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[ad_1] Strong protests have erupted across Brazil as the country’s skeptical Covid president Jair Bolsonaro struggled to defend his handling of the pandemic, claiming that citizens could soon resume their “normal lives” despite the high death toll. Bolsonaro, whose anti-scientific response to the coronavirus has drawn international condemnation, made a …

[ad_1] Boris Johnson faces harsh end-of-term questioning on COVID-19 by senior MPs after stating that the UK is making progress a year after its first lockdown. In addition to the prime minister’s latest question showdown with Sir Keir Starmer for three weeks, he faces questions from MPs who chair select …

[ad_1] TThis Tuesday was the national day of reflection to commemorate the anniversary of the beginning of the first confinement. Ideally, of course, it would have happened a week or two earlier if the prime minister hadn’t been so willing to take the coronavirus seriously. Boris Johnson hadn’t bothered to …

[ad_1] Viewers tuning in to watch Kate Garraway’s heartbreaking documentary Finding Derek have struggled to hold back tears in the opening moments. A distraught Kate, who revealed that she had not washed or brushed her hair for three days, showed her phone to the camera and showed a photo of …

[ad_1] He leads a press conference, flanked by Professor Chris Whitty, England’s chief medical officer, and Sir Patrick Vallance, the government’s chief scientific adviser. Meanwhile, AstraZeneca has defended its coronavirus vaccine data after US authorities claimed that some US-led trial results may have used “outdated information.” READ MORE AstraZeneca said: …

[ad_1] 60,000 additional deaths in private homes since the UK shutdown began Around 60,000 additional deaths have taken place in private homes in the UK since the shutdown began a year ago, a new analysis suggests. The additional deaths, known as “excess deaths,” are the above-average number of deaths for …

[ad_1] A NEW variant of Covid from New York arrived in the UK after health chiefs detected three cases. Experts fear that the new variant, called B.1.526, may have a mutation that could weaken the effectiveness of vaccines. 3 Three cases of the New York variant have been found in …

[ad_1] Whiskey, cheese and chocolate producers have suffered the biggest post-Brexit export losses in the food and beverage sector, new figures from HMRC show. Analysis of the Food and Drink Federation (FDF) figures shows that cheese exports in January plummeted from £ 45m to £ 7m year-on-year, while whiskey exports …

[ad_1] The UK has recorded 17 coronavirus deaths in the last 24-hour period, the lowest daily figure since the end of September. The number is a marked drop since last Monday, when the UK reported 52 deaths that had occurred within 28 days of a positive COVID-19 test. The last …

[ad_1] T The UK warned the European Commission not to “build walls” around the distribution of Covid vaccines after the EU threatened to block jab exports to the UK. On Sunday, commission chair Ursula von der Leyen stepped up the rhetoric, saying the EU has the power to “ban” exports …