The Latest Breaking News from UK Health Security Agency

Immigration minister Robert Jenrick said reports of diphtheria at the Manston processing centre had been "exaggerated" but UK Health Security Agency said there has been a spike

In late October, the UK Health Security Agency assigned variant designations to two new omicron “grandchildren”: BQ.1 and XBB. This means they will be monitored by health authorities, but are not at this stage regarded as variants of concern.

Research led by the UK Health Security Agency said the findings confirm that deaths from Covid-19 were ‘rare’ among children.

Our region has the most hospital admissions due to Covid-19 in the country.

Children aged two to three may have little natural immunity to flu and "can become severely ill", UK Health Security Agency consultant epidemiologist Dr Conall Watson has warned

Asking people to isolate themselves if have symptoms will not prevent many infections

But latest data points to an increase among secondary school aged children

Exclusive: Prof Dame Jenny Harries warns of dangers to food security, flooding and insect-borne diseases

More than 10 million people are expected to have received their Covid autumn booster in England by Monday

One in 30 people in England and one in 25 in Wales infected, with mixed picture across ages and regions

Everybody over 50 is invited for a winter coronavirus jab but not everybody will get the new dual/bivalent vaccines that target multiple strains