Child mortality in England was significantly higher after national COVID-19 lockdowns than that during or before the lockdowns, especially among children from non-White backgrounds, a new study ...

The former health secretary tells bereaved families at the Covid Inquiry he is "profoundly sorry for each death that occurred".

More child deaths occur in winter months compared with the rest of the year, new findings by the University of Bristol-led National Child Mortality Database (NCMD) have shown. The report, published ...

London has seen a significant drop in its rate of coronavirus infections, new figures show, in the clearest sign yet that tough lockdown restrictions are starting to take effect. The capital’s rate of ...

Vaccinating older people probably did avert some deaths in 2021, but the effects were small. And even those small effects on mortality seem to have dissipated during the booster programme. That’s the ...