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Students offered testing for Covid after Christmas as universities asked to stagger returns
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Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Matt Hancock gave a statement to the House of Commons about the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine.
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Matt Hancock gave a statement at the coronavirus press conference.
Details have been set out by the Government to help local areas detect asymptomatic cases and offer a route out of the toughest restrictions.
The UK now has access to a total of 357 million doses of vaccines from 7 different developers.
The Health and Social Care Secretary spoke to the House of Commons about the coronavirus situation and returning to strenghtened local COVID restriction tiers.
A written statement from the Health and Social Care Secretary to the House of Commons on returning to local COVID restriction tiers in England.
Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock spoke at the NHS Confederation’s NHS Reset Conference about a new strategy to reduce bureaucracy.
Tests will be at the cost of the traveller to protect the capacity of NHS Test and Trace.
More than 6,000 frontline health workers will have their visas extended for a year for free, including doctors, nurses and paramedics.
Vaccine could be delivered to the UK from Spring 2021.
The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Matt Hancock spoke about how we can use the lessons learnt during the pandemic to build a better health service for everyone.
600,000 lateral flow tests to be sent out this week to kick-start the significant expansion of testing, followed by weekly local allocations.
Platforms and UK government agree a package of measures to reduce vaccine disinformation
Government-led programme is providing an early warning of coronavirus outbreaks by monitoring sewage and sharing data with NHS Test & Trace
Speech by Secretary of State for Health and Social Care to open a debate in House of Commons on the coronavirus pandemic.
Hospitality venues in England are from today legally required to enforce the rule of 6 or face a fine of up to £4,000.
Statement to Parliament about the government's local action strategy and areas in England that will move into local COVID alert level high from Saturday 17 October.
The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care thanked the NHS for its hard work and set out the government's commitment to supporting the NHS for the future.
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