Defending Eat Out to Help Out – PM's day at Covid inquiry

Close to 20 million people are likely to have died during the last three years, says the WHO.

A doctor used an Apple Watch to aid an elderly woman who suffered a medical emergency on a flight. NHS doctor Rashid Riaz, from Hereford, was travelling by Ryanair from Birmingham to Verona for a skiing holiday. During the journey on 9 January, the woman, in her 70s, experienced shortness of breath, with the cabin…

An inquiry hears the former first minister’s messages were removed during “routine tidying up” of inboxes.

BBC political editor Chris Mason asked Rishi Sunak if the government was challenging the full release of messages between ministers and officials during the pandemic, to the Covid inquiry, because he was worried about something embarrassing him. The PM said: “Not at all”. He said it was “right that we learn the lessons of Covid”…

She said many Whorlton Hall patients were “wholly dependent on professional support”, and added: “For each of those sentenced today, it was clear from the evidence in this case that there were occasions where the care they provided was not only devoid of the appropriate respect and kindness required, but also crossed the line into…

Investor optimism for Eli Lilly ‘s diabetes and obesity treatments in 2023 lifted the stock to its seventh annual gain in a row. In the new year, it should be the same old story. Shares of Eli Lilly have taken a breather over the past three months, as investors book profits in the top performer…