Sunday, February 21, 2021
20 things that happened this week #coronavirus
• government meets 15m vaccination target
• rollout reaches over-65s and clinically vulnerable
• many calls to hasten date of lockdown easing
• hotel quarantine finally begins
• lockdown easing "cautious but irreversible" (PM)
• Pfizer vaccine proving highly effective in Israel
• 1.7m added to shielding list
• pupils to return to Scottish schools next week
• Dutch court orders end to curfew
• human Covid trials start in the UK
• 2-year backlog of court cases
• PM to focus on 'data, not dates'
• infections have fallen by 2/3 since January
• NI extends lockdown to 1st April
• Labour proposes national recovery plan
• several Covid contracts awarded unlawfully
• G7 pledges vaccine funding for poorer nations
• four can now meet for exercise in Wales
• care home residents to be allowed 1 visitor
• slow leaking of lockdown release 'roadmap'
Worldwide deaths: 2,390,000 → 2,460,000
Worldwide cases: 108,000,000 → 111,000,000
UK deaths: 116,908 → 120,365
UK cases: 4,027,106 → 4,105,675
Vaccinations: 14,556,827 → 17,247,442
FTSE: up ½% (6589 → 6624) |
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