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The travel corridor closure will be in force until at least February 15. From today (18 January), travel corridors allowing people to enter the UK without self-isolating have closed, in a bid to stop the spread of Covid...
It was a dead heat between 2016 and 2020 being the hottest year. Remember those early spring days last year in lockdown? Sunny days and little knowledge that we would be entering a third lockdown in 2021… Well, ac...
A ‘vaccine passport’ trial will take place in the upcoming months. To bring you up to speed – there are now three approved Covid-19 vaccines, a ‘vaccine patch’ in development and ‘vaccine passports’ in the works too. Th...
Round-the-clock jabs are being planned to push the UK towards its vaccination targets. 24-hour vaccination centres have been rumoured in the press for the last few days, and now Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announce...
A number of supermarkets will begin turning some shoppers away. Joining the likes of Tesco, Morrisons, Asda, Waitrose and Sainsbury’s, Aldi has now confirmed that they will also be banning customers who do not have a fa...
Its Smethwick branch will be the first to launch the vaccine. Supermarkets are thriving right now and with non-essential shops closed, they are offering even more to add to your weekly shop. For those shopping at Asda,...
The lockdown rules on exercise have been further clarified to avoid confusion. England officially went on lockdown over a week ago, with the government ordering the public to stay at home unless absolutely necessary – w...
The Moderna vaccine has been approved for use in the UK. By January 6, over 1.3 million people in the UK had been vaccinated against coronavirus – and that number is only going to go up with this news. UK regulators hav...
GP surgeries across England will be rolling out the Oxford vaccine shortly. Hundreds of GPs across England are to start administering the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, as Covid-19 infection rates continue to r...
The first Covid-19 vaccine ‘smart patch’ is being produced by British scientists. Two Covid-19 vaccines (Pfizer/BioNTech and Oxford/AstraZeneca) have now been approved and the mass rollout is well underway. Over 1.3 mil...