Sunday, December 19, 2021
20 things that happened this week #coronavirus
• PM pictured at un-distanced party last Xmas
• Alert level raised from 3 to 4
• new goal: booster for all over-18s by end of year
• high demand makes some tests unavailable
• 1st UK death with omicron variant
• Scots urged to limit socialising to 3 households
• Covid pass starts in England despite Tory revolt
• all countries removed from red list
• further restrictions not needed (PM)
• "don't mix with people you don't have to" (Whitty)
• new restrictions if travelling from UK to France
• Queen cancels pre-Xmas family lunch
• interest rates raised from 0.1% to 0.25%
• hospitality sector facing cancellations & no-shows
• Wales to reintroduce social restrictions after Xmas
• Lib Dems storm the North Shropshire by-election
• omicron now dominant in England & Scotland
• record number of daily cases, three days running
• Mayor of London declares major incident
• Netherlands enters month-long lockdown
Worldwide deaths: 5,300,000 → 5,350,000
Worldwide cases: 270,000,000 → 274,000,000
UK deaths: 146,387 → 147,143
UK cases: 10,771,444 → 11,279,428
1st/2nd/3rd vaccinations: 51.4m/47.0m/27.2m
FTSE: down ½% (7291 → 7269) |
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