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100,000 deaths: reflecting on those we have lost
100,000 lives lost: a figure that seemed inconceivable a year ago.
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Johnson ‘deeply sorry’ as UK Covid deaths exceed 100,000
Boris Johnson has given a personal apology for the 100,000 lives lost to Covid in the UK.
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‘The more social distancing, the faster the virus will decay’ – SAGE scientist Sir Mark Walport
We’re joined by Professor Sir Mark Walport, who is a SAGE adviser and former Chief Scientific Adviser.
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UK quarantine hotels could be set up to combat Covid spread
Travellers arriving in Britain from coronavirus hotspots could be made to quarantine in designated hotels, to limit the spread of new variants of the virus. Ministers are meeting this evening to discuss the proposals. They could be imposed on people flying in from parts of the world where virulent new strains have broken out, like…
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EU threatens to impose controls on Pfizer vaccine exports
The government has insisted that vaccine supplies to the UK won’t be affected, after the European Commission threatened to block exports of vaccines manufactured inside the EU.
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CCTV footage of hours leading up to man’s death shown in public for first time
CCTV footage of the hours leading up to death of a man in police custody has been shown in public for the first time in seven years.
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House sends Trump impeachment article to Senate
The first steps in Mr Trump’s impeachment trial have begun.
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Why historic injustices are causing vaccine hesitancy among ethnic minorities
It’s the escape route out of this endless cycle of lockdowns, but not everyone is equally enthusiastic about the Covid vaccine.
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Violent protests as Indian farmers press Modi government’s on agricultural reforms
In a showdown of tractors versus tanks, thousands of farmers have taken to the streets of Delhi in protest over India’s new agriculture reforms.
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Covid pushes unemployment up to 5%
The number of people out of work across the UK has continued to rise. The impact of the Covid crisis on the jobs market has pushed unemployment up to 5%, with more than 800,000 workers dropping off company payrolls since the pandemic began. But even this doesn’t reveal the true picture, with millions of people…
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‘You never get as much vaccine as you thought you were going to get’ – Prof David Salisbury
We are joined by Professor David Salisbury, the former director of immunisation at the Department of Health.
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‘We are facing some kind of vaccine nationalism’ – French MEP Veronique Trillet-Lenoir
We’re joined by the French MEP Veronique Trillet-Lenoir, who is a medical doctor and a member of the parliament’s environment, public health and food safety committee.
Latest news
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76 Days: The story of Wuhan’s lockdown
Hao Wu’s ’76 Days’ was filmed inside four Wuhan hospitals during its lockdown – by his two co-directors.
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11 Chinese miners rescued after two weeks trapped underground
Rescuers have been battling to reach the men since the blast, which trapped them almost two thousand feet below ground.
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SNP sets out plans for second independence referendum
Nicola Sturgeon said polls showed that a majority of Scottish people were in favour of independence.
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Covid becoming ‘more efficient at living in humans’, says Prof Sir John Bell
Prof Sir John Bell is Regius Professor of Medicine at the University of Oxford and sits on the government’s taskforce.
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Government under pressure to cut vaccine gap amid concern over new variants
Ministers will meet this coming week to decide if border controls should be tightened further.
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‘Children have been very seriously damaged’ by NHS gender clinic, says former Tavistock staff governor
Dr David Bell wrote an internal report in 2018, raising the concerns brought to him by colleagues about the way the Gender Identity Development Service was treating patients.
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NHS gender identity service given leave to appeal High Court puberty blockers ban
Judges declared in December that children under 16 were unlikely to be able to consent to hormone treatments to stop the onset of puberty.
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Mass arrests as pro-Navalny protests sweep Russia
Several hundred thousand people took part in demonstrations from Moscow to Siberia and the far East, braving temperatures as low as -50C.
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British Medical Association says 12-week Covid jab delay ‘difficult to justify’
Senior doctors have voiced concern about the UK’s decision to delay giving people the second dose of the Pfzier vaccine.
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‘The beds aren’t even getting cold’: Inside a London hospital full with Covid patients
Ealing Hospital is just one of hundreds across the country buckling under the weight of new admissions.
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Progress has to be made protecting people before we even start to think about relaxing rules, says former director of immunisation
Professor David Salisbury is a former director of immunisation at the Department of Health
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Channel 4 News’ Jon Snow has Covid vaccine
Jon Snow got a text last night telling him he could get vaccinated this morning.
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‘These hospitals are brimming to full’
The prime minister has announced that the variant of the Covid virus which has become widespread in the UK may be more deadly.
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Former FBI director says US ‘should not give Trump centre stage’ in Capitol with a prosecution
We spoke to James Comey, the former FBI director who was fired by President Trump in 2017
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Raab visits Ethiopia amid humanitarian crisis
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has visited Ethiopia amidst a humanitarian crisis that threatens to destabilise the entire East African region.
