Two-thirds of applications for self-isolation payments for low-income workers are denied
Freedom of information requests suggest councils may be rationing self-isolation payments for fear of running out.
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Is Emmanuel Macron’s coercive vaccination strategy an example for the rest of Europe?
Growing numbers of countries are introducing restrictions on the unvaccinated population to incentivise immunisation.
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The poorest countries have received just 0.3 per cent of Covid-19 vaccine doses
The wealthiest countries in the world have received one hundred times as many vaccine doses as the poorest.
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How is the government in such a tangle over nightclubs and vaccine passports?
Ministers are caught between their desired unlocking timetable and the constraints of the vaccine programme.
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The UK now has the highest daily rate of Covid-19 cases in the world
The rate of daily infections is the highest it has been since mid-January, with 55,000 new cases recorded.
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Why the UK’s new Covid-19 strategy is uniquely dangerous
The government’s policy of standing back and letting the virus reproduce freely is an invitation to disaster.
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Tokyo 2020: How Covid-19 could still disrupt the Olympic Games
The Olympics were supposed to symbolise Japan’s recovery from crisis but they now represent the pandemic’s continuing grip.
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The pingdemic: more than 500,000 people told to self-isolate by NHS app
A total of 520,194 self-isolation alerts were sent in the most recent week, the highest number since the phone app’s…
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