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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.
Wealthy Brits are trying to pay their way to the front of the vaccine queue
“I had someone say, ‘I’ll give you £2,000 for the vaccine’," the head of a private clinic said.
Warnings of stranded lorry drivers at the border to Gibraltar
The British colony was not included in the Brexit trade deal announced on Christmas Eve.
Police investigate hounds’ gruesome killing of fox on private land
Shocking CCTV footage captured hounds chasing the animal on a private industrial estate in Buckinghamshire - with the huntsman feeding the carcass to the hounds.
Reaction as Telegraph publish dubious artwork by Johnson’s 7 month-old baby
"If this propaganda was any more naked, it would be booked for public indecency," one person commented.