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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.

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.

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.

Surge testing is being deployed in the CM13 postcode in Brentwood where a single case of the South Africa coronavirus variant has been found.

A 14-year-old girl has told Sky News she feels “blessed to have a second chance at life” after having a heart transplant using a donor organ that had started beating again thanks to a new machine.

The first dose of a COVID vaccine appears to reduce your chances of transmitting the disease by “about two-thirds”, the health secretary has told Sky News.

A Conservative think-tank has called for an inquiry into what role Carrie Symonds, the prime minister’s fiancee, plays in “governing” the UK.

The prime minister is still aiming to reopen all schools in England next month despite concerns from teachers and scientists.

In world first cases, NHS doctors have completed heart transplants in children with the organs brought back to life using a pioneering machine.