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Assessing impact of international travel restrictions on COVID-19 spread
The first study to assess the global impact of international travel restrictions on the COVID-19 pandemic has suggested that they may only be effective...
COVID-19 Oxford vaccine found safe and effective in Phase III trial
The first full results from the Phase III Oxford COVID-19 vaccine have found it to be safe and effective to protect against the virus.
The...
First ever patient to receive COVID-19 vaccination in the UK
Today marks a landmark moment for the United Kingdom as the first NHS patient has received the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.
The biggest vaccination campaign in...
The health implications of climate change in the age of COVID-19
A new report has highlighted that no country is immune from the health impacts of climate change, and that the COVID-19 pandemic is an...
Disinfecting CT scanners with Ultraviolet Light
A team of scientists are looking at utilising ultraviolet light (UV light) in order to disinfect the inner bore of CT scanning machines.
Due to...
Families to be reunited with care home residents by Christmas
A million new COVID-19 tests are to be sent out to care providers over the next month, which will allow for families to be...
New COVID-19 infection control approach is needed to keep schools open
Governments are being urged rethink policies on COVID-19 infection control if primary schools are to be kept open this winter.
Schools across the country have...
Discover how to fight COVID-19 indoors with clean air
The risk of contracting COVID-19 indoors is much higher than outdoors.
A total of 31% of COVID-19 outbreaks in Spain have started in the form...
Nasal spray clinical trial to investigate prevention of COVID-19 infection
A randomised, double blind trial will be testing the efficacy of a nasal spray to protect frontline healthcare workers against COVID-19.
The spray is the...
COVID-19: understanding the aerodynamics of infectious disease
Countries across the globe have implemented measures such as social distancing and mask wearing in order to reduce COVID-19 transmission, but as the weather...
Six months immunity following COVID-19 infection, say researchers
Immunity can last for up to six months following a COVID-19 infection, a new study has shown.
As part of a collaboration between the University...
European Commission steps up rapid COVID-19 testing
The European Commission will be stepping up rapid COVID-19 antigen testing and support to increase testing capacity.
The move follows the European Commission's recommendation to...
Care homes to be tested for COVID-19 immune response
Thousands of care home staff and residents in the UK are to have their immune response to COVID-19 tested as part of an expansion...
COVID-19 care home deaths in UK ‘hugely underestimated’
An early draft of a recent study has shown that up to 10,000 more people may have died in care homes from COVID-19 than...
Mental health, COVID-19 and the workplace
The UK’s Health and Safety Executive speaks to HEQ about COVID-19 and mental health at work.
With the COVID-19 pandemic still nowhere close to a...
COVID-19 and infection control in Europe
ECDC experts Dr Agoritsa Baka and Dr Diamantis Plachouras tell HEQ about public health planning infection control policy during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The European Centre...
COVID-19 vaccine Phase III clinical trials to begin in UK
Phase III clinical trials for a COVID-19 vaccine are set to begin in the UK and will involve 6,000 volunteers from across the country.
Global...
Are COVID-19 antigen tests already becoming obsolete?
In this article, Marc Davis of Capital Markets Media discusses the efficacy of COVID-19 antigen tests.
It was supposed to be a big breakthrough in...
WHO, COVID-19, and winter preparations
World Health Organization Regional Director for Europe, Dr Hans Kluge, highlights concerns over a winter wave of COVID-19.
Speaking at an emergency meeting of ministers...
Families to visit loved ones in care homes with regular COVID-19 testing
The UK Government is launching a new pilot to enable family members to see their loved ones in care homes with regular COVID-19 testing.
The...