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There is a “value” in giving COVID jabs to children, the health secretary has told Sky News – as a leading scientist said the UK’s vaccine rollout should turn to younger age groups “as fast as we can”.
Another 215 COVID-19 deaths and 9,834 cases have been recorded in the UK, while the number of people to have received a first vaccine dose has now surpassed 17.5 million.
The prime minister will outline his roadmap on Monday for the path towards normality after England’s latest lockdown, with measures to be relaxed nationally rather than on the regional tiered basis of the past.
All schools in England will reopen to all pupils on 8 March under the prime minister’s roadmap out of lockdown to be announced today, with outdoor after-school sports and activities also allowed to restart.
In the opening minutes of The Milkmaid, the joyous occasion of a wedding in a west African village turns into something unimaginable as terrorists attack.
Radio broadcaster Jo Whiley says her younger sister has finally been offered a coronavirus vaccine but it could be too late, as she is already “fighting for her life” after catching the virus in her care home.
Boris Johnson has pledged that every adult in the UK should be offered a COVID-19 vaccine by the end of July.
The current lockdown “has been one of the most painful for the most people” and the COVID crisis has “stripped the paper off the cracks” in society, the Archbishop of Canterbury has told Sky News.
Outdoor learning centres have warned they could be “lost forever” if they aren’t included on Boris Johnson’s roadmap to reopen from England’s latest lockdown.
The family of a school worker who died after contracting COVID-19 say that teachers and other staff must be vaccinated before students return to the classroom.
