Just over 100 cases of the South African strain have been identified to date across the UK, but this is the first signal of wider community spread.
Mass testing is being launched after cases were found in Surrey, Kent, Walsall, Sefton, Hertfordshire and the London boroughs of Merton, Haringey and Ealing.
"The sun will shine on you again and the clouds will go away."
Liz Kendall, Labour’s shadow social care minister, described it as an "appalling loss of life in care homes".
Some 609,010 people were vaccinated on Saturday across Britain.
He was there for the NHS and now the NHS is there for him.
He is being treated in a ward, although he is not in ICU.
The former health secretary said he thinks Sir Keir is "a very serious threat, much bigger than we've had for many years."
Official figures show the government is on track to hit its vaccine target by the middle of February.