Latest Coronavirus News

• Prime Minister Pays Tribute to COVID Victims on 2-Year Anniversary of First Lockdown A day of remembrance as today marks the second anniversary of the first COVID-19 national lockdown in the UK.
  Medscape News UK, March 23, 2022
• Experts Urge COVID-19 Inquiry to Include Effects on Children A group of 50 clinicians and scientists urged the COVID-19 public inquiry to include how the Government handled children during the pandemic in its investigation.
  Medscape News UK, March 22, 2022
• Gastrointestinal Infections Halved During Early Months of the Pandemic Researchers say that lessons learned during the pandemic about hygiene could help maintain lower levels of gastrointestinal infections.
  Medscape News UK, March 22, 2022
• GPs Left Depressed, Anxious, and Burned Out by Pandemic Review finds GPs have been left depressed, anxious, and burned out by the pandemic, with women doctors and older doctors faring worse.
  Medscape News UK, March 22, 2022
• Scotland Postpones Ending Face Mask Restrictions Amid Rising COVID-19 Cases Across the UK The number of COVID-19 infections continues to increase across the UK, with the Omicron BA.2 variant predominating.
  Medscape News UK, March 21, 2022
• Hospital Pressure Concerns as COVID-19 Case Rates Continue to Rise Community surveillance study says new cases of COVID reached a record daily high, as health service providers warn there is no prospect of pressure on the NHS abating until later in the spring.
  Medscape News UK, March 18, 2022
• UK Workers Still Feeling Mental Strain from the Pandemic A poll suggests that the trauma caused by the COVID pandemic continues to weigh heavily on mental health but finds that lockdowns have left most Brits more comfortable with their diminished social life.
  Medscape News UK, March 18, 2022
• New CQC Urgent and Emergency Care Inspections Reports for Gloucestershire The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has reported its first in a new series of inspections of integrated care systems (ICS).
  Medscape News UK, March 17, 2022
• No Increased Risk of Rare Neurological Events After COVID Vaccination COVID vaccination does not increase the risk of rare neurological events say researchers in their study of over 8 million people.
  Medscape News UK, March 17, 2022
• Mother to Baby COVID-19 Transmission Possible But Rare COVID-19 can be transmitted from mother to baby before, during and after childbirth, but this is rare say researchers who seek to reassure mothers.
  Medscape News UK, March 17, 2022
• Omicron Lowers Hospitalisation and Mortality Compared With Delta The Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 is associated with significantly lower risks of hospitalisation and mortality compared with the Delta variant.
  Medscape News UK, March 17, 2022
• Memory and Concentration Problems Common in Long-COVID Long COVID-19 patients experience concentration and memory problems several months after the initial onset of their disease, with many performing poorly on cognitive tests.
  Medscape News UK, March 17, 2022
• Spending Watchdog Blames DHSC for Elective and Cancer Care Backlogs MPs say the Department of Health must recognise that addressing NHS staffing shortages is key to restoring health services.
  Medscape News UK, March 16, 2022
• Doctors who Died During Pandemic to Be Remembered Doctors who died during the coronavirus pandemic will be remembered with a special service today.
  Medscape News UK, March 16, 2022
• Potential New Treatment Option for COVID-related ARDS New clinical trial findings suggest alpha-1 antitrypsin could be an effective treatment for COVID-related acute respiratory distress syndrome.
  Medscape News UK, March 14, 2022
• Effectiveness of Pfizer's COVID Vaccine for Children Decreases for Omicron Protection from the vaccine waned during the time that the Omicron COVID variant was more pronounced, says a preprint study.
  Medscape News UK, March 14, 2022
• ONS Infection Survey and Cochrane Review to Share Inaugural Prize for Trustworthiness The Harding Prize for Trustworthy Communication is open to all forms of messaging that can be taken in within 10 minutes.
  Medscape News UK, March 14, 2022
• Disaster Management Plans Vital if Hospitals Are to Function Inadequate training for hospital staff and lack of consideration for their personal circumstances puts hospital functioning at risk during extreme events.
  Medscape News UK, March 11, 2022
• Dampening Immune Response May Resolve Post-COVID Breathlessness Breathlessness after COVID-19 infection may be due to persistent immune response in the lungs, say researchers who suggest treatments to dampen down this response may be beneficial.
  Medscape News UK, March 11, 2022
• New COVID Infections Up By 46% Across the UK Two weeks after the end of restrictions, numbers are back on the rise again throughout the UK.
  Medscape News UK, March 10, 2022