The Latest Breaking News from Covid-19

In a significant step towards reforming Australia’s Reserve Bank, Treasurer Jim Chalmers has stepped outside the bank and outside of Australia to select Andrew Hauser, a British economist, as its new deputy governor.

Early studies hint that a nerve block in the neck could help restore long COVID patients' normal sense of smell, but more research is needed.

First this fall, a new round with COVID-19 shuttered Stephen Colbert’s “The Late Show.”

Sharp rise in hospital admissions among children has been attributed to flu and other 'known' viruses - but experts say more information is needed

Former health secretary’s evidence to the probe revealed he was “despair” about the measures which saw pubs, restaurants and bars closed

Letters: Andrea Dow thinks the bond with school needed to be broken and Dan Thompson says schools must acknowledge what’s happened to rebuild trust. Plus a letter from psychologist Dr Helen Care

Optical fibres, which are thin cylindrical strands of glass, carry info like text, images, voices, videos, etc. Charles Kao predicted their use in telecommunication, for which he won a Nobel Prize in 2009. Light is guided through fibre optic cables using total internal reflection. Transmitter encodes info into optical signals,…

Greater Manchester mayor says Boris Johnson seemed unaware his region had been under tougher rules

A key Covid committee said Manchester should face tougher restrictions because it had not been willing to ‘co-operate’ with the Government.

Mayor was set to issue own advice to Londoners in bid to save lives

Sadiq Khan claimed Boris Johnson had been unaware that other countries had imposed lockdowns in March 2020.