In an attempt to boost sales and increase safety after lockdown, the Government has announced that retailers will be able to stay open until 10pm six days a week.
Professor Karol Sikora has warned that Britain faces "the biggest cancer crisis" he has ever encountered, as the Government's focus on suppressing Covid has "sucked the oxygen away from other pressing health issues".
Lord Sumption has warned that masks and social distancing could last for years, saying it is "unrealistic" to expect the Government to remove these "emergency" measures soon since the public has become so used to them.
A judge has ruled that an 83 year-old dementia sufferer should have the Covid vaccine despite her son, who has Power of Attorney, saying that she should not have to end her life in pain if there were side effects.
Here is a list of the MPs who deserve our praise for voting against the renewal of the Coronavirus Act for a further six months this afternoon.
A quarter of England's over-80s are likely to have received both their doses of the Covid vaccine, according to NHS England figures – yet the Coronavirus Act has been renewed by MPs for a further six months.
NHS England is set to lower its national Covid alert level from four to three due to falling Covid hospitalisation rates. This reduction should help hospitals tackle record-long waiting lists for other illnesses.
Denmark has extended its suspension of the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine for 3 weeks to continue investigating reports that it causes blood clots. A recent survey found that one in three Danes would decline to get an AZ jab.
AstraZeneca has downgraded its estimates of its Covid jab's efficacy by 3%. The pharmaceutical company hopes that this small revision will enable its vaccine to receive US approval in the coming weeks.
Boris Johnson has signalled that he would not stop pubs from demanding that drinkers prove they have had a Covid jab before entering. Such ideas have previously been dismissed by Government officials as "discriminatory".
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