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'Disgusting': UK's chief medical adviser harassed

Britain on Tuesday condemned the "disgusting" harassment of the government's top medical adviser, Chris Whitty, after footage emerged on social media of two men grabbin

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3D technology could see heart disease patients diagnosed and treated five times faster

HeartFlow was launched last month and is part of an NHS plan to cut the number of heart attacks and strokes by 150,000.

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'Happy Monday': English lockdown measures ease but Johnson urges caution

England’s stay-at-home lockdown order ended on Monday with people allowed to meet up outside in groups of six for the first time in nearly three months, though Prime Mi

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COVID-19 variant up to 30% more deadly, says UK government

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson called rates of transmission 'forbiddingly high.' /Leon Neal/Pool/AFP The variant of COVID-19 first discovered in the UK is up to 30 percent more deadly than t

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UK public urged to "stay at home" to fight coronavirus

A woman wearing a face mask is seen in a bus in London, Britain, Jan. 8, 2021. (Xinhua/Han Yan) The British government on Saturday urged Britons to "stay at home" in a major advertising campai

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UK: Nationwide vaccine roll-out slated for Monday

A staff member of the National Health Service (NHS) claps outside Royal Berkshire Hospital during the weekly "Clap for Our Carers" campaign in Reading, Britain on April 23, 2020. /Tim Ireland/Xin

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UK: Chief medical officer warns vaccine shortages will last months

The UK's chief medical officers have backed a change in guidance which says booster jabs should be given up to 12 weeks later. /VCG Vaccine shortages are likely to cause problems for "several

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UK place 28 million people under tougher COVID-19 restrictions

Manchester so far is refusing to go into Tier 3 as it wants a better financial package for businesses affected. Anthony Devlin/Bloomberg via Getty Images Stricter restrictions in England have

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The U.K: PM faces backlash after announcing three-tier COVID restrictions

Boris Johnson's new coronavirus lockdown rules are being debated and voted on by MPs, with the prime minister facing a Tory backlash and potential rebellion.Some Conser

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UK ponders second COVID-19 lockdown as outbreak accelerates

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was on Monday pondering a second national lockdown as an accelerating coronavirus outbreak threatened to destroy any shoots of econ

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'Important milestone' as volunteers get first doses in COVID-19 treatment trial

AstraZeneca, which is also developing a COVID-19 vaccine, said the drug known as AZD7442 is a combination of two antibodies.

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UK health advisors say missing school is greater risk than COVID-19

01:43 The UK's chief medical officers have urged schools to reopen after the summer holidays, warning that the risks of not going is more likely to damage pupils than the COVID-19 pand

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UK to finalize plan on loosening 2-meter coronavirus social distancing rule

A shopper enters Selfridges department store in Oxford Street as it reopens in London, Britain on June 15, 2020. (Photo by Ray Tang/Xinhua)Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Sunday that the progress ma

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Review contradicts Johnson's claim on early lockdown at UK care homes

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told Britain's parliament on Wednesday that his government moved swiftly to protect the country's vulnerable care homes. Under increasing pressure to defend his r

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Bereaved NHS staff families to receive compensation as 360 more COVID-19 patients die in UK

Another 360 people who tested positive for COVID-19 have died in hospitals in Britain as of Sunday afternoon, taking the total coronavirus hospital death toll to 21,09

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UK govt under fire over virus advice as deaths pass 20,000

Britain’s government on Saturday defended the independence of the scientists advising it on the coronavirus after it emerged that Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s controv

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UK schools unlikely to reopen before June as lockdown continues

Schools in Britain are unlikely to reopen until June 1 at the earliest, the leader of the head teachers' union said Thursday as Britain, like many other countries, is competing against time to d