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Hamilton cancels show due to Covid cases as virus wave hits West End

By Michael Howie

Omicron: Weekly Covid cases fall in South Africa’s hotspot province

By Josh Salisbury

Parliament will become ‘hotbed of infection’ as eight MPs get Covid

The Prospect union said new measures are needed to keep MPs and their staff safe

By Michael Howie

Omicron symptoms ‘different’ from other strains, says Oxford professor

Covid: 513,722 booster jabs and 59,610 positive tests in daily figures

Travel red list: Sajid Javid announces all 11 countries to be removed

Vaccine passports ‘increase jab uptake in countries with low coverage’

Covid: What is Plan B amid Omicron spread?

By Elly Blake Josh Salisbury

Scotland faces Omicron ‘tsumani’ with up 25,000 cases a day - Sturgeon

By Josh Salisbury

Omicron v Delta: Which Covid variant is most dangerous?

By Josh Salisbury

EFL suggests players be split on vaccination status to stop outbreak

By James Robson

Michael Gove self-isolates after meeting Covid-positive Barnaby Joyce

By Lily Waddell

Tech & Science Daily: Why ‘the world must act now’ with Omicron

By Rachelle Abbott

Daughter unable to see dying mother last Christmas disgusted by No 10 ‘party’

By Alistair Mason

Kate Garraway: Downing Street party ‘heartbreaking and ridiculous’

By Tammy Hughes

Finland’s PM apologises after going clubbing despite Covid exposure

Austria’s lockdown extended but allows for the sale of Christmas trees

Gym owner fined for keeping venue open during England’s second Covid-19 lockdown

Michelle Meade-Wyatt pleaded guilty to failing to cease carrying on a business that was restricted.

Perth set to lose Ashes Test as Omicron variant hangs over series

By Will Macpherson

Moderna CEO predicts vaccines will be less effective against Omicron

By Sarah Harvey

Call for stronger masks advice as more Omicron cases emerge

Experts have questioned why people should wear a face covering on a train or in a shop but not in a pub.

By Ella Pickover

Portuguese football team hit with 13 cases of Omicron variant

By Michael Howie

Fears new Botswana Covid variant could evade vaccines

By Laura Sharman

DJ fined £12,000 over rave he threw to ‘save lives on the dancefloor’

By Tristan Kirk

Coronavirus vaccines ‘could be given to children under 12 in spring’

The UK’s medicines regulator said standards of safety, quality and effectiveness must be met before approval of jabs for five to 11-year-olds.

Number of people with Covid in the UK decreases

Booster jabs added to NHS Covid Pass for overseas travel

By Josh Salisbury

Knighted AstraZeneca executive says fair share of vaccines a ‘conundrum’

Professor Sir Menelas Pangalos was honoured before the pandemic began for his services to UK science.

By Helen William

Covid daily figures: UK records 214 deaths and 37,243 new cases

By Laura Sharman

Qatar puts UK on its red travel list

The decision means even fully vaccinated UK tourists must enter a quarantine hotel on arrival.

By Neil Lancefield

Austria plunges two million unvaccinated into lockdown

‘It’s our job as the government of Austria to protect the people’ - Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg

By Tammy Hughes

Germany: Covid cases near 5million as nation ‘faces another lockdown’

Coronavirus infection rates have skyrocketed across Germany over the past week

By Michael Howie

Chris Eubank cancels tour dates after testing positive for Covid

Foreign currency sales soar as US and winter sunspots open up

Post Office Travel Money said demand for US dollars more than doubled in September and October compared with the same months in 2020

By Neil Lancefield

Thousands of unvaccinated care home staff set to lose jobs next week

Parliament cancels events and tours as Covid cases rise

By Rachael Burford

Tuchel offers Mount update with another Chelsea star close to return

By James Robson

No evidence for any kind of lockdown despite high case numbers, says PM

His comments follow calls by health leaders and some scientists for ministers to take steps to ease the growing pressures on the health service.

By Gavin Cordon

Boris Johnson urges people to have the Covid-19 booster

By Nicholas Cecil

UK records 186 Covid deaths and 43,467 new cases

R number rises again with infections highest since second wave peak

By Laura Sharman

Gordon Brown’s Covid vaccine plea to help developing countries

By Rachael Burford

Thailand to welcome back fully vaccinated tourists from November 1

36,567 cases and 38 deaths recorded in latest Covid figures

Monday’s figures released by the Government do not include Wales due to a technical issue at Public Health Wales

Labour calls for Plan B restrictions amid rising Covid cases

By Tammy Hughes

Coronavirus: Plan B needed now, but Plan A must also be bolstered, says Labour

It comes after confusion over Labour’s position earlier in the week.

By Geraldine Scott

What to expect from Sunak’s £20 billion Budget

The Chancellor is also expected to preach the importance of having strong public finances.

By Tammy Hughes

New Covid variant ‘under investigation’ by public health officials

Ministers ‘wilfully negligent’ by not reimposing Covid restrictions

By Catherine Wylie

Sir David King: Warning UK’s next peak could be as serious as the last

By Lily Waddell

Millionaire murderer Robert Durst hospitalised with Covid-19

By Tammy Hughes

One in 60 people have Covid-19 as prevalence nears second wave peak

By Michael Howie

More than 5,000 people waiting over 12 hours for treatment in A&E

By Daniel Keane

Oxford jab creator urges pregnant women to take vaccine

By Laura Parnaby

Parents urged to get children Covid jabs amid school rollout concerns