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Holidays saved – but do Covid rules price out all but the richest travellers?

Price of quarantine hotels rising from £1,750 to £2,285 for solo travellers

The Johnsons at the G7 summit in Cornwall in June

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Why we’re talking about . . .

Dominic Cummings and the ‘obsession’ with Carrie Johnson

Boris Johnson wanted to get partner a job with ‘lots of foreign travel’, claims former aide

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In pictures

Gallery: every Team GB medal winner in Tokyo

Team GB are sixth in the table with 51 medals - 16 gold, 18 silver and 17 bronze

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The latest on . . .

When will children get a Covid-19 vaccine?

20 Jul 2021

In Review

‘Monstrous glowing orb’: plans for new sphere landmark divides London

5 Aug 2021

Today’s newspapers

‘French reconnection’

5 Aug 2021

The Daily Briefing

5 August 2021

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France removed from amber-plus list

Fully vaccinated passengers returning to England, Scotland and Northern Ireland from France will no longer need to quarantine after Sunday. In another…

NHS toppled from top of study chart

The NHS has lost its status as the best health system in a study of 11 rich countries. In the Commonwealth Fund’s latest analysis of healthcare perfor…

Twelve-year-olds may get jabs

Children as young as 12 are likely to be offered Covid jabs, scientific advisers signalled yesterday. Currently, youngsters over 12 are eligible for t…

PM ‘said wife drove him crackers’

Dominic Cummings claims that Boris Johnson told him his wife Carrie was driving him “crackers” and that he wanted to get her a job “with lots of forei…

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Instant Opinion

‘France wouldn’t be France without strikes, protests and police baton charges’

Your digest of analysis and commentary from the British and international press

Richie Campbell and John Simm star in Grace

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In Review

TV crime dramas to watch in 2021

Coronavirus

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Today’s big question

What Australia’s new lockdowns reveal about a ‘zero Covid strategy’

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Today’s big question

Will we have to start paying for lateral flow tests?

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Behind the scenes

Why England is dropping isolation for EU and US tourists

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In focus: the Covid vaccines

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Oxford-AstraZeneca

The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine has been the jewel in the crown of the UK jab rollout, with its most recent clinical trial results reporting an overall…

Pfizer-BioNTech

Most vaccines rely on weakened or inactivated parts of the virus to provoke an immune response in their recipients, but the Pfizer version is syntheti…

Moderna

Moderna has become the third coronavirus vaccine to be rolled out in the UK. The majority of the available vaccines have been bought by the UK, EU, US…

Janssen-Johnson & Johnson

Like the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, the Janssen drug uses a modified adenovirus, a harmless, engineered virus that is injected into the patient. The …

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