Proceed with caution: that’s the advice from ministers and scientific experts on when lockdown regulations is formally hoisted – as the highly infectious variant first detected in India continues to spread.

Almost three and a half thousand brand-new Covid cases were recorded over the last 24 hours – a substantial rise on this time last week. Although almost half of all UK adults have now been fully inoculated in the race to create a vaccine firewall against the disease.

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