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[ad_1] The blockade lifts ‘too far’, says Hancock Matt Hancock has said that the UK has detected 77 cases of the South African variant of Covid-19, as well as nine of a Brazilian variant. All 77 cases were connected to travel from South Africa and were being closely monitored, as …

[ad_1] Prisoners will not receive preferential treatment for Vaccine for COVID-19the Justice Ministry has said, amid reports inviting serial killer Levi Bellfield for his coronavirus prick. More than So far 6.3 million vaccines have been administered in the UK, with 5.9 million of these first doses, with the over 70s, …

[ad_1] Boris Johnson ‘will force travelers from high-risk Covid countries to quarantine themselves in hotels for ten days’ in the decision to be made on Monday PM favors targeted approach rather than quarantining all air passengers Travelers from Brazil and South Africa will be greeted upon arrival and escorted to …

[ad_1] Long queue scenes emerged at Heathrow Airport for a second day, raising concerns about a lack of social distancing. Images circulating on social media, including one of high-level diplomat Sir Peter Westmacott, appeared to show queues of people on border patrol without obvious social distancing Friday afternoon. On Saturday …

[ad_1] Russian police on Saturday detained more than 2,100 people attending peaceful demonstrations in support of jailed opposition activist Alexei Navalny, in a violent response to national protests that will become the largest in the country in years. Navalny, the most prominent critic of President Vladimir Putin, was jailed this …

[ad_1] The variant of the coronavirus first identified in South Africa could cut the effectiveness of vaccines in half, the health secretary said. Matt Hancock made the comment during a webinar with business leaders and travel agents on Tuesday. First reported by Mail Online, a recording of the meeting was …

[ad_1] AstraZeneca will reduce deliveries of the Oxford COVID-19 vaccine to the European Union by 60% in the first quarter of the year, according to the Reuters news agency. The company was expected to deliver around 80 million doses to the 27 EU countries by the end of March, an …

[ad_1] There was confusion tonight about just how deadly the Kent coronavirus variant really is after 10 SAGE studies came to wildly different conclusions about its lethality and the World Health Organization said it hadn’t seen any convincing data yet. Boris Johnson and his chief scientists tonight made the shocking …

[ad_1] secondBeyond Downing Street, the World Health Organization has said it has yet to see data to support the UK’s announcement that variant B.1.1.7 is “deadlier” and more communicable. At a virtual press conference that took place concurrently with the Downing Street briefing, Dr. Mike Ryan, director of the WHO …

[ad_1] More than 5,000,000 people in the UK have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, according to the latest government figures. A total of 5,383,103 have received the first puncture, and so far another 466,796 people have also received their second inoculation against the virus. It comes …