E-gate failure shows UK is unprepared for the EU’s new Entry/Exit scheme

[ Europe’s border checks are set to change as part of post-Brexit travel arrangements (Photo: Nathan Laine/Bloomberg via Getty Images) More than 270 e-gates rolled out at 15 air and rail ports across the UK since a pilot at Manchester and Stansted airports in 2008 were installed to make border control cheaper and more efficient … Read more

Long Covid patients could get more targeted care due to ‘telltale’ traces in blood

[ People with long Covid have distinct patterns of inflammation detectable in the blood which could potentially be targeted with immune therapies, the largest study of its kind has revealed. In an analysis of more than 650 people who had been hospitalised with severe Covid-19, patients with prolonged symptoms showed evidence of immune system activation. … Read more

Most people vulnerable to long Covid have already had it, says top NHS adviser

[ Most people who are going to get long Covid have probably already got it, the NHS’s top adviser on the condition has told i. Melissa Heightman, national specialty adviser for long Covid for NHS England, said a first Covid infection is much more likely to lead to long Covid than subsequent infections and the … Read more