Feb 25, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic and the restrictions it has made necessary have had a significant impact on the education, health and social development of our children and young people. Throughout the pandemic, UKHSA has worked closely with the Department for Education,...
Feb 24, 2022
The Government has published its Living with COVID-19 plan, which announced the end of legal restrictions (such as the legal requirement to self-isolate if you have COVID-19) and the scaling down of population-wide testing. Continuing the careful path towards living...
Feb 11, 2022
I was told aged 13 that I should consider becoming a biology teacher by my school careers advisor. Biology was one of my favourite lessons and this planted the seed that I could go on to study it in higher education. I was the first in my family to go into science and...
Feb 10, 2022
*Data presented in this blog is accurate as of Thursday, February 10, but is subject to change over time. For the latest data on vaccine effectiveness, read the UKHSA’s Vaccine Surveillance Reports, published weekly. Since the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines began, the...
Feb 4, 2022
At the beginning of the pandemic, little was known about the novel coronavirus we now know as SARS-CoV-2 – or as its commonly called COVID-19. Two of the things we did not know were how long an infection lasts or whether you could be infected more than once. We have...
Feb 1, 2022
More than one in ten eligible children under the age of five in England haven’t had the MMR vaccine or are only partially vaccinated. This leaves these children unprotected and increases the risk of measles outbreaks occurring in nurseries and schools. We are...
