Boris Johnson this week confirmed the country's move to Plan B to curb COVID-19 infections as the Omicron variant continues to spread across England. The prime minister said at a Downing Street press ...

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The UK’s top public health officials have advised ministers that “stringent national measures” need to be imposed by 18 December to avoid Covid hospitalisations surpassing last winter’s peak, ...

We've had Omicron XE, the Centaurus and more recently the 'XBB' Covid-19 variation. Now we’re facing a new Covid XBB.1.5 sub-variant, which has been spreading rapidly across the US, with some cases ...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged people to get their booster shots ahead of Christmas at the weekend. His message was stark: a "tiny wave" of the Omicron variant is coming and getting a third shot ...

LONDON (AP) — Preliminary data suggest that people with the omicron variant of the coronavirus are between 50% and 70% less likely to need hospitalization than those with the delta strain, Britain’s ...

(Reuters) -Britain's health regulator on Wednesday approved the country's first two-pronged COVID-19 booster targeting the Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 sub-variants and the original coronavirus strain. The ...

The latest work from home guidance to tackle the spread of the Omicron variant had a significant impact on footfall across UK retail destinations as shoppers avoided the high streets, new data shows.

The omicron variant could cause a new wave of the pandemic worse than that seen last winter without a new lockdown, modelling by top UK scientists advising the government has found. Scientists at the ...

Omicron still poses a “serious threat” to the UK despite a “glimmer of hope” in research showing people contracting the virus are less likely to need hospital care, Dr Jenny Harries has said. The ...