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It’s not clear whether the Covid Winter Grant Scheme is intended to replace free school meals.

Pupils and staff in England can avoid self-isolating after contact with a covid case if they take seven daily tests.

Ministers have insisted the UK is on track to hit a target of offering a Covid-19 vaccine to almost 14 million people by the middle of next month. But questions remain about the supply of vaccines.

The World Health Organization has said it does not recommend the approach Britain is taking in vaccinating large numbers of people against coronavirus. Should we be worried? 

With two coronavirus vaccines now available in the UK, FactCheck readers have started to ask: is it possible to get the first dose from one manufacturer and the second from another? And is it safe?

All the evidence suggests the number of vaccine doses available for immediate use falls well short of the 40 million that we were originally supposed to have by this stage.

A senior official from Kent County Council’s Highways department said there were “nearer 500” lorries involved in Operation Stack.

Here’s what we know and what we don’t know, according to some of the country’s leading experts.

SAGE papers suggest around half of positive cases are missed when the tests are done by non-experts.

Shaun Bailey says Sadiq Khan wants to raise mayoral council tax by 21 per cent.

Sir Keir claimed: ‘The Prime Minister said he had a deal. He didn’t.’

£34bn for the NHS and 40 new hospitals? There’s more to these claims than meets the eye.

The first batch of Pfizer vaccine to arrive in the UK consists of just 800,000 doses, but NHS bosses say they expect to have more by the end of the year.

In fact, the UK regulator used EU law to authorise the jab.