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2021-01-26 20:58:53 Britain’s Covid-19 death toll has passed 100,000. More people have died from the virus in the UK than in any other European country.

Our restaurant critic fell ill with Covid-19 in November. After a month in hospital and 10 days on life support, Tim Hayward reflects on his battle with coronavirus. Read his incredibly moving story here.

Israel has secured more vaccines than it can use and is spearheading one of the world’s fastest vaccination drives. So how did a country with barely 9m citizens persuade companies courting markets with hundreds of millions of potential customers to fill its orders first? Take out a trial subscription to find out.

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2021-01-25 20:25:03 Moderna is developing a new vaccine after it warned that its current jab is far less effective against the variant that emerged in South Africa.

Teachers have been no more likely to die of coronavirus than the rest of the population, official figures showed. Follow our global tracker for the latest figures on infections and fatalities.

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2021-01-22 20:33:25 AstraZeneca has warned EU countries it will fail to meet delivery timetables for its coronavirus vaccine, in a fresh blow to the troubled rollout of the bloc’s immunisation programme, European officials have said.

Forget the ‘beginning of the end’, Covid is a permawar, writes the FT's companies editor Tom Braithwaite. The healthcare industry expects to fight coronavirus for years. Take out a trial subscription to read more.

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2021-01-21 19:17:43 Hungary has approved Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine, making it the first EU state to break ranks and give unilateral emergency approval for a Covid jab.

Lockdowns have lowered personal grooming standards, says Unilever. The company’s chief financial officer said that homeworking had prompted the decline in demand for the consumer group’s skin and haircare products.

The US will be joining global vaccine efforts under the Biden administration. Anthony Fauci says America will sign up to WHO’s Covax programme to ‘advance multilateral efforts’. Take out a trial subscription to read more.

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2021-01-20 20:01:10 Breaking News: Joe Biden was officially sworn in as the 46th US president. He plans to introduce a mask mandate lasting 100 days on federal property to try to curb coronavirus cases. Open / Comment

2021-01-20 13:20:13 Breaking news: The BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine has been found to be effective against the Covid-19 variant that was first discovered in the UK. Open / Comment

2021-01-19 21:03:02 India’s ambitious drive to vaccinate millions of healthcare workers against Covid-19 has been hit by an IT glitch and deepening suspicion of a homegrown vaccine just days after the campaign was launched. In New Delhi on Monday, fewer than half of the 8,100 healthcare workers designated for vaccination turned up for their jabs. Has "vaccine nationalism" undermined public confidence?

Throughout the pandemic, US genomic sequencing capacity has lagged behind that of the UK, blinding it, experts said, to the emergence of new variants such as B.1.1.7, which the CDC forecasts could become the most prevalent strain in the US by March. Now it's trying to catch up — take out a trial subscription to read more.

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2021-01-18 20:04:32 The hopes of the rest of the world could rest upon whether Britain succeeds in its target of 15m vaccinations by mid-February. Anna Gross lays out the threat new variants of the disease pose to the UK's vaccination programme.

Norway became one of the first European countries to loosen coronavirus-induced restrictions from the second wave of Covid-19. Follow our global tracker for the latest figures on infections and fatalities.

Chinese and Russian vaccines are in high demand as the world scrambles for doses. Buyers have not been deterred by incomplete trial data and questionable domestic approval processes. Take out a trial subscription to read more.

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Many of the inconsistencies that prevent Beijing from broadcasting a triumphant tale over Covid-19 are found in Wuhan: a city that offers clues to the roots of the virus, as well as revealing trauma from those who challenge the government's sanitised narrative.

US health experts have warned that new federal guidelines to prioritise vaccinating anyone over the age of 65 could overwhelm already stretched health systems. Follow our coronavirus tracker for the latest on vaccine rollouts around the world.

It is estimated that up to 1.3m foreign-born people have left the UK in the past 12 months, in what is likely to be the largest fall in Britain’s population since the second world war. Take out a trial subscription to read more.

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2021-01-14 12:55:42 People who have already contracted coronavirus are as protected against reinfection as those who have received the best Covid-19 vaccines, according to a study of 20,000 UK healthcare workers. It gave better than 94% protection against symptomatic Covid-19, but there are some caveats. Here's what you need to know.

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