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Portrait of the week

Portrait of the week: Variants, vaccines and goodbye to Captain Sir Tom Moore

6 February 2021

9:00 AM

6 February 2021

9:00 AM

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About 80,000 people in eight places in Surrey, London, Kent, Hertfordshire, Southport and Walsall were asked in door-to-door visits to take tests after the South African variant of coronavirus was found in these areas. Another mutation was found in the Kent variant. At the beginning of the week, Sunday 31 January, total UK deaths (within 28 days of testing positive for the coronavirus) had stood at 105,571, including 8,242 in the past week.

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