More people are dying with coronavirus in a Kent hospitals trust than anywhere else in England, new figures reveal.

The public have been urged to treat NHS services "wisely" after a surge in Covid cases puts hospitals and ambulance service under extreme pressure.

Health chiefs say they are delighted with the approval of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine - as they prepare to immunise thousands more against Covid.

Two doctors' practices have been closed after staff members developed Covid-19.

A web link has been published to let anyone in Kent's two highest Covid hotspots get free coronavirus tests as long as they don't have any symptoms.

Leaders of a busy GP practice with 10 staff members in self-isolation because of Covid-19 say local infection rates remain 'stubbornly high'.

A "logistical nightmare" prevented GPs in one town offering the Pfizer jab but the Oxford vaccine has offered hope.

Covid-19 cases have dropped in some areas for the first time in weeks - but the county has seen a rise overall as hospitals struggle with capacity.

A group of community pharmacists were drafted in at short notice to ensure the safe and effective rollout of the Covid-19 vaccine at a hospital.

The Covid-19 vaccine has been given to the first group of frontline NHS and healthcare workers in Kent.

Coronavirus vaccines have been issued to more frontline workers as another hospital started rolling out the jab.

An antibody therapy which could offer instant protection against coronavirus is being trialled by British scientists, it has been reported.

More than 10,000 coronavirus tests have now been carried out on lorry drivers stranded in Kent, with only 24 testing positive.

A one-year-old boy who turned blue and stopped breathing was saved after an emergency app contacted a nearby first responder.

Patients and medical staff were trapped inside a hospital after a man with a screwdriver threatened staff, it is claimed.

Tributes have been paid to a woman who devoted years to campaigning for improvements to local health services who has died in hospital.

A distraught daughter has questioned why a hospital had Covid patients on the same ward as her dad after the 80-year-old caught the illness and died.

Special testing centres have identified almost 500 Covid carriers who had no symptoms.

Figures released today show that almost one in a 100 people could have Covid in a part of the county.

Boris Johnson is due to hold a press conference this afternoon following reports of introduction of Tier 4 restrictions over Christmas.