Office for National Statistics (ONS) analysts estimate that almost 1.73million Brits were carrying the virus on any given day in the week to March 13.
ANDREW NEIL: ‘In 2020, I left the BBC after 25 years’ service. The BBC made it clear that there could be no party to mark my departure. It never crossed my mind that there could be.’
The vote comes two weeks after a Department of Energy report stated that COVID likely leaked from the Wuhan lab.
ALISON BOSHOFF: By her own description, growing up Leila Farzad was something of an ugly duckling. ‘Mal-coordinated, over-sized features, very hairy’ is how she talks of her teenage appearance.
Andrey Botikov, found dead in his Moscow apartment, was one of 18 who worked on the Sputnik V vaccine during the pandemic. Sputnik was the first registered vaccine against Covid.
China denounced comments made by FBI Director Christopher Wray that a leak from a lab in Wuhan likely caused the COVID pandemic, a claim China said had ‘no credibility whatsoever.’
FBI Director Christopher Wray confirmed the agency’s conclusion that the COVID pandemic was probably the result of a lab leak in Wuhan, China
Researchers at Cedars-Sinai health system in California looked at 24,000 Covid patients hospitalized between March 2020 and June 2022. They found those without inoculations were more at risk.