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What do Covid vaccines cost - and who is paying over the odds?
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What do Covid vaccines cost - and who is paying over the odds?

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UK refusing to give EU ambassadors full diplomatic status
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UK refusing to give EU ambassadors full diplomatic status

22 Jan 2021
Are plans to pay all self-isolating Brits £500 ‘dead on arrival’?
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Are plans to pay all self-isolating Brits £500 ‘dead on arrival’?

22 Jan 2021
Google threatens to pull out of Australia over media payment law
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Google threatens to pull out of Australia over media payment law

22 Jan 2021
Downing Street plots Biden charm offensive
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Downing Street plots Biden charm offensive

21 Jan 2021

The Daily Briefing

23 January 2021
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Covid variant ‘30% more deadly’
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Covid variant ‘30% more deadly’

The new UK coronavirus variant may be 30% more deadly and restrictions will continue while the infection rate remains “forbiddingly high,” said Boris …
Trump hearing set for next month
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Trump hearing set for next month

The second impeachment trial of Donald Trump has been set for February. House of Representatives Democrats will send the charge of “inciting insurrect…
Calls for shorter vaccine pause
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Calls for shorter vaccine pause

Senior doctors are calling on the government to cut the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine. After health o…
Smart motorways cause deaths spike
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Smart motorways cause deaths spike

The launch of smart motorways saw deaths and injuries of people stranded after breaking down in live lanes increase six-fold, the Department for Trans…
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What the UK can learn from Israel’s vaccine rollout
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Covid study dents lockdown lifting plans
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Covid study dents lockdown lifting plans

How the UK is combatting vaccine ‘blackspots’
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In focus: the vaccines

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The Oxford and AstraZeneca jab
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The Oxford and AstraZeneca jab

The injection developed by Oxford University and made by AstraZeneca is a conventional vaccine, using a harmless, weakened version of a common virus t…
The Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine
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The Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine

Unlike most vaccines, which rely on weakened or inactivated parts of the virus to provoke an immune response in their recipients, the one developed by…
The Moderna injection
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The Moderna injection

Like the Pfizer vaccine, the vaccine made by Moderna relies on mRNA to generate an immune response. This new technique allows researchers to “elimi…
Three big questions
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Three big questions

If we are ever to return to some semblance of normality, then the world’s population needs to be immune to Sars-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19.…
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How many people need to be vaccinated before life gets back to normal?

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How should Biden handle Trump’s legacy?
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How should Biden handle Trump’s legacy?

US accuses China of ‘genocide’ against Uighurs
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US accuses China of ‘genocide’ against Uighurs

Incest allegation triggers French national reckoning
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