Vaccine roll-outs have been a major reason for investors’ rosy outlook, but concerns about mutant strains have tempered optimism. A major chunk of the global recovery in companies’ earnings – recovery expected in the first...

Fake news is likely to be causing some people from the UK's South Asian communities to reject the Covid vaccine, a doctor has warned. Dr Harpreet Sood, who is leading an NHS anti-disinformation drive, said...

One of two coronavirus variants first detected in Brazil has been found in the UK, says a leading scientist advising the government. But the version discovered is not the more infectious "variant of concern", Prof...

"Follow the science” has been the battle cry of lockdown supporters since the Covid-19 pandemic began. Yet before March 2020, the mainstream scientific community, including the World Health Organization, strongly opposed lockdowns and similar...