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Scientists and campaigners call for more research into long Covid in children Samuel Lovett © Provided by The Independent Scientists and campaign groups have called for more research into long Covid in children, as uncertainty surrounding the phenomenon continues to grow. The latest data from the Office for National Statistics suggest that 13 per cent of under-11s and nearly 15 per cent of 12- to 16-year-olds are reporting at least one symptom five weeks after being infected with Covid-19. The estimates are drawn from 9,063 respondents of all ages who tested positive for the...

For the sixth consecutive week infections have plummeted worldwide. Our Global Health team looks at what might explain the fall in cases

A zero-Covid strategy is more likely to reduce the emergence of dangerous mutations in the coronavirus, MPs have been told, as questions were raised over the government’s new roadmap out of lockdown. One day after the prime minister, Boris Johnson, insisted there was “no credible route” to eliminating Covid-19 in the UK, experts from New Zealand and Australia – both of which have been heralded for their pandemic response – gave evidence to a...

But the Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said that there is ‘no credible route to a zero-Covid Britain’.

All people arriving into Northern Ireland should be made to isolate in a quarantine centre and the measure should be put in place urgently, a leading expert has said. Independent SAGE member, Professor Martin McKee, has criticised a delay by the Executive to implement strict border measures to stop Covid-19 variants from taking hold in Northern Ireland. And he said he fears that political sensitivities over borders in Northern Ireland may be a driving factor in the refusal to completely close the border that may ultimately result in more Covid-19 cases here. It comes just days after the chief...