Regularly drinking red wine can reduce the risk of catching Covid, according to new research.
People who have more than five glasses each week had a 17 per cent lower risk of catching the virus.
The research comes from figures from the British database UK Biobank, which were analysed at Shenzhen Kangning Hospital, China.
People who drink beer and cider had almost a 28 per cent higher chance of catching the virus, and it didn't matter how much they consumed.
Elsewhere, Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab has urged NHS staff who have not had the Covid-19 vaccine to do so before the deadline next month.
Mr Raab played down suggestions the deadline could be delayed, saying the service had greater “resilience” if staff were forced to leave because they would not get vaccinated.
“Nine out of 10 NHS staff have now come forward and had their vaccine. That is critically important,” he told the BBC’s Sunday Morning programme.
“I do think that we continue to call for those (who are unvaccinated) to come forward to be boosted or vaccinated before the deadline but I think ultimately we have to make sure that we don’t have people putting patients at risk if they are not vaccinated.
“The deadline is there to protect the most vulnerable in our hospitals but we have got the resilience because we have got nearly 5,000 more doctors, nearly 11,000 more nurses than we did in 2020.”
