Former UK government chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance warns that another pandemic is inevitable, urging the British government...

Boris Johnson will be grilled under oath by lawyers for the judge-led inquiry about his initial reluctance to impose a national lockdown in...

Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson's struggles with pandemic science were highlighted in Chief Scientific Adviser Patrick Vallance's te...

During the COVID-19 inquiry, a diary note by Patrick Vallance revealed a meeting where Rishi Sunak allegedly suggested "just let people die...

In keenly awaited testimony to the country's public inquiry into the COVID-19 pandemic, Patrick Vallance said he and others faced repeated ...

An AI council member, Priya Lakhani OBE, has been appointed to support work to harness new digital technology, such as artificial intellige...

The last and fourth stage of the lockdown roadmap is now expected around July 19 instead amid a worrying spike in cases of the Delta varian...

The delay being considered is to enable all over-50s to be fully vaccinated with both doses of a vaccine, found to be most effective agains...

With almost 128,000 deaths, the United Kingdom has the world's fifth worst official COVID toll, and Johnson was slow to appreciate the sign...

"As announced on Monday, the UK has identified a new variant of Covid-19 through Public Health England’s genomic surveillance," England's C...

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said that, from Saturday, single adults can spend the night at another house in a so-called "support bu...

Weekly figures from Britain's Office for National Statistics (ONS) added more than 7,000 deaths in England and Wales, raising the total for...

Britain has the fifth highest official coronavirus death toll in the world, after the United States, Italy, Spain and France. Scientists ha...

UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock said that though the daily rise in the toll was lower than previous days, it was important not to forget a...

Sarah Gilbert, professor of vaccinology at Oxford University, told The Times on Saturday that she is “80% confident” the vaccine would work...

A week ago a national shut-down was ordered by PM Boris Johnson — who himself has contracted the illness and is in isolation. On Monday, th...

Darapladib had already failed in a late-stage trial for patients with well-treated heart disease.