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Harriet Moxon with her five-year-old daughter Eve. Photo by Charlotte Ridgeon (Harriet's twin sister).

Mum says she's lucky to be alive after being hit by a car on holiday

A nurse prepares a dose of a Covid-19 vaccine.

Covid and flu jabs to be brought forward over emergence of new variant

Palforzia, an oral drug, appears to reduce the risk of harm when a peanut allergy sufferer comes into contact with the foodstuff (image: Shutterstock)

NHS England to offer new treatment to help tackle peanut allergies

The Moderna booster jab increases antibodies against Omicron 37-fold (Photo: Getty Images)

Moderna booster jab increases antibodies against Omicron 37-fold

Sajid Javid is urging people to ‘play their part’ and get their Covid-19 booster jab (Photo: Getty Images)

‘About 10’ people in hospital with Omicron as Sajid Javid makes booster plea

Sajid Javid has called on the public to get their booster dose before Christmas (Photo: Getty Images)

‘Top-up’ immunity and get booster jab before Christmas parties, Brits urged

The NHS booking service for booster jabs should be updated by 13 December (Photo: Getty Images)

Bookings for booster jabs to open for all ‘no later than December 13’

The JCVI has not yet advised on whether second jabs will be made available to healthy teenagers (image: Shutterstock)

Children younger than 12 could be given Covid jabs next year

'Record breaking' number of Covid-19 booster jabs given in a week by NHS England...

E-cigarettes could be given to smokers for free on the NHS as part of new plans to help people quit (TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images))

Smokers could be given e-cigarettes for free on the NHS

Nation urged to get Covid booster jab ‘to protect freedom and Christmas’ - what ...

Festival-goers will be able to get a vaccine as easily as a burger or a beer (Photo: Getty Images)

Covid jabs on line-up as ‘vaccine tent’ opens at Reading and Leeds festivals

Life-saving blood test for pregnant women to be available across NHS in England ...

Hepatitis C cure will now be available to under-12s on NHS in ‘world first’ (Photo by JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP via Getty Images)

Hepatitis C cure will now be available to under-12s on NHS in ‘world-first’

The Covid alert level in the UK has been downgraded to 'level 3' (Photo: Getty Images)

What Covid alert ‘level 3’ means as UK is downgraded ahead of next lockdown phas...

The treatment takes only five minutes to administer (Photo: Shutterstock)

‘Life-changer’ five minute breast cancer jab being rolled out to patients in Eng...

Moderna vaccine to be available in the UK from April - what you need to know abo...

More than 18 million people have now been given a first dose in England (Photo: Getty Images)

Covid vaccine rolling out to 56 to 59 age group in England - how to book your ap...

More than 20 million people in the UK have now received a first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine (Photo: Getty Images)

This is how the UK's Covid vaccine rollout is going - the data so far by nation ...

Test and Trace hospitality check-in data was ‘barely’ used - and thousands weren’t warned of Covid infection risk (Photo: Shutterstock)

Test and Trace hospitality check-in data was ‘barely’ used - and thousands weren...

The proposed pay rise has been described as "pitiful" (Photo: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Proposed 1% pay rise for NHS England branded ‘pitiful’ by nurses union and Labou...

The alert level has been lowered based on new data (Photo: Leon Neal/Getty Images)

UK's Covid alert level has been lowered from 5 to 4 - here's what that means

Nightclubs, gigs, cinemas and theatres are expected to have to wait until September before they can reopen (Photo: Getty Images)

Nightclubs and theatres expected to stay closed until 90% of UK have had Covid j...

The next five priority groups should be invited for their first vaccine dose by the end of April (Photo: Getty Images)

This is who will get Covid vaccine next as rollout moves into new phase

The UK is on track to reach the government target of 15 million first-dose vaccinations by mid-February (Photo: Getty Images)

All UK adults might get both Covid vaccine doses by end of summer - according to...

Icreasing the rollout to 600,000 jabs per day could allow restrictions to lift sooner (Photo: Getty Images)

Daily Covid vaccination rate must double to lift lockdown by May - is it feasibl...

All England care home residents and staff will get Covid jab within next 10 days...

Asda to offer first in-store supermarket Covid vaccinations - here’s how it will...

‘Worst is yet to come’ for Covid-19 infections - what you need to know

The first Oxford vaccine dose has been given in the UK - here’s the plan for the...

These are the signs of eating disorders in children - as parents are warned that...

More people are hospitalised with Covid in England than ever before

These 50 NHS England hospitals will receive the Covid vaccine first

Boris Johnson introduced 'Operation Moonshot' on Wednesday (Getty Images)

Here’s what you need to know about Boris Johnson’s mass testing plan Operation M...

A man in Chicago suffering with persistent hiccups went on to test positive for Covid-19. (Shutterstock)

A man with persistent hiccups was found to also have coronavirus - but are the t...

Here is what a trip to the dentist will look like

People with cancer, liver disease and severe asthma are among those who have been removed (Photo: Shutterstock)

These vulnerable groups have been taken off the coronavirus shielding list

Boris Johnson is expected to take the daily press briefing at 5pm (Getty Images)

Boris Johnson set to lead daily press briefing at 5pm - as government reviews lo...

This is what you need to know if you're diabetic (Photo: Shutterstock)

There may be a link between coronavirus deaths and diabetes - here’s what doctor...

Medical experts are currently investigating a possible link between coronavirus and an inflammatory disease found among infants (Photo: Shutterstock)

Here’s what you need to know about Kawasaki disease affecting children - and if ...

Health Secretary Matt Hancock has been accused of muddling the government's message on social distancing (Getty Images)

These are the lockdown rules for over-70s after the government's conflicting sta...

Government hits target of 100,000 coronavirus tests per day

Boris Johnson has not held a daily press briefing since he tested positive for coronavirus (Getty Images)

Boris Johnson will lead today's daily press conference - here's how to watch

1,662 additional coronavirus deaths have been recorded by ONS (Shutterstock)

More than 1,000 additional coronavirus deaths in care homes according to ONS fig...

Young people who vape could be more likely to start smoking cigarettes

Hospitals will carry out video consultations during coronavirus outbreak