Subscribe to the Evening Standard on YouTube: Deliberately allowing Covid-19 to spread in the hope of achieving so-called herd immunity is “unethical”, an expert has warned. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the concept, which occurs when a large portion…

Subscribe to the Evening Standard on YouTube: The number of people who have died from coronavirus across the world has passed one million, according to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins University. Nine months into the pandemic, the bleak milestone…

Subscribe to the Evening Standard on YouTube: Hopes for a successful coronavirus vaccine have been raised after scientists in Oxford reported trials showing positive early results. Researchers believe they have made a breakthrough after discovering the jab could provide “double…

Subscribe to the Evening Standard on YouTube: A Covid-19 test centre for NHS workers has opened at Ikea’s Wembley store. The testing centre could be one of several NHS coronavirus testing sites set up at Ikea branches, the Swedish furniture…