UK Covid live: Boris Johnson leads Downing Street Covid briefing
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The prime minister will lead this afternoon’s Downing Street briefing, due to begin shortly. He will be joined by the chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance.
It comes ahead of the government’s roadmap for easing lockdown restrictions expected next week, and follows the news today that the UK hit has its target of offering a first dose of Covid-19 vaccines to 15 million people. This is from the FT’s Seb Payne:
NEW: Boris Johnson will host a press conference at 5pm today. Expect talk about the timetable for vaccinating over 50s
Greater Manchester police (GMP) say they broke up a party over the weekend in Manchester’s tallest building.
Around 40 people were discovered in a private flat in the Beetham Tower. Body camera footage captured an officer telling the revellers that they had breached coronavirus regulations. “Do you know we’re in a lockdown?” the officer asks, prompting one man to say they didn’t have a TV. “But you’ve got a brain haven’t you?” says the officer.
Read the original article at The Guardian