Covid index - March 2022 - May 2022
1 Apr 2022: Free testing ended
Starmer wants Carrie Johnson named if fined for parties
Covid: Record 4.9 million people have the virus in UK
About one in every 13 people in the UK has coronavirus, according to the Office for National Statistics
4 Apr 2022: Covid: Nine new symptoms added to official list
The original signs were fever, cough, loss of sense of smell or taste. Now:
shortness of breath
feeling tired or exhausted
aching body, headache
sore throat
blocked or runny nose
loss of appetite
diarrhoea
feeling sick or being sick
6 Apr 2022: React Study finds latest wave may have peaked in young, but rising in over 50s.
Last React study report as government cancelling funding
new variant of Omicron - XE - maybe 10% more transmissable than BA.2 (which is more transmissable than BA.1)
7 Apr 2022: NHS under huge strain as A&Es turn away ambulances
8 Apr 2022: Covid infections show signs of plateauing in UK
11 Apr 2022: Queen left 'tired and exhausted' by virus
Liz Carr calls for mask-only theatre performances
Funding relief for unpaid carers
12 Apr 2022: Partygate: Met Police issue 30 more Downing Street lockdown fines
I test neg for Covid, despite feeling rotten
14 Apr 2022: Lord David Wolfson, Justice minister quits over No 10 Covid breaches
New vaccine approved for UK use, manufactured by Valneva
Rules to end for businesses in Wales
NHS faces an Easter 'as bad as any winter'
Covid levels starting to fall in UK, says ONS - now one in 15
16 Apr 2022: Covid caution urged as Scots gather for Easter
I GET COVID!!!! (husband neg - friend positive)
17 Apr 2022: Covid adviser Devi Sridhar sent white powder and mask in post
Novavax is still not cleared for use in the UK
18 Apr 2022: Shanghai: China reports three dead in latest Covid outbreak
Covid: Thousands of vaccinators get permanent NHS roles
Covid: Law on wearing face masks in Scotland is lifted
19 Apr 2022: Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle decided that MPs would vote, on 21 April, on whether Johnson should be referred to the Parliamentary Privileges Committee to investigate whether he knowingly misled Parliament.
20 Apr 2022: Pregnant women 'afterthought' in Covid jab rollout
husband still neg (Grr!)
21 Apr 2022: Johnson's referral to the Parliamentary Privileges Committee waved through unopposed
Shanghai lockdown: Whole communities relocated in anti-Covid drive
I'm still positive
22 Apr 2022: Longest infection lasted more than 16 months - study
PM faces probe Parliament party probe
NHS to ban products of slavery after PPE concerns
Only one in four Covid patients in ICU because of virus
24 Apr 2022: Shanghai: Censors try to block video about lockdown conditions
26 Apr 2022: My Covid test negative
27 Apr 2022: Government policies on discharging patients from hospital to care homes at the start of pandemic ruled unlawful by High Court.
28 Apr 2022: Further care home legal challenge considered
Hospital admissions fall in Scotland
An 87-year-old woman, whose routine medication was stopped after she contracted Covid, died because it wasn't restarted
Self-isolation ends in Jersey
29 Apr 2022: Covid infections in record drop of nearly one million, says ONS
30 Apr 2022: Child hepatitis cases falsely linked to Covid vaccine
China Covid outbreak: Beijing residents must test negative to enter public spaces
MP Michael Fabricant sorry lockdown drinks comments
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