Public Health England

London has seen zero coronavirus deaths for the first time in six months, according to data released by Public Health England (PHE).

Susan Hopkins, a specialist in infectious diseases at Public Health England, said that Britons should wear masks made with at least two, or even three, layers, and left open the possibility that the UK might follow the U.S.’s lead and recommend double masking.

The New York Times has been accused of spreading false information about the United Kingdom’s coronavirus vaccine guidelines, after publishing a reportedly misleading article and post on social media.

The official coronavirus death toll in England could be reduced by 10 per cent due to the flawed counting system whereby anyone who has tested positive would have their death attributed to the Chinese virus, even if they died months later of a heart attack.

Jonathan Van-Tam, the Deputy Chief Medical Officer for England, has warned that the Chinese coronavirus may be seasonal, and that society will likely have to “learn to live” with it for months and possibly “several years”. 

Boris Johnson’s government has decided that face coverings, actively discouraged until now, do in fact work after all, as the coronavirus lockdown begins to ease. 

The British government will finally begin implementing mandatory 14-day quarantines for people entering the country, months after countries around the world enacted similar measures to prevent the spread of the Chinese coronavirus.

Britain’s response to the coronavirus crisis has been seriously impaired by Public Health England (PHE), which has proved itself to be “dangerously slow, excessively bureaucratic, and hostile to outsiders and innovation”.

The government is trialling coronavirus testing kits which, if they work, will be rolled out to National Health Service (NHS) staff, and may eventually be available for public use.

An academic study has concluded that there is little evidence eating red meat causes health problems and that most people should not reduce their meat intake, causing outrage amongst anti-meat scientists.

For the first time since wartime restrictions were finally lifted in 1954, the British government is planning a return to rationing.

Police closed roads and called a hazardous response team Sunday night after two people became ill at a restaurant in the English city where a Russian ex-spy and his daughter were poisoned with a chemical nerve agent.

Cases of syphilis and gonorrhea have risen by one fifth in England in just one year, mostly among gay men, according to a report released Wednesday by Public Health England (PHE).