The first diagnostic test for Long Covid is to launch this month, detecting the Covid spike protein persisting in white blood cells. But can it distinguish it from 'Long Vaccine'?
Business and current affairs magazine the Economist has suggested that instead of treating Covid like the flu, we should start treating the flu like Covid.
Banking corporation HSBC has reintroduced daily testing and masks in its New York office after a rise in reported Covid infections, in an ominous sign that people aren't leaving the 'emergency' Covid measures behind.
When you enter a healthcare facility you could think you had entered a time warp and were back in the bad old days of lockdown 2020: gallons of hand sanitiser, Perspex screens, masked staff and even security guards.
Hundreds of Britons reported injuries from getting tested for Covid, official data show, from nose bleeds and choking to fainting and even death.
The Government's scrapping of free Covid tests combined with an expansion to the NHS list of symptoms and advice to stay at home when unwell will trigger a "free for all" of staff absences, experts have warned.
Children were subjected to all manner of unevidenced and harmful interventions during the pandemic, not least of which was frequent testing. We must now prioritise their recovery and ensure it never happens again.
The Icelandic Government has announced that all restrictions, including all testing and travel restrictions, will be lifted at midnight on Friday, saying it wants to reach herd immunity via infection.
The mass testing of healthy children is “invasive and unevidenced”, causes significant damage to children and needs to stop, scientists and clinicians have told MPs and Peers.
All 54 passengers on the flight were fully vaccinated, masked, tested negative three times, had been in quarantine for two weeks and were put in quarantine with more testing on arrival. Two thirds caught the virus.
