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Pressure on the NHS will not start to reduce until March, ministers have been warned – amid fears that new infections could be running at more than 250,000 a day.
AstraZeneca says it expects to release two million doses of the Oxford vaccine every week by mid-February – and has asked for its workers to get priority access to avoid COVID outbreaks hindering production.
Students could still be given “externally set tasks or papers” despite the cancellation of formal GCSE and A-level exams.
The NHS is considering plans to discharge patients into hotels as hospitals become swamped with COVID patients, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has confirmed – as he said it was “impossible to know” how long lockdown restrictions might last.
A 14-year-old boy has been charged with the murder of a restaurant owner who died after he was struck by his own car following a robbery in Stockport, police said.
The government must make tackling poverty a priority in 2021 or risk being defined by a “record of worsening hardship”, according to a new report from a leading anti-poverty charity.
Traffic congestion in UK cities has fallen more than in many other countries during the COVID crisis, according to new figures.
How often have you stood in a queue and caught the whiff of someone smoking several metres away?
Young frontline health workers who are living with long COVID have described the debilitating and life-changing effects of the condition.
