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STAYCATIONS within Scotland may still be possible this summer as coronavirus restrictions ease over the coming months, a public health expert has…

A leading Scottish public health expert says he is very optimistic about the summer - as the number of people in Fife getting the coronavirus vaccine reaches 37,000.

You could catch South Africa variant even if you have had Covid before "If someone in the UK has been infected with Sars-CoV-2 and become unwell with Covid-19 in the past, it might be potentially, if they come into contact with this variant, they may become unwell again." Updated The video will auto-play soon8Cancel Play now Sign up to the Hull Live newsletter for daily updates and breaking newsInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign up here! When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommenda...

Poor government communication, flip-flopping on rules and the spread of disinformation are all to blame, experts say

There was a “system failure” in the UK’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, a public health expert has said. Professor Linda Bauld said the UK was underprepared for a virus like Covid-19, and Europe failed to learn from how south-east Asian countries responded to the pandemic. She said some of the decisions made in the UK “directly contributed” to the second wave, as she described the failure to ramp up contact tracing in March as a “fundamental mistake”. Prof Bauld, professor of public health at the University of Edinburgh, was speaking after the number of UK coronavirus dea...