The third wave of the coronavirus...

The third wave of the coronavirus is gaining steam in the U.S.: The virus is spreading throughout the U.S. It's not concentrated in any one region, as it was during the previous waves. 

UK: There’s a financial incentive for councils to lock down

There’s a financial incentive for councils to lock down: the government promised a total of £1 billion in financial support to local authorities under the new three-tier lockdown system. Areas subjected to Tier 2 lockdowns will be granted £1 per head of the population, and £2 per head for Tier 3. Meanwhile, £30million has been earmarked for local authorities to pay for Covid marshals and other ‘compliance and enforcement’ activities.

Sweden's COVID-19 strategy has failed, but nobody will admit it

Swedish virologist says her country's COVID-19 strategy has failed, but nobody will admit it: Eight months after the start of the global pandemic, Sweden is changing its COVID-19 strategy — but virologist Dr. Lena Einhorn says it's far too little, too late.

Maria Van Kerkhove: 'There are no inevitable subsequent peaks or waves of coronavirus'

Dr Maria Van Kerkhove: 'There are no inevitable subsequent peaks or waves of coronavirus': Maria Van Kerkhove is an American epidemiologist and a technical lead on the World Health Organisation's Covid-19 response programme. She spoke to the Telegraph’s Global Health Security team about how coronavirus has worsened existing inequalities, the gendered nature of the international community's response, and why repeated waves of the disease are far from 'inevitable'.

Eight Persistent COVID-19 Myths

Eight Persistent COVID-19 Myths and Why People Believe Them: From a human-made virus to vaccine conspiracy theories, we rounded up the most insidious false claims about the pandemic

1 The virus was engineered in a laboratory in China.

2 COVID-19 is no worse than the flu.

3 You don’t need to wear a mask.

4 Wealthy elites are using the virus to profit from vaccines.

5 Hydroxychloroquine is an effective treatment.

6 Increases in cases are the result of increased testing.

7 Herd immunity will protect us if we let the virus spread through the population.

8 A COVID-19 vaccine will be unsafe.