With dozens dying each day and staff shortages, doctors and nurses banded together, treated and even carried out researchThere is only one Covid-19 patient left in Melbourne’s St Vincent’s hospital, where intensive care physician Dr Barry Dixon works. He still finds it hard not to focus on the bad days he experienced during the peak of Victoria’s second wave when upwards of 60 patients were...

Neither remdesivir nor REGN-COV2 have completed large-scale randomised trials, say UK scientistsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageScientists still lack conclusive proof that the two anti-Covid drugs given to Donald Trump are clinically effective.UK researchers point out that both medicines – remdesivir and REGN-COV2 – have still to complete the large-scale,...

Scientists concerned that soaring infection rates in capital’s care homes and hospitals may be occurring in other UK regionsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageCovid infection rates among doctors, nurses, and other hospital and care home staff have risen more than fivefold over the past month in London, scientists have discovered. The figures – provided by the Francis...

Oxford University professor says experimental treatment is promising and ‘very potent’Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe experimental coronavirus drug that Donald Trump is receiving is in use in a small number of UK hospitals, according to an Oxford University professor.The US president was given an artificial antibody treatment at the White House on Friday after...

Four years after leaving orbit, and with a second mission on the horizon, how is life on Earth for the first Briton to walk in space?• Read an exclusive extract from Limitless, Tim Peake’s autobiography When the astronaut Tim Peake was living aboard the International Space Station (ISS) back in 2016 – he was the first Briton ever to do so – he got into the habit of taking his toothbrush to...

The British astronaut describes a close call on arriving at the International Space Station• ‘Coming home was a harsh transition. Gravity sucks!’: read an interview with Tim Peake Yuri Malenchenko is one of the most accomplished Russian cosmonauts in history. By December 2015 he is already the veteran of five separate missions and has logged just over 641 days in orbit, which means he has...

World Health Organization gives green light to second test that gives results in up to 30 minutes; Melbourne cluster growsWhite House doctor: president is ‘fatigued but in good spirits’Trump’s symptoms include low-grade fever and cough, reports sayBiden: Trump’s test ‘bracing reminder’ to ‘take this virus seriously’Biden and his wife test negative for coronavirus 5.13am BST Back to...