Another Covid Christmas: Britons urged to delay festive plans | Coronavirus

As Christmas approached in 2020, it was not a Dickensian spirit but the spectre of Covid that haunted households up and down the UK. With cases soaring, government-approved plans to allow three... Read more »
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Coronavirus in UK: Britons, Unfazed by High Covid Rates, Weigh Their ‘Price of Freedom’

Such is the strange new phase of Britain’s pandemic: The public has moved on, even if the virus has not. Given that Britain has been at the vanguard of so many previous... Read more »
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Britons, Unfazed by High Covid Rates, Weigh Their ‘Price of Freedom’

LONDON — Nearly 60,000 soccer fans packed London’s Emirates Stadium last Sunday to watch Chelsea outplay Arsenal. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical “Cinderella” made its glittering debut in the West End after multiple... Read more »
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Covid news live: Latest updates as vaccines for 12-year-olds backed by most Britons

Scotland to lift most Covid restrictions on 9 August, Sturgeon announces Boris Johnson has been urged to cap the costs of private PCR tests needed for some international travel to prevent overseas... Read more »
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Brexit news: Britons lash out as EU blocks UK from rejoining treaty | UK | News

The UK left the Lugano Convention – an international treaty negotiated by the bloc which attempts to clarify which national courts have jurisdiction in disputes – because of Brexit. Boris Johnson then... Read more »
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Coronavirus news live: Britons in 30s to get Covid vaccine from May

UK Covid-19 vaccinations: Latest figures Britons in their thirties might start receiving the coronavirus vaccine from the second half of May, it has emerged. The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI)... Read more »
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Coronavirus news live: Britons ‘ready to accept vaccine passports’

UK Covid-19 vaccinations: Latest figures Britons are prepared to accept home coronavirus vaccine passports, and even to hold them as soon as the pandemic has abated, unique polling for The Independent suggests.... Read more »