All news on the topic: Coronavirus

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Teachers warn kids' attention span 'shorter than ever' since Covid
The poll commissioned by Kapow Primary of 504 primary and early years teachers in schools in England, found 84% agree that primary children's attention span is 'shorter than ever' post-Covid.
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'We loved our honeymoon so much we ditched home to travel full-time'
Kevin and Jennifer Maguire from Andersonstown, Northern Ireland decided to move to Australia after their honeymoon, and now travel the country fulltime with their two children
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What you need to know about the Covid-19 Inquiry amid bitter WhatsApp legal row
Public hearings into the UK's preparedness for the Covid-19 crisis will begin next week, just days after the inquiry became mired in controversy due to a bitter legal dispute over Boris Johnson's WhatsApp messages
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Woman disguises herself as cleaner to see dying mum in hospital
Alexandra Spencer-Jones' mother was admitted in March 2020 and caught Covid, forcing her daughter to work out how to see her when visitors were banned at Darent Valley Hospital
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Family of student dead after 'complication' with COVID vaccine sues government
George Watts Jr collapsed in his family front room and died aged just 24 after responding badly to the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, a coroner found.
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Cancer mum hits back at cruel trolls who mocked her looks
Nail artist Danni Moore, 32, bravely shared photos showing how she had lost her hair and breasts to cancer on social media but some have mocked her for her body
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Fury as ministers threaten to stop Boris Johnson funding over WhatsApp spat
The former PM has caused a huge headache for Rishi Sunak by releasing documents to the Covid Inquiry despite the Government refusing to - and lawyers have reportedly written to him threatening to withdraw his legal support funding
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Rishi Sunak's legal battle with Covid inquiry could cost 'well into six figures'
The Cabinet Office launched a judicial review to block requests from the inquiry chairwoman to hand over unredacted WhatsApp messages between Boris Johnson and officials involved in the crisis
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Millions urged to get Covid booster before it's too late
NHS figures have revealed 3.6million of the 6.6million eligible adults in England have had the booster, while others only have until June 30 to get it
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Boris Johnson fails to hand 16 months of WhatsApps to inquiry from old phone
The former PM was forced to switch phone in April 2021 after it emerged that his personal number had been freely available online for 15 years
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Questions over US coping with next outbreak 'keep disease experts up at night'
Writing for CNN, infectious disease expert at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Dr Kent Sepkowitz, made the dire warning
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Conor McGregor earns rare praise from rival over being highest-paid UFC star
McGregor has never had a particularly good relationship with fellow lightweight contender Justin Gaethje, but he has received a compliment from his rival
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Covid Inquiry 'should probe sick pay system' that 'stopped workers isolating'
The Trades Union Congress called on Baroness Heather Hallett's investigation to look at rules and rates for statutory sick pay, amid claims some workers could not afford to self-isolate
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All you need to know about hMPV as flu-like virus symptoms spike across US
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recorded a spike in human metapneumovirus (hMPV) cases, with flu-like symptoms. Here's all you need to know about the virus
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Boris Johnson hands 'missing' Covid WhatsApp messages to Cabinet Office
The former Prime Minister has handed over unredacted messages and notebooks - and urged Whitehall to give them to Baroness Hallett's Covid-19 Inquiry
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Tory Covid 'cover-up' as MPs insist they 'no longer have' Boris WhatsApps
Grieving relatives of those killed by the virus demanded his WhatsApp texts and notebooks be handed over amid accusations of a bid to obstruct progress
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Red flag symptoms that can mean you have long Covid - as millions suffer
A new study from the National Institutes of Health has found that a loss of sexual desire and capacity, brain fog and dizziness were among the most distinctive symptoms of long Covid
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Next pandemic could be 50 times deadlier than Covid, top scientists warn
American virologist Dr Robert Redfield, who served as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2018 to 2021, feared his grandchildren would be faced with an even bigger crisis
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WHO could gain power to force Britain into lockdown in event of another pandemic
WHO member states would need to take the organisation's advice as 'binding' under new regulations being discussed - but some MPs fear the institution may become a 'controlling authority'
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9 silent killers posing biggest threat to humanity ranked by world's top doctors
The World Health Organization (WHO) has a 'priority' list of diseases which they say pose the greatest public health risk and are being monitored and researched to prepare for the next potential public health emergency
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New travel rules for Brits ahead of summer - from passports to hand luggage
Airlines including easyJet, Ryanair and British Airways have updated hand luggage rules, health insurance in the European Union has recently changed, and post-Brexit passport rules are different
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Most common symptom of Covid found - and it's not losing sense of taste
The most common non-respiratory symptom of Covid across all strains has been revealed by a new study with researchers finding that it is not losing a sense of taste
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Stark warning world 'needs to prepare for disease deadlier than Covid'
World Health Organization chief Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has said that people need to be ready for a virus that is "even deadlier" than Covid which he stated has killed at least 20 million
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'My co-worker accused me of stealing her parking spot - so I got sweet revenge'
A woman who has never liked her 'entitled' co-worker says the final straw came when she started accusing her stealing her parking spot. Fed up with her antics, she decided to take her sweet revenge
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Inside abandoned UK shopping mall with creepy mannequins and crumbling walls
An eerie UK shopping mall has been left completely abandoned ever since the coronavirus lockdown, with haunting mannequins, dilapidated walls and ceilings, and even discarded gun ammo