The Latest Breaking News from Covid-19

FBI chief’s endorsement of Covid lab leak theory highlights the tussle between hawks and doves within the administration

The former Health Secretary has been accused of rejecting advice to give Covid tests to all residents going into care homes during the height of the pandemic

Letter: It seems we do not want to learn the lessons from Covid, says Jabeer Butt of the Race Equality Foundation

FBI director, US Department of Energy say virus originated in a lab, but other US officials say there’s no consensus.

London teenager Ismail Mohammed died a week after lockdown at King's College Hospital - and an inquest has now heard the positioning of a tube in his throat may have contributed to his death

The parents had over 90 takeaways in the month before their daughter's death

Aotearoa Art Fair 2023 opens today in a city on a post Te Matatini high, but still reeling from the cyclone blues. Hamish Coney recommends a restorative trip to the Cloud on Tāmaki’s waterfront to catch the mahi toi of more than 180 artists from Aotearoa, Australia and beyond.

Before we begin, I ought to declare an interest: I have for many years defended Matt Hancock. As health secretary, he made significant errors in his handling of the pandemic, not least the way in which Covid was allowed to spread into residential care homes in the spring of 2020.…

Sunak urges people not to focus on ‘piecemeal bits of information’ and to let the inquiry ‘get on with the job’