways from Boris Johnson’s memoir

Planning military incursions into the Netherlands, likening himself to ancient Greeks and comparing Keir Starmer to castrated bulls:...

Tory health reforms left UK open to Covid calamity, says top doctor’s report

Britain was hit far harder by the Covid-19 pandemic than other developed countries because the NHS had been “seriously weakened” by disastrous government policies...

‘They’re about two years behind’: fears for children born during lockdown as they start at school

Babies born in 2020 started life in the strange world of lockdown in a small bubble of people with faces hidden behind masks. Social...

US repeating Covid mistakes with bird flu as spread raises alarm, experts say

The US is making the same mistakes with the H5N1 bird flu virus as with Covid, even as the highly pathogenic avian influenza continues...

Mark Zuckerberg says White House ‘pressured’ Facebook to censor Covid-19 content

The Meta boss, Mark Zuckerberg, has said he regrets bowing to what he claims was pressure from the US government to censor posts about...