Coronavirus news live: England ramps up booster vaccine rollout as Covid hospitalisations rise
UK ministers are set to intensify the Covid vaccine booster rollout amid a media blitz; two million to receive invitation for jab as figures suggest slight increase in uptake
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Hi, it is Martin Belam here in London taking over from my colleague Samantha Lock. Currently in the UK the health secretary Sajid Javid is on Sky News as he is doing the media round for the government today. I’ll have the key Covid and healthcare lines from that in due course.
A northwestern Chinese province heavily dependent on tourism has closed all tourist sites today after finding new Covid-19 cases, the Associated Press reports.
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