Hospital admissions

Cases of Covid are on the rise thanks to the new XEC Covid variant.

'Covid: symptoms and new variants explained as hospitalisations rise

A Greece travel warning has been issued as there has been a surge in Covid hospitalisations in the country due to an outbreak of the new FLiRT variant of the virus. (Photo: Getty Images)

Warning for holidaymakers after Covid outbreak in travel hotspot

A new Covid variant has caused an increase in hospital admissions across the UK. (Photo: Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images)

Summer Covid symptoms as cases of new variant FLiRT increase

Idris Elba stands in front of an installation of over 200 bundles of clothing representing the lives lost to Knife crime in the UK as he calls on the Government to take immediate action to prevent serious youth violence at Parliament Square on January 08, 2024. (Photo by Jeff Spicer/Getty Images for Don't Stop Your Future)

Watch as Idris Elba calls for immediate ban on zombie knives

Millions to miss out on Covid booster as NHS slashes eligibility

A new variant of Covid named Eris has emerged as figures show a spike in hospital admissions this summer

New Covid variant found in UK

The latest Covid figures in Scotland on Tuesday, January 18 (Photo: John Devlin).

31 deaths and 7,752 Covid cases reported in latest figures

A medical worker prepares a BioNtech-Pfizer Covid-19 coronavirus vaccine at a colisium in Makati City, suburban Manila on November 29, 2021, as the Southeast Asian nation launched a three-day vaccination drive targeting nine million people as young as 12 in an effort to accelerate the roll-out of jabs, amidst the threat of heavily mutated coronavirus variant Omicron. (Photo by Ted ALJIBE / AFP) (Photo by TED ALJIBE/AFP via Getty Images)

Covid Scotland - your views online

Miles Briggs quoted the mother of a childhood friend who died a drug-related death

Drug-related hospital admissions soar in Lothian

Scotland has been locked down for over a month - so is it working? (Getty Images)

Is lockdown in Scotland working?

Boris Johnson made what looked like an open-ended commitment to maintain furlough payments in Scotland for however long a full lockdown here lasts, says John McLellan (Picture: Handout/PRU/AFP via Getty Images)

How Johnson may just have given a blank cheque to Sturgeon – John McLellan

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.

Nicola Sturgeon to announce further dates for lockdown easing

Dreadnought responds to announcement that pubs can reopen in England

Edinburgh pub has hilarious response to pubs reopening in England

Nicola Sturgeon will give more details about easing of lockdown on Wednesday.

Nicola Sturgeon to give more details about easing of lockdown on Wednesday