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NewsYahoo News UK'We've failed': Record number of 6-17 year-olds being admitted to hospital with COVID
With the government dropping its 'plan B' COVID measures on Thursday, it might appear all is well again. However, the statistics are still stark.
NewsYahoo News UKRevealed: Nearly two-thirds of bar staff aren't fully vaccinated
The information comes from the first ever dataset to break down vaccine figures according to how close employees are to each other.
NewsYahoo News UKThe chart that shows how bad your sick pay really is
Boris Johnson has outlined plans to scrap the legal obligation to isolate with COVID, which experts warn could exacerbate inequality.
NewsYahoo News UKHospital sends patients to stay in hotel to relieve pressure on wards
Private care provider Abicare is deploying agency staff at the ''care hotel'' in Bath to provide 24-hour care support.
EntertainmentYahoo Celebrity UK'Strictly' unveils line-up as Professionals Tour returns after COVID postponement
The 2021 tour was delayed amid the pandemic.
NewsYahoo News UKCOVID cases skyrocket in France ahead of UK half-term holidays
It comes as holiday firms are reporting a surge in bookings for foreign travel.
EntertainmentYahoo CelebrityElton John reveals he has COVID-19, postpones tour
The 74-year-old says it's "a massive disappointment."
NewsYahoo News UKCases of ‘more transmissible’ Omicron sub-lineage BA.2 increasing in UK
BA.2 has been designated as a “variant under investigation”.
NewsYahoo News UKCOVID travel tests to be scrapped for double jabbed arrivals in time for half term
Johnson has said people who are fully vaccinated will not have to test upon arrival into England
HealthYahoo News UKWe can end 'emergency phase' of COVID in 2022, says World Health Organisation
WHO says the pandemic is far from over but we are entering a new stage driven by the more mild omicron variant.
CelebrityYahoo Celebrity UKCillian Murphy 'sad' COVID got in the way of Helen McCrory filming final 'Peaky Blinders'
The Aunt Polly actor died last year.
NewsYahoo News UKGovernment scientists monitoring new BA.2 variant of Omicron
The government has confirmed it is investigating the BA.2 variant of Omicron, but due to its specific mutations, it is proving to be harder to track.
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Biden concedes more COVID testing should have been done earlier
On Wednesday, the eve of his first anniversary in office, President Biden held a press conference at the White House and admitted that more COVID-19 testing should have been done earlier.
NewsYahoo News UKQueen turned down No 10 offer to ease COVID rules for Philip’s funeral - report
Downing Street has declined to comment on reports offered to relax rules.
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Why some people in close quarters get COVID-19 — and others don’t
At this point of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the highly transmissible Omicron variant, it may be an all-too-familiar story: You know of a fully vaccinated household where some people tested positive for COVID — and others in the same household never tested positive at all. How is this possible? Yahoo News Medical Contributor and practicing internist Dr. Lucy McBride explains how people and the virus relate to one another in very different ways depending on various factors.
NewsYahoo News UKFree COVID lateral flow tests 'to come to an end by July'
An exact date for the end of the free tests has not been confirmed.
NewsYahoo News UKBoris Johnson scraps Plan B COVID rules and mandatory face masks from next week
England’s Plan B measures are set to expire on 26 January.
CelebrityYahoo Celebrity UKDancing On Ice: Bez 'gutted' after testing positive for coronavirus
The 57-year-old Happy Mondays star is already through to Week Three, thanks to the public vote.
NewsYahoo News UKUK could have flu-type relationship with COVID 'by next year'
There could be light at the end of the tunnel as the virus gets milder, an expert has said.
CelebrityYahoo News UKDad meets five-week-old son for the first time after falling into COVID coma on day he was born
Andrew Allen, 32, from Bolton, Greater Manchester, finally met son Oliver when he was five weeks old after falling into a COVID coma on the day he was born.
HealthYahoo News UKDoctor took her own life after two bouts of COVID devastated her health
Professor Fiona Denison, 51, died days after an operation was postponed due to her contracting COVID again
CelebrityYahoo Celebrity UK'GMB' star Susanna Reid 'still irked' over Boris Johnson's party apology
The presenter shared her thoughts in a post on Twitter.
CelebrityYahoo Celebrity UKAnt and Dec 'surprised' that 'I'm A Celebrity' returned to Wales for second year
The series was held in Wales in 2020 and 2021.
HealthReutersCovid: Queiroga admite 3ª onda por Ômicron e defende implementação de autotestes
Queiroga confirmou que a pasta pediu à Agência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitária (Anvisa) autorização para o uso dos autotestes da Covid-19
HealthYahoo News UKGovernment 'certainly not following the science' by cutting COVID isolation to five days
The government cut self-isolation from seven days to five on Thursday.
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