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Ministers are due to meet on Monday to consider whether to tighten the UK's border restrictions further.

As high risk groups continue to be immunised there are growing concerns that people with learning disabilities have been missed out.

Daughters of a man who died from Covid pay tribute to hospital staff who fought to keep him alive.

England's deputy chief medical officer urges those who have had the jab to stick to lockdown rules.

Twenty-six-year-old Mae Mamaril and her family all tested positive for Covid-19 at the end of 2020. Mae was the only one who was moved to an intensive care unit.

John Nicholl, who is deafblind, says his use of hands-on sign language left him isolated in lockdown.

Pressures on intensive care units are seeing one in 10 patients transferred to a different site.

They say delaying second doses in order to give more people their first is "difficult to justify".

Inadequate PPE and a new variant may be putting the lives of nurses at risk, says nursing union.

The chief medical officer warns that in some ages groups Covid cases may still be going up.

The UK chief scientific adviser says data suggests a higher death rate among those infected with the new variant.

Emerging evidence suggests the variant that emerged in the UK may be more deadly as well as spread faster.

Health experts keep discussing the value of R, but what is it and why does it matter?

But the proportion of cases apparently caused by the new variant appear to be rising in most of the UK.

Around one in 10 patients admitted to intensive care is now being sent to a different hospital.

Dr Nighat Araf records messages in Urdu and Punjabi, urging people to trust the Covid jab.

A special unit set up by the Crown Office is looking into Covid deaths involving 474 care homes across Scotland.

Some of those leading the nation's vaccination effort have told of their experiences.

The world's first coronavirus quarantine began in Wuhan a year ago - how has China changed since then?

They say the devices, which are used in local councils, have a key role to play in the battle against Covid.