Doctors say the NHS is facing its worse crisis since records began – but it's nothing to do with Covid. Rather, a shortage of care home staff is preventing hospitals from discharging elderly patients, causing a bottleneck.
Why did the Global Virome Project, a well-funded public health initiative set up to investigate the origins of viruses in 2018, fail to investigate the outbreak of COVID-19? Matt Ridley and Presenjit Ray investigate.
The number of people testing positive for Covid per day in the U.K. has fallen by 40% since last week and is now at its lowest since last June.
The UN's food price index is now as high as it was during the 1970s oil crisis, and the World Food Programme has warned that 2022 will be a year of “catastrophic hunger”. Lockdown is one major culprit.
A summary of all the most interesting stories that have appeared about politicians’ efforts to control the virus – and other acts of hubris and folly – not just in Britain, but around the world.
