Portrait of the week
Portrait of the Week
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,…
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Home On Sunday 7 February, as the week began, 11,465,210 people in the United Kingdom had received a first vaccination…
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Home About 80,000 people in eight places in Surrey, London, Kent, Hertfordshire, Southport and Walsall were asked in door-to-door visits…
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Home Supplies of the Pfizer vaccine (made in Belgium) were feared to be at risk from a declaration by the…
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Home The government undertook to offer a first dose of vaccine to the adult population of the UK by September.…
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Home The government, in the face of overwhelming numbers of people with Covid-19 being admitted to hospital, told everyone to…
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Home Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, announced harsher coronavirus restrictions in England, resembling those last March, except that bubbles continued.…
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January Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, signed the EU withdrawal agreement, sent from Brussels by train. Sajid Javid, the Chancellor…
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Home The Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine began, rather slowly, to be given to some old people in hospital and health workers.…
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Home The Commons voted by 291 votes to 78 for new coronavirus regulations putting 55 million people in England into…
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Home The AstraZeneca vaccine developed by the University of Oxford was found to be 70 per cent effective — 90…
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Home Dominic Cummings, the chief adviser to the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, left Downing Street after a week in which…
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Home Pfizer and BioNTech announced a vaccine against Covid-19 of 90 per cent efficacy from two injections three weeks apart.…
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Home The government imposed a lockdown on England to last until 2 December. On television, Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister,…
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Home Wales, entering a 17-day ‘firebreak’, closed most shops by law but then tried to stop supermarkets selling ‘non-essential’ items…
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Home After ten days spent trying to persuade Andy Burnham, the Mayor of Greater Manchester, to accede to the city…
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Home ‘The weeks and months ahead will continue to be difficult and will test the mettle of this country,’ Boris…
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Home Coronavirus was on the increase. At the beginning of the week, Sunday 4 October, total deaths (within 28 days…
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Home More than a quarter of the population of the United Kingdom (three-fifths of the Welsh, a third of the…
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Home Pubs and restaurants would have to close at ten o’clock, under new coronavirus restrictions announced by Boris Johnson, the…
