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UK shatters record daily high with 53,135 new coronavirus cases
The figures compare to yesterday’s increase of 41,385 confirmed coronavirus cases, and 357 virus-related deaths.
History-making Margaret Keenan receives her second Pfizer vaccine dose
Margaret Keenan was given the follow-up injection at Coventry’s University Hospital on Tuesday, three weeks after making history with the first jab.
Four-day week would be affordable in UK straightaway, thinktank says
“The four-day week is picking up momentum across the world and we’re calling on the government to begin investigating the best options for rolling it out.”
‘Careful what you wish for’: Brexit-voting eel exporter’s anguish goes viral
"I'd never have voted for Brexit if I knew we were going to lose our jobs."
Hospitals on brink as new variant puts health workers ‘back in eye of storm’
Doctors are raising the alarm about “very, very busy” services - with one NHS trust calling for volunteers to help prone patients.
UK records highest daily increase in Covid cases since pandemic began
It comes as hospitals in the South face a rise in pressure as the number of coronavirus patients receiving treatment heads towards the April peak.
China jails lawyer for reporting early outbreak of Covid in Wuhan
She will be imprisoned for 4 years on charges of “picking fights and provoking trouble”.
‘Their claims are wrong’: Full Fact definitively discredits lockdown sceptics
The claims of lockdown sceptics "are often expressed with overconfidence, or without vital context,” the fact-checker said.
Hundreds of Brits stage night-time escape from Swiss ski resort quarantine
More than 400 visitors from the UK were told to go into quarantine. But, according to Swiss newspaper SonntagsZeitung, at least half fled the resort in a clandestine, “cloak-and-dagger” operation.