The Latest Breaking News from Pandemic

Lord Bethell says ‘there was an idea at one moment that we might have to ask the public to exterminate all the cats in Britain’

The former health minister said officials were ‘unclear’ about the role of domestic pets in spreading the disease

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

An extraordinary war of words has erupted over events at the centre of government during the Covid pandemic after more than 100,000 of Matt Hancock’s Whatsapp messages were leaked.

Editorial: Selective leaks for partisan ends do not tell the whole story, but enough is already known to condemn the former health secretary

Customers were encouraged to take vouchers rather than refunds when flights were cancelled - but many are yet to use them

Four New York City ambulance workers who said they were disciplined for speaking to the media during the harrowing, early months of the COVID-19 pandemic have reached a settlement in their free speech lawsuit against the fire department and the city

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.

A new study has found support for the government playing a role in the daily lives of Australians has fallen since the pandemic.

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.…