Health

The BBC’s health and science correspondent undergoes an experiment to find out how a cold home affects him.

US agencies cannot agree on how the pandemic started, with the scientific community bitterly divided.

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

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”…

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”…

The UK may not have been well prepared “at all”, says the lead lawyer for the Covid inquiry.

Decisions were “finely balanced” and, with hindsight, might have been different, Fiona Scolding KC says.

The nation’s health was declining and the NHS was struggling by 2020, the Covid inquiry hears.

The nation’s health was declining and the NHS was struggling by 2020, the Covid inquiry hears.

David Cameron says “group think” meant government focused on flu pandemics, rather than other diseases.