Covid-19 news: Moderna’s omicron booster has promising immune response
9 June 2022
A regular round-up of the latest coronavirus news, plus insight, features and interviews from New Scientist about the covid-19 pandemic
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Boris Johnson announces 'living with covid' plan for England
21 February 2022
The legal requirement for people in England with covid-19 to self-isolate will end this Thursday but will remain part of country's guidance. Widespread free PCR and lateral flow testing will stop in April
China's covid-19 lockdowns brought forward spring bloom by eight days
25 August 2021
Clearer skies from restrictions on traffic during the covid-19 pandemic seem to have brought forward China’s spring by around eight days, resulting in so much vegetation growth that the country was almost a fifth "greener"
Scientists call for urgent investigation into covid-19 animal origins
25 August 2021
Scientists say the next phase of the covid-19 origin investigations needs to start urgently, calling for renewed focus on the animal origin theory rather than the lab-leak hypothesis
Covid-19 deaths in England could peak at 100 per day in August
12 July 2021
More than 100 people a day are expected to die and more than 1000 a day be admitted to hospital at the peak of the UK’s current wave of covid-19 cases, the government’s scientific advisers are anticipating
Delta variant on track to become dominant cause of covid-19 globally
28 June 2021
Now detected in at least 85 countries, the delta variant of the coronavirus spreads more easily and is better at evading the protection provided by vaccines, meaning it will probably outcompete other variants
Turning orchestras inside out could lower risk of spreading covid-19
23 June 2021
Placing wind and brass instruments on the outskirts of an orchestra, rather than in the centre where they are conventionally found, could lower the risk of spreading covid-19 according to an analysis of aerosol flow
Devi Sridhar interview: Don't blame the scientists for lockdown
8 June 2021
Devi Sridhar has been a constant voice in the ear of governments throughout the pandemic. She tells Adam Vaughan why scientists aren’t to blame for lockdowns and why we must not become complacent about the virus's toll
Indian coronavirus variant in the UK seems to be more transmissible
10 May 2021
A form of SARS-CoV-2 called B.1.617.2, which was designated a “variant of concern” by health authorities in England, appears to be at least as transmissible as B.1.1.7, the “Kent variant” that now dominates in the UK - but doesn't seem more dangerous
Air pollution halved in first UK lockdown but fell less in the third
27 April 2021
During the first coronavirus lockdown, air pollution halved in the UK, but more recent lockdowns saw a drop of only 28 per cent as more people used gas boilers while working from home and for keeping warm during the winter
