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[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 …

[ad_1] ARivals from 30 countries are now subject to travel bans in the UK after Transport Secretary Grant Shapps added two more to the list on Thursday. “To help stop the spread of the identified COVID-19 variant in South Africa, we ban all arrivals from Tanzania and the Democratic Republic …

[ad_1] The percentage of people testing positive for COVID-19 in England has declined slightly but remains high, according to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). About one in 55 people who were not in nursing homes, hospitals, or other institutional settings virus in the week ending …

[ad_1] My fellow citizens, in the work ahead we will need each other. We need all our strength to persevere in this dark winter. We are entering what may be the virus’s darkest and deadliest period. We must put politics aside and finally confront this pandemic as one nation, one …

[ad_1] Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell is proposing to delay the start of Donald Trump’s impeachment by a week or more so that the former president has time to review the case. House Democrats who voted to impeach Trump last week for inciting the Jan. 6 attack on Capitol Hill …

[ad_1] Joe Biden has signed 10 executive orders aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus in the United States. On his first full day in office, the newly inaugurated president launched new measures on vaccines, masks and tests. He attacked Donald Trump’s handling of the pandemic, saying his predecessor’s …

[ad_1] A major fire has broken out at the site of the world’s largest coronavirus vaccine maker. Today plumes of smoke can be seen rising from the Serum Institute of India (SII). Millions of doses of the Covidshield vaccine, developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford, are being produced …

[ad_1] The Secretary of Education, Gavin Williamson, has indicated to the students that in a week they could be informed if they will return to the classrooms after the February semester. Appearing on Sky News, Williamson said his Department of Education “would like to give all schools a two-week notice …