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[ad_1] The highest number of Covid deaths since April and the discovery of a second new variant of the virus led to stark warnings that ministers are acting too slowly by waiting until Boxing Day to put 6 million more people on the restrictions. more stringent. A portion of England …

[ad_1] Millions of families across the UK were forced to scrap Christmas plans this week after another government U-turn. Having previously said that people could form “Christmas bubbles” for five days from today, Boris Johnson, panicked, was forced to scrap the plan on Saturday. He said a new strain of …

[ad_1] Nearly 450 new coronavirus cases have been recorded in Leicester and Leicestershire in the past 24 hours. The Department of Health and Human Care has updated daily new infection totals showing 293 new infections across the county and 150 in the city. That’s five cases less that was reported …

[ad_1] England’s cricket stars do not need to quarantine themselves over Christmas and New Years, the ECB confirmed. Players like Jofra Archer and Joe Root waited nervously after Health Secretary Matt Hancock stated on Wednesday that two cases of another new strain of Covid-19, linked to South Africa, had been …

[ad_1] The wife of a man who barely survived Covid-19 says she was so convinced he would die that she planned his funeral while he clung to life. Wayne Oldham, 46, spent 11 weeks in the hospital after the virus attacked his lungs and described experiencing “constant nightmares” while in …

[ad_1] The UK has recorded its biggest daily increase in coronavirus-related deaths since late April, and a record rise in cases for the second day in a row. The death toll, 744, is the highest daily figure since April 29, and the increase in cases, 39,237, is the highest since …

[ad_1] Two cases of a new “more transmissible” COVID-19 variant linked to South Africa have been identified in the UK, the Health Secretary said. Both cases are contacts of people who traveled from South Africa in recent weeks, Matt Hancock told a news conference in Downing Street. Those with the …

[ad_1] Large areas of England will join London, the South East and the East of England at Level 4, amid a surge in Covid-19 cases and the alarm over a rapidly spreading new strain of coronavirus. The new areas include Sussex, Oxfordshire, Suffolk, Norfolk, and Cambridgeshire, the parts of Essex …

[ad_1] Two cases of a new “more transmissible” COVID-19 variant linked to South Africa have been identified in the UK, the Health Secretary said. Both cases are contacts of people who traveled from South Africa in recent weeks, Matt Hancock told a news conference in Downing Street. Those with the …

[ad_1] TThe international mission of the World Health Organization to China to investigate the origins of Covid-19 will explore all avenues and does not seek to find “guilty” parties, a team member told the AFP news agency. The researchers will head to China in January and to Wuhan, where the …