Coronavirus

Lockdowns may have long since passed, but their impact is still being felt in UK schools

5 ways children’s education is still being impacted by the pandemic

Full Support Healthcare in Huxley Close, Park Farm Industrial Estate, Wellingborough/National World

PPE purchase a 'staggering waste' and 'colossal misuse of public funds'

Temple Court care home

'Missed opportunities' to take action before some care home residents died

Betty Steele from Corby died in Kettering General Hospital in 2020

Corby gran's Covid death is part of landmark legal action

Covid vaccinations are still available

People in Northamptonshire urged to get COVID-19 jab before offer ends

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Most vulnerable in Northamptonshire invited to book Covid-19 Spring jabs

Gwyn Pritchard, one of the charity's long-standing trustees and experienced counsellor

Counselling service urges people not to suffer in silence

Northamptonshire's vaccination centre at Moulton Park will close its doors for the final time on Saturday

After 320,000 jabs in 22 months, Covid vaccination centre closes down

A new bivalent vaccine now being offered to over-50s in Northamptonshire targets the original Covid-19 variant and the newer Omicron one.

More Covid patients in county hospitals as over-50s offered booster jabs

NGH and KGH have both seen an increase in the number of Covid patients in the last week.

Hospitals bring back face masks and visiting restrictions after Covid cases rise

Could you be a steward volunteer?

NHS calls for more steward volunteers to boost community's immunity in North Nor...

Don't ignore calls to get your COVID-19 booster jab

People urged not to ignore COVID-19 booster invitation

Covid deaths in Northamptonshire peaked during the early days of the pandemic as hospitals were inundated with patients during April 2020

Covid’s ‘grim human toll’ revealed as figures show 1,771 more deaths than normal

Care home resident Agnes Taylor, 93, is among the first to receive the latest Covid jab as the autumn booster rollout begins today

How to book an autumn Covid booster vaccine in Northants and who can get it

Physicians associates in the Covid Medicines Delivery Unit team are helping deliver potentially life-saving drugs to vulnerable patients at Kettering General Hospital

Doctors continue fight against Covid as number of virus deaths at KGH nears 800

Tree of Hope at The Green Patch Kettering with l-r Kimberley Lawson, Fern Gibson, (Northamptonshire Community Foundation) and Kate Williams

Tree of Hope art unveiled at Kettering's Green Patch
The Tree of Hope is designed as a ‘legacy of hope’ post Covid
Alison Bagley

More than 100 Northamptonshire youngsters missed time in class after breaching Covid rules

How many pupils were excluded by county schools for breaching Covid rules

Health chiefs in Northamptonshire are "strongly recommending" a return to wearing face coverings in shops and other crowded areas to halt a rise in Covid cases

Health chiefs 'strongly recommend' return of face masks in crowded areas

Research shows fatigue is the most common symptom of Long Covid

Tens of thousands of people in Northamptonshire estimated to have long Covid

Staff, patients and visitors are being asked to wear face coverings at Northamptonshire's two big NHS hospitals following a Covid spike

Hospitals bring back face masks rules to combat rise in Covid patients

Northamptonshire people are being urged to get their vaccinations over the summer.

Northamptonshire’s rising cases sees fresh call to get Covid-19 vaccinations

UK health chief Dr Mary Ramsey urged everyone to keep up to date with vaccinations after warning 'Covid has not gone away'

Here’s what health chiefs are saying as Covid cases and hospitalisations rise in...

Margaret Keenan, 91, who was first to get a Covid jab in the UK, received her spring booster shot in Coventry last month

Vaccine boss hails jabs success as Covid patients drop 80 percent in four weeks

A drop-in Covid jab clinic will be set up at Saturday's Eid event on Northampton's Racecourse

Drop-in Covid jabs clinic at Racecourse Eid event this weekend

Official figures estimate around 20,000 people in Northamptonshire are affected by long Covid

Northants hospitals offering help for county's 20,000 long Covid sufferers

Hundreds of elderly hospital patients were discharged into Northamptonshire care homes during the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic

Bereaved families of Covid-19 victims in county care homes could sue government

Moulton Park is one of three sites where drop-in jabs are available for those as young as five

Drop-in jabs open for five-year-olds as more Covid patients fill hospital beds
‘Getting children jabbed helps protect them from worst of Covid and reduces risk to those around them,’ says county vaccine chief
Kevin Nicholls

Reminding people to stay aware of coronavirus symptoms and to take lateral flow test

Beware of coronavirus symptoms and take lateral flow test urges leading pharmacy

Dr Amir Khan delivered a stark warning over the rise in Covid cases on GMB on Thursday morning

Telly doc’s warning as Covid patients hit 14-month high in county hospitals

Health chiefs are stepping up efforts to deliver Covid jabs following a rise in patients with the virus in Northamptonshire hospitals

Clinics offer drop-in Covid spring boosters in bid to keep pressure off NHS

Northampton magistrates fined Linnane £400 after he lied to jump the queue for Covid jabs

Man, 51, lands £400 fine over lies to get Covid vaccination a month early

Team members Vivien Walton (left) and Samantha Conway decorate the new children’s area of the Moulton Park vaccination centre.

County five-year-olds to be offered Covid jabs from this weekend

Free home Covid testing ends on Thursday (March 31) just as hospital cases have doubles in Northamptonshire in less than a month

Covid patients DOUBLE in hospitals as free home testing ends

Headteachers fear a rise in Covid-related absences could impact upcoming exams for Northamptonshire students

Heads warn spiking Covid-related absences in schools could damage exam grades

Invitations are being sent out to the county's most vulnerable offering a spring booster Covid-19 vaccination

Covid-19: Spring booster invitations going to most vulnerable as cases rise

Charity Marie Curie is designating March 23 as a National Day of Reflection, two years on from the first Covid lockdown

Covid-19: County's grim death toll two years on from first national lockdown

Travellers at Gatwick Airport on July 30, 2021 in London, England. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Major changes to UK Covid travel rules come into effect

Free Covid tests are already in short supply before being scrapped completely from April 1

County hospitals dealing with more Covid patients ahead of end to free testing

The areas in Northamptonshire where Deltacron is driving cases higher.

Which 17 neighbourhoods have seen Covid cases DOUBLE in a week

All restrictions on socialising and mask-wearing were lifted last month. Library picture

'Covid's not gone away' warning as deaths and hospital cases rise in county

Health secretary Sajid Javid has scrapped requirements for care home workers to be vaccinated against Covid-19

U-turn on 'no jab, no job' for care workers as Covid deaths rise in homes

Covid passenger locator forms are expected to be axed before Easter (Photo: Getty Images)

‘Complicated’ Covid travel requirement set to change ahead of Easter

A disability charity says vulnerable people will be "rolling the dice" every time they leave home now Covid rules are scrapped

County's 50,000 vulnerable people 'rolling the dice' every time they go out

Activities co-ordinator, Sam Rix, has launched a petition against the council's decision to exclude non-carer care home workers from a £600 bonus.

Care staff launch petition against council's decision about bonus eligibility

Charities fear removing the need for testing in care homes will increase risk of residents catching the virus

Six new deaths in care homes linked to virus after PM scraps rules on visits

Boris Johnson will set out his ‘living with Covid’ plan today (Photo: Getty Images)

All the Covid rule changes set to be announced by Boris Johnson today

Visiting will be less restricted at the hospitals.

Visiting restrictions at Northamptonshire’s hospitals partially lifted

More than 180 operations had to be put back at NGH and KGH during three months to December - but none were delayed more than 28 days.

NHS reveals more than 180 operations delayed at county hospitals

Around 24,000 Northamptonshire students have yet to receive a Covid vaccine dose

Thousands of teens have not had one jab as PM gets set to scrap Covid isolation

Northamptonshire's interim health chief says the PM's plan to axe Covid quarantine rules relies on people taking 'personal responsibility'

PM scrapping Covid isolation rules was 'bit of a surprise,' says health chief

Travel rules have relaxed for UK arrivals from 11 February (Photo: Getty Images)

Major changes to Covid travel rules from today as testing is scrapped

KGH housekeeper Christine Smith keeps things clean with the help of Private Charlie Jones

Old soldier charms Army staff during stint supporting NHS staff at Kettering Gen...

PM Boris Johnson leaves Downing Street before Wednesday's PMQs

PM will end all Covid restrictions this month despite 140,000 unjabbed in county

Prince William School, Oundle

Hundreds of Northants school pupils told 'stay at home' as Covid hits

l-r Chaplain Rev Neil Tyrer, Michael Maynard, Gilly Berridge, James Steele, KGH director of human resources Paula Kirkpatrick and chief executive Deborah Needham.

Memorial stone laid at Kettering General Hospital to commemorate those lost to C...