By Wanyuan Song BBC News China has seen its first deaths from Covid-19 in six months, and thousands more people are catching the disease, despite the government's strict lockdown policy. The World Health Organization (WHO) has said China should rethink its strategy....
China's return to the Formula 1 schedule will be cancelled next year as a result of the country's Covid policies, BBC Sport has learned. Formula 1 has not visited China since 2019, but was due to return for the fourth race in 2023 on 16 April. China's zero-Covid...
The number of Covid-19 infections in Scotland has fallen, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The ONS Covid infection survey estimates an average of 97,500 people were infected on any given day in the week up to 8 November - that's about one in 55...
Covid infections remain fairly stable across the UK, but other viruses such as flu, norovirus and RSV are increasing, latest data shows. The flu season has started early and some children under five are ending up in hospital, health officials say. They are also...
All of the region's hospitals are said to be operating "beyond capacity" A health board has warned that it is dealing with unprecedented demand for services exceeding even the worst waves of the Covid pandemic. NHS Dumfries and Galloway said the last few days had been...
A woman walks past the Covid Memorial Wall opposite the Palace of Westminster in London By The Data and Visual Journalism Teams BBC News The number of people with coronavirus in the UK continues to fall, the latest weekly figures from the Office for National...
Jane Morrison of the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice group previously told BBC Scotland how she has been frustrated by a lack of progress The UK Covid inquiry has heard bereaved families in Scotland have been left anxious by delays to the separate Scottish...
Fingers could hold clues to how Covid may affect people Finger length differences between left and right hands could hold answers to how ill people will get from Covid. Men and older people have been prone to severe Covid so experts believe later-life testosterone...
Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificates of 4,900 people in Northern Ireland, an inquiry has heard. The figure, from the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA), was given to the UK Covid-19 public inquiry that is sitting in London. The inquiry...
Foreigners will be able to holiday in Japan again from October By Frances Mao BBC News Japan will open its doors back up to foreign tourists, after more than two years of closed borders due to the Covid pandemic. Tourists will be able to visit the country without a...
Covid infections in the UK are rising and have topped more than one million, according to official estimates. There has been a 14% rise in people testing positive in the week to 20 September - the biggest increase since the summer. But there is no clear evidence of an...
By Tiffanie Turnbull BBC News, Sydney Australia has said it will end mandatory Covid isolation requirements from next month. Currently anyone who tests positive to the virus must isolate for five days, but that will end from 14 October. At times nicknamed "Fortress...
Covishield accounts for over 90% of the doses given in India. Indian vaccine maker Serum Institute of India (SII) has said it had to dump 100 million doses of their Covid-19 vaccine after they expired. The firm stopped producing Covishield in December last year due to...