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Harry Potter star Jessie Cave says her newborn baby has been discharged from hospital, where he was admitted after testing positive for coronavirus.

All travellers to England and Scotland from overseas will need to test negative for coronavirus before they are allowed to enter the country, the government has announced.

People arriving in the UK will now need to test negative for coronavirus before being allowed into the country in a bid to bring spiralling cases under control.

Boris Johnson has been slammed by MPs for being too secretive about the scientific advice that informed lockdowns and the tier system in England.

Wales its continuing its lockdown and will be toughening up some restrictions as the nation struggles to manage the spread of the new highly infectious coronavirus variant.

Hundreds of thousands of COVID vaccines will be delivered daily by the end of next week, the prime minister has promised.

The government has been urged to listen to the concerns of GPs over the rollout of COVID vaccines in order to avoid “frustrating and demoralising” doctors and “confusing and disappointing” patients.

Claims that hospitals are not under pressure from surging numbers of people suffering badly with coronavirus are a “lie”, the chief executive of NHS England has said.

The Wanted’s Tom Parker says there has been a “significant reduction” in the size of his brain tumour, following hospital treatment.

The UK has recorded its second-highest number of daily deaths since the start of the pandemic – 1,162.