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The number of Covid-19 patients in hospital has more than doubled over the past two weeks

ORLANDO, Fla. — At least six people in Florida have died in what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday called “one of the worst outbreaks of meningococcal disease among gay and bisexual men in U.S. history,” with state and health officials and LGBTQ+ groups scrambling to alert…

The House of Commons voted 215 to 70, majority 145, in favour of the Abortion (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2022.

He said the virus has "taken advantage of some loopholes in our immunity"

The centre carried out a whopping 44,278 swabs over the course of the last six months

It is ‘unacceptable’ there are women and girls unable to access services due to a political impasse at Stormont, Parliament is told

Dr Cathy Jack and Health Minister Robin Swann apologised to patients for system failings and missed opportunities around the work of Dr Michael Watt.

They have called for accountability from the Belfast Health Trust.

It makes 76 recommendations to the Department of Health, healthcare organisations, General Medical Council and the independent sector

The work of the Belfast-based neurologist Dr Michael Watt was at the centre of Northern Ireland’s largest ever recall of patients.

The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control predicted last month that there could be a new Covid wave driven by the increase of the BA.5 and BA.4 variants.