How the danger of coronavirus compares to the risks of everyday life
Department for Transport figures show that, for every billion miles cycled, there are 1,139 serious injuries and 29 deaths. That...
Coronavirus
Genetic analysis of thousands of coronavirus patients may explain huge differences in case severity
The entire genetic code of up to 35,000 coronavirus sufferers will be analysed to find out why some people nearly...
Dementia patients three times more likely to get severe coronavirus, study finds
Professor David Melzer, who led the research team, said: "These initial results suggest that some risky pre-existing diseases in older...
Age UK calls for clarity on what new coronavirus social distancing rules mean for grandparents
After first announcing the changes, the Government was forced to correct even its most senior ministers in their interpretation of...
Wuhan to test entire 11m population as new cases raise fears of second coronavirus wave
Another member of the cluster is an 89-year-old man with a history of hypertension and cerebral infraction, who began experiencing...
Care home deaths account for 40 per cent of UK coronavirus fatalities
Care home deaths now account for 40 per cent of coronavirus fatalities in England and Wales, official data shows, despite...
Coronavirus vaccine ‘may never be found’
Elsewhere researchers at Imperial have developed a candidate which, when injected, will deliver the genetic instructions to muscle cells to...
Coronavirus no longer an epidemic in UK, Oxford study finds, with cases falling below threshold
Overall rates of respiratory infections fell from 20.4 to 3.3 per 10,000 after the lockdown was introduced. "Rates of upper...
The UK professions carrying the highest risk of death from coronavirus
Security guards, taxi drivers and chefs are the workers most likely to die from coronavirus, facing a higher risk even...
Protein may explain why men with heart disease have higher coronavirus risk than women
Men with heart failure appear to have higher concentrations of a protein in their blood that enables coronavirus to infect...
UK-Dutch startup secures funding for instant-result coronavirus test
Portable tests for people infected with coronavirus which take seconds could be just a few months away after an Anglo-Dutch...
Got coronavirus? You must phone friends and family to warn them
People who test positive for Covid-19 will be encouraged to call those they may have infected and ask them to...
Government should not rely on ‘irrelevant’ ‘R’ rate to end coronavirus lockdown, MP warns
Greg Clark MP, the chairman of the science and technology select committee, urged ministers not to rely too heavily on...
How our towns and cities could be permanently changed by coronavirus
People also want to continue the dramatic drop in air pollution, which has fallen 60 per cent in some cities. ...
PM urged to allow gym reopening because exercise is ‘wonder drug’ in coronavirus fight
UKactive, a not-for-profit body for fitness chain, has written to Mr Johnson urging him to take account of plans drawn...
Care home staff may be banned from working in multiple locations amid fears of coronavirus ‘leaks’
As a result, there are concerns that low-paid staff in multiple jobs and agency workers may unwittingly be spreading the...
Care home cases drive up coronavirus reproductive rate, denting hopes of easing lockdown
The 'R' value refers to the number of people who can expect to catch the virus from an infected person....
Coronavirus could be spread by sex, new research shows
The research team said Covid-19 could be seeded to the male reproductive tract, especially where there is local inflammation. "Even...
Sunshine could protect against coronavirus by boosting vitamin D levels, study finds
Previous studies have found a link between low vitamin D levels and susceptibility to acute respiratory tract infections. Dr Lee...
Black people four times more likely to die from coronavirus than white people, ONS figures show
Speaking of the government’s plans to ease the lockdown from next week, Ms Grant added: “It’s especially scary as this...
How the world might change for the better after coronavirus
Global development experts believe that there are three scenarios ahead of us, divided into the good, the bad, and the...
Peers ‘hung out to dry’ by proposed cut in allowance amid coronavirus outbreak
Opening the debate, the Tory leader in the Lords, Baroness Evans of Bowes Park, said the "unprecedented circumstances" caused by...
More than 100,000 people were wrongly included on coronavirus ‘shielding’ list
When the shielding policy was announced in March, ministers said 1.5 million people would be contacted within days and asked to...
Scotland will not recommend NHS coronavirus tracing app until ‘confident that it works’
The NHS contact tracing app will not yet be recommended for use in Scotland, with officials saying they first needed...
how the Isle of Wight is braced for the new NHS coronavirus app
“I think now it’s been explained properly people will embrace it,” says Mrs Herbert, whose school normally teaches 184 pupils...
France’s ‘patient zero’ caught coronavirus in December
Speaking to BFM TV, he said he initially had a dry cough and fever and assumed he had the flu....
Coronavirus antibody testing could result in discrimination at work, ministers warned
He said data from around five weeks ago suggested "something like a 10 per cent antibody positivity in London", with...
