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UK statement during the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Council on 16-17 March 2023.

• Updated: 17 March 2023

During the 52nd session of the UN Human Rights Council, the UK delivered a statement on the report on access to COVID-19 vaccines.

• Updated: 17 March 2023

UKHSA, ONS and the University of Oxford are thanking over 500,000 people from across the UK for their contribution to the COVID-19 Infection Survey.

• Updated: 9 March 2023

Adults aged 75 and over, residents in a care home for older adults and immunosuppressed individuals will be eligible for a spring booster.

• Updated: 8 March 2023

JCVI advises vaccine top-up for over-75s, immunosuppressed and residents in care homes for older adults.

• Updated: 7 March 2023

This adapted COVID-19 vaccine targets both the original coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) and the Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 sub-variants.

• Updated: 21 February 2023

Nearly 17.5 million eligible people received their COVID-19 autumn booster jab, with tens of thousands coming forward in the final week of the programme.

• Updated: 18 February 2023

The UK Commission on Covid Commemoration is now considering all responses and final recommendations will be put to Government in Spring.

• Updated: 17 February 2023

JCVI makes interim recommendations to government on the COVID-19 vaccination programme for 2023.

• Updated: 25 January 2023

The UK Commission on Covid Commemoration held its sixth meeting.

• Updated: 24 January 2023

From today, the Rosalind Franklin Laboratory will cease to process PCR tests for COVID-19 in response to reduced demand.

• Updated: 17 January 2023

Offer of free personal protective equipment (PPE) for frontline health and care staff extended until 31 March 2024.

• Updated: 10 January 2023

From this week, UKHSA launches a new COVID-19 surveillance programme, sequencing positive COVID-19 tests from a sample of passengers flying in from China to Heathrow.

• Updated: 10 January 2023

The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Steve Barclay, updated Parliament on what the government is doing to help the NHS deal with immediate winter pressures.

• Updated: 9 January 2023

Measures introduced to improve the UK’s ability to detect potential new variants of COVID-19 from China.

• Updated: 9 January 2023

As pupils and students return to school following the Christmas break, UKHSA is reminding people that winter illnesses continue to circulate at high levels.

• Updated: 2 January 2023

England joins a growing list of countries across the world to announce temporary measures as COVID cases rise in China ahead of borders re-opening next week.

• Updated: 30 December 2022

Moderna to invest in mRNA research and development (R&D) in the UK, and build a state-of-the-art vaccine manufacturing centre with the ability to produce up to 250 million vaccines a year.

• Updated: 22 December 2022

This new vaccine, VidPrevtyn Beta, has been authorised after meeting the MHRA’s required safety, quality and effectiveness standards.

• Updated: 21 December 2022

The UK Commission on Covid Commemoration held its fifth meeting.

• Updated: 19 December 2022