Gladys Berejiklian is expected to unveil plans to end lockdown in NSW, while Scott Morrison hints at home quarantine by the end of the year for stranded expats. Follow the latest updates live
Cheltenham’s Covid controversy rears its head again as crowds return
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Excitement mingled with a nagging sense of déjà vu here on Friday as spectators flooded back into jump racing’s spiritual home for the first time since March 2020. Nineteen months on from a Gold Cup week that came to ...
CDC endorses boosters for Moderna and Johnson & Johnson Covid vaccines
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Millions more Americans can get a Covid-19 booster and choose a different company’s vaccine for that next shot, federal health officials said on Thursday. Certain people who received Pfizer vaccinations months ago alr...
Former MP Frank Field says he is terminally ill and asks peers to relax law on assisted dying – UK politics updates
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Lord Field says he is too ill to take part in debate but says he would have spoken strongly in favour of supporting assisted dying
Chess: Fide world event controversially goes ahead despite Covid-19 lockdown
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The International Chess Federation will go ahead with next week’s 113-player Grand Swiss and 51-player Women’s Grand Swiss in Riga despite Latvia’s sudden imposition of a Covid-19 lockdown in response to a surge in ca...
Britain must control Covid now – or face a winter lockdown
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In Frankfurt, Germany, you can’t simply grab a burger inside a restaurant, go to an indoor pool or have a drink in an indoor bar. Before doing so, you have to present either certification of full vaccination, or a neg...
With Covid infections rising, the Tories are conducting a deadly social experiment
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A pandemic is a political event. It exposes who is vulnerable and who can afford to escape, who is prioritised for treatment and who is neglected. The politics of a pandemic are both large-scale and intensely personal...
Covid may have killed up to 180,000 health workers globally, WHO says
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The World Health Organization says 80,000 to 180,000 healthcare workers may have been killed by Covid-19 up to May this year, insisting they must be prioritised for vaccination. A WHO paper on Thursday estimated that ...
New Zealand Covid: Ardern unveils post-lockdown ‘traffic light’ system linked to 90% vaccination rate
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More than 18 months into the pandemic, New Zealand has announced its roadmap for a post-lockdown future – and says dropping restrictions hinges on the country hitting some of the world’s most ambitious vaccination rat...