Britain Covid

• Britain’s slow COVID-19 response led to thousands of deaths, report says

  U.K. lawmakers said their inquiry was designed to uncover why they performed ``significantly worse'' than many other countries during the initial period of the pandemic.

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  Oct 12, 2021
  
• U.K. eyes COVID-19 road map that avoids lockdowns, steps up vaccines for youth

  Boris Johnson's Conservative government is hoping that widespread vaccinations, rather than restrictions, will keep COVID-19 infections in check.

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  Sep 13, 2021
  
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• Britain to lift all remaining COVID-19 restrictions by July 19, health chief says

  Public health officials and scientists have been voicing their concerns, saying ditching masks and social distancing altogether could be dangerous.

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  Jul 12, 2021
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• U.K. officials race to test, vaccinate as COVID-19 variant threatens reopening plans

  ``If the virus is significantly more transmissible, we are likely to face some hard choices,'' Prime Minister Boris Johnson said at a news conference on Friday.

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  May 15, 2021
• Hugs and pints indoors: U.K. lays out latest phase of COVID-19 lockdown lifting

  As of May 17, Brits will be allowed to meet up indoors for the first time in months, in groups of up to six people or two full households together.

  World

  May 10, 2021
• U.K. eyes late spring resumption of international travel as COVID-19 rules ease

  Under a proposed traffic light system, restrictions like mandatory quarantine and testing will apply differently depending on which category of country a passenger arrives from.

  World

  Apr 9, 2021
• U.K. sees 60% drop in COVID-19 cases due to vaccines, lockdown

  Researchers at Imperial College London also found that the relationship between COVID-19 infections and deaths is diverging.

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  Apr 8, 2021
• Vaccine mix-and-match: U.K. to study efficacy of combining shots

  The vaccines being rolled out now require two doses, and people are supposed to get two shots of the same kind, weeks apart.

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  Feb 4, 2021
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• ‘Race against time’: Worst yet to come for U.K. amid pandemic, PM says

  The death toll in the United Kingdom has been soaring and now stands in excess of 81,000 -- the world's fifth-highest toll -- while more than 3 million people have tested positive.

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  Jan 11, 2021
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• U.K. sees early signs coronavirus infections levelling off amid new lockdown

  The British government's main scientific advisory group said the virus' reproduction rate dipped even before the latest lockdown.

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  Nov 13, 2020