Coronavirus

The number of people diagnosed with atrial fibrillation (AF) has passed 1.5 million for the first time, putting them at...

The government has set a deadline of the end of June for people to come forward and get either their...

Recent graduates whose education was disrupted by lockdowns require additional coaching and mentoring to develop skills, say Deloitte and PwC.

The percentage of working hours lost to sickness or injury rose to 2.6% in 2022, the highest it has been since 2004.

The decision in early 2021 to delay people’s second Covid-19 jabs saved thousands of lives.

After often fierce debate during the pandemic, a consensus emerged that Covid-19 is predominantly transmitted through the air. But new...

Care home staff often worked extra hours without extra pay during the pandemic, new research has found.

Further changes to the UK’s Covid-19 testing regime in health and social care have come into force this month (April)...

A report finds that many workers with long Covid have experienced unfair treatment at work, including bullying and redundancy.

People with long Covid can experience potentially serious gastrointestinal symptoms, such as constipation and diarrhoea.

People’s general mental health and anxiety hardly deteriorated at all during the pandemic, surprising new research has suggested.
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People with symptoms of long Covid are at higher risk of cardiac and lung disease, asthma, blood clots and stroke,...

Ethnic minority groups experienced higher rates of severe illness and death during the Covid-19 pandemic because of their greater risk...

The extreme fatigue and 'brain fog' that people with long Covid can experience may be down to the virus causing changes in the brain structure.

People from ethnic minority backgrounds are no longer significantly more likely to die of Covid, finds the Office for National Statistics.