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About 10,000 NHS nurses in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland are to strike for the second time in less than a week in protest over their pay. Wednesday will see ambulance staff in England and Wales walk out too unless a…
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Rare genetic disorders will be diagnosed and treated in babies thanks to a project to sequence the complete DNA of 100,000 newborns. It should spare hundreds of families in England months, or years, of anguish waiting to find…
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China set out urgent plans to protect rural communities from Covid-19 on Friday as millions of city-dwellers planned holidays for the first time in years after Beijing abandoned its stringent system of lockdowns and travel curbs. China’s…
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The UK government on Thursday admitted there were serious shortages of antibiotics to treat bacterial infections in children, despite more than a week of denials. “Serious shortage protocols” had been issued for three types of oral…
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China and Hong Kong will start quarantine-free travel as soon as January, local media outlet reported. A proposed timetable has been outlined for the long-awaited border reopening, which can be implemented as soon as early January, the…
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Covid-19 is rapidly spreading through Chinese households and offices, especially in the capital, after the country’s pandemic rules were unexpectedly unwound last week. It has sparked chaos on the ground, straining the medical system and…
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The European Union’s drug watchdog warned on Friday that antibody treatments for Covid-19 are ineffective against the newest and increasingly dominant strains of the disease. Numerous monoclonal antibodies, which are given by injection…
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The United States is experiencing the highest levels of hospitalizations from influenza that it has seen in a decade for this time of year, the head of the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Monday, adding that 14…
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China reported 31,824 new Covid-19 infections for Dec 3, of which 4,213 were symptomatic and 27,611 were asymptomatic, the National Health Commission said on Sunday. That was down from 33,073 new cases a day earlier, 3,988 symptomatic…
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UK health officials on Friday warned parents to be alert for scarlet fever symptoms in their children, following the deaths of six youngsters from a more serious Group A strep-related illness. Britain’s Health Security Agency (UKHSA)…
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