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In today’s newsletter: A new Guardian analysis tells us more about exactly who contributed to violence in July and August

Before the COVID pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) had made a list of priority infectious diseases. These were felt to pose a threat to international public health, but where research was still needed to improve their surveillance and diagnosis. In 2018, “disease X” was included, which signified that a…

Americans can once again order COVID-19 tests, without being charged, straight to their homes

Prof Kevin Fong, who was on shift during 7/7 bombings, says height of pandemic was like a ‘terrorist attack every day’

A top doctor broke down in tears as he said that scenes in the unit ‘were like nothing I had ever seen’

Last month, a delegation led by Brendan Crabb, head of the Burnet Institute, a prestigious medical research body, met Anthony Albanese in the prime minister’s parliament house office.

With almost no practical plans for bringing UK culture back to strength after 14 years of ‘violent indifference’, the culture secretary repeated the ‘we love you but there’s no money’ mantra

In the newly-unearthed clip, critics say Sir Keir ‘gave the impression’ of being at his family home in Kentish Town

The Christmas broadcast aired on December 13 2021, the same day new Covid guidance urging people to work from home came into force.