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A Tory MP who told anti-vaccination campaigners to “persist” in protesting lockdown and that NHS capacity figures were being “manipulated” to exaggerate the scale of the pandemic has refused to apologise for his remarks.
The UK has reported another 1,239 COVID-related deaths and 28,680 new cases of the virus.
Lockdown is beginning to slow the spread of the virus, but not in all areas, new research has confirmed.
In the early weeks of the coronavirus crisis as the UK entered its first national lockdown, midwives were bracing themselves for a busy period in nine months’ time.
National landmarks have been bathed in purple light and people lit candles in their windows to remember the millions of Jewish people killed in the Holocaust.
Hollywood entertainment magazine Variety has apologised to Carey Mulligan for “insensitive language” in a review that seemed to question whether her looks were right for the role of a femme fatale out for revenge against sexual predators.
CCTV cameras had been switched off at the Notting Hill restaurant where singer Rita Ora held her lockdown birthday party to avoid her celebrity guests being filmed, police say.
Tony Blair has called for immunity passports to be rolled out and urged the UK to take advantage of its upcoming position chairing the G7 to push other countries to do the same.
She is one of the most famous supermodels in the world, and in recent years her daughter has been following in her catwalk footsteps.
The number of people who tested positive for COVID-19 in England is down 17% and is at its lowest level since the week to 23 December, new Test and Trace figures show.
