For people like me, it's very hard to hell whether a vaccination will have any effect. A lot of people don't realize that they could be standing next to a clinically extremely vunourable patient in a shop or on a bus. Anybody who has been jabbed can still transmit the virus and potentially make me seriously ill. The heallh secretaryof sag jarvis says, scientists are deeply concerned about a new variant of ronovirus that's been discovered in south africa as yet.
Trade is down, red tape is up, details of regulatory harmony are still being hammered out. Britain may be less divided about it, but the benefits of the divorce are still to be seized. For the clinically vulnerable, covid restrictions go beyond government mandates; our correspondent shares a personal view. And a visit to mainland Singapore’s last rural village.
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