The Latest Breaking News from Patrick Vallance

When the government ended free tests, daily case numbers became less reliable. What else can we look at?

Angus Rose starved himself for more than five weeks outside parliament until Green MP Caroline Lucas arranged compromise

Prime minister had broached issue of asymptomatic transmission publicly with advisers long before testing rules were introduced

Two women, whose fathers died during the first wave, mounted a legal challenge.

Angus Rose, 52, ends 37-day hunger strike as parliamentary group agrees to host briefing by Sir Patrick Vallance

The variant is a "recombinant" form of Covid - meaning it has been brought together from at least two different viral sources, but UKHSA experts say it's too early to know whether it is more transmissible than previous versions

The government has scrapped free Covid tests for most people in England from today - here's the select few groups who can still access them for free and where to buy them in the UK

Speaking at a virtual Royal Society conference, the Government's chief scientific adviser for England also said the "world needs to be ready" for inevitable future pandemics which look very different to the current one

‘It’s also clear this pandemic is not over and we’ve got very high infection rates at the moment,’ Sir Patrick added

Sir Patrick Vallance spoke at a virtual Royal Society conference about coronavirus mutations, inevitable future pandemics and science funding.

He gave the warning at a virtual conference