Portrait of the week
Portrait of the week
Home After the number of people ‘pinged’ (alerted by an NHS Covid-19 app) neared 700,000, the app was adjusted so…
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Home The daily number of coronavirus cases detected by tests fell from 54,674 on 17 July to 23,511 by 27…
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Home On the eve of the day that most coronavirus restrictions were to be lifted, the Prime Minister and Chancellor…
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Home England expects everyone to wear masks in crowded places, Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, said in a televised address,…
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Home Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, said that if a review of coronavirus restrictions on 12 July allowed, then on…
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Home A lively game of hunt the issue followed the resignation of Matt Hancock as Secretary of State for Health…
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Home The government contemplated its promised Planning Bill, blamed for contributing to the astonishing victory for the Liberal Democrat Sarah…
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Home The lifting of coronavirus restrictions was delayed from 21 June until 19 July, probably. The motive was to avoid…
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Home The government pondered delaying the end of coronavirus restrictions on 21 June. But Chris Hopson, the chief executive of…
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Home Freelance scientists urged the government not to end coronavirus regulations on 21 June, for fear of a third wave.…
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Home The BBC was engulfed in doubts after a report by Lord Dyson blamed Martin Bashir for deceiving the late…
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Home The government made noises about having to delay the lifting of coronavirus restrictions on 21 June in some parts…
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Home A new complexion of British politics was revealed by the capture of Hartlepool by Jill Mortimer for the Conservatives…
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Home ‘I think we have got a good chance of being able to dispense with the one-metre-plus from 21 June,’…
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Home By the beginning of the week, 12,071,810 people had received both doses of coronavirus vaccine, and the proportion of…
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Home Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, announced the hunt was on for two effective pills to treat Covid, to be…
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Home The Duke of Edinburgh, who was married to the Queen for 73 years, died at Windsor Castle, aged 99.…
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Home The government sketched a scheme for a coronavirus passport, or ‘Covid status certification’, to be tried out at the…
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Home More than 30 million had received their first dose vaccination. The government remained confident of supplying second doses and…
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Home The nation was surprised to learn that from 29 March there would be a dearth of vaccine for a…
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Home A Metropolitan Police officer, Wayne Couzens, 48, was charged with the kidnap and murder of 33-year-old Sarah Everard, who…
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Home The world was agog, some in tears, some in synchronised toe-curling, as the Duchess of Sussex and her husband…
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Home First-dose coronavirus vaccinations totalled more than 20 million. A study suggested that in the over-eighties, a single dose of…
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Home The much-anticipated decriminalisation of two consenting people meeting over coffee on a park bench was declared for 8 March…
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Home The target was achieved of vaccinating, by the middle of February, about 15 million people of 70 or over,…
