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UK Government is ‘working on vaccine passports’ for British people to go on summer holidays amid signs Greece will drop quarantine rules for those who can prove they’ve had jab Ministers working on different options for vaccine passport to open up holidays Greece said to be preparing to waive quarantine for people who have had … Read more
The British Government didn’t know Harry Dunn’s alleged killer was a spy, Boris Johnson’s spokesman revealed today. UK authorities have been urged to re-investigate whether Anne Sacoolas, 43, had diplomatic immunity when she and her husband Jonathan ‘fled’ the country in 2019. The Alexandria district court in Virginia was told Mrs Sacoolas was ’employed by … Read more
Boris Johnson is ‘bailing out’ Nicola Sturgeon’s stuttering vaccination programme in Scotland by deploying more military personnel to speed it up, a minister said today. Jacob Rees-Mogg made the claim as he batted away SNP demands for more money for Scotland, to be used by politicians there. British Army medics began helping administer jabs in the country … Read more
Pressure on NHS intensive care has started to ease for the first time since the second wave of coronavirus took off and Test and Trace data shows cases of the disease are down 41 per cent in a fortnight. All key metrics now indicate the darkest days of the winter crisis are behind us, with the … Read more
TV presenter Beverley Turner, who has previously questioned lockdowns, has revealed she refused to clap in memory of Captain Sir Tom Moore because she felt it maintained ‘the fear that imminent death is all around’. The journalist and broadcaster, 47, also appeared to object to the applause on the basis it had been used by … Read more
Oxford University and AstraZeneca plan to have a new Covid vaccine ready by the autumn to tackle new variants of the coronavirus, they confirmed yesterday. Growing evidence suggests that a mutation first found in the South African variant of the virus, and now cropping up elsewhere, can reduce how well current vaccines work because it … Read more
Pressure on NHS intensive care has started to ease for the first time since the second wave of coronavirus took off and Test and Trace data shows cases of the disease are down 41 per cent in a fortnight. All key metrics now indicate the darkest days of the winter crisis are behind us, with the … Read more
The World Health Organization investigators in Wuhan say they have been given data ‘no-one has seen before’ and have not ruled out that Covid escaped from a lab. Dr Peter Daszak, a British zoologist on the WHO team, said last night that China was being open with them and allowing them to explore wherever the evidence leads. But … Read more
Britain today hit the major milestone of vaccinating 10million people against coronavirus — but critics have demanded No10 gets a grip on the ‘lackadaisical approach’ to dishing out jabs on Sundays. Despite the lockdown-ending inoculation drive being a success, a trend has emerged showing a sharp drop-off in uptake on Sundays. For example last Sunday … Read more
Boris Johnson today promised Arlene Foster the UK Government will ‘do everything we can’ to make trade to Northern Ireland smoother as he demanded the EU take ‘urgent action’ to relax checks on goods. The PM spoke to the First Minister of Northern Ireland this morning amid a worsening row over post-Brexit customs checks which … Read more