'I was at a hospital where there were a few coronavirus patients and I shook hands with everybody' says Boris Johnson.

There is "no rationale" to postponing sporting events in Britain because of coronavirus, according to the Department of Culture, Media and Sport.

A man in his early 80s with underlying health conditions died in hospital in Watford, the NHS says.

The government is considering keeping those at higher risk from coronavirus in group isolation.

The UK's Nudge Unit and Dominic Cummings are weighing up herd immunity as a possible endgame for coronavirus, but the consequences could be severe

The UK's Nudge Unit and Dominic Cummings are weighing up herd immunity as a possible endgame for coronavirus, but the consequences could be severe

Herd immunity doesn't look like a good solution to the coronavirus outbreak.

Otto English explores why Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings' supposed strategy of tackling the Coronavirus through the UK population developing 'herd immunity' is so dangerous to us all.

What’s the best way of tackling a global pandemic? Testing? Self-isolation? Pouring emergency funding into an overstretched healthcare system? Or going to the Winchester and waiting for it all to...

Government says up to 10,000 may already be infected as UK moves into ‘delay’ phase

The UK's chief scientific adviser has said the government wants 60 per cent of the population to catch coronavirus to try and create “herd immunity” to protect against the virus becoming an annual

Prime minister listens to medical experts and trusts that herd immunity to Covid-19 develops

The World Health Organisation has cast doubt on the UK’s approach to developing "herd immunity" against Covid-19, saying the current situation around the outbreak in Britain requires "action". 

It came after the government’s chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance faced criticism for saying 60% of the population needed to get infected with the virus.

Exclusive: Public Health England document seen by Guardian says four in five ‘expected’ to contract virus

Prime Minister Boris Johnson made a statement on coronavirus.

Ministers were warned hundreds of thousands of people in the UK would die without stronger measures.

New quarantine and social distancing ‘suppression’ measures are based on modelling by Imperial College to move beyond ‘mitigation’

The warnings from China and Italy were loud and clear. But politicians and their advisers wasted valuable time – and lives will be lost as a result, says Richard Horton, editor of The Lancet

Downing Street says Sunday Times report on PM’s aide is ‘highly defamatory fabrication’

“When this is all over, the NHS England board should resign in their entirety.” So wrote one National Health Service (NHS) health worker last weekend. The scale of anger and frustration is unpreced...