Covid cases continued to rise today, breaching more than 10,000 cases for the seventh day in a row. Department of health bosses posted another 14,876 cases today, increasing 60.2 per cent on last Sunday's figure of 9,284, while patients in hospital due to the virus soared 7% in a week to 227, from 211. Some 158,307 people received their second dose, meaning 32.2million people are now fully vaccinated — 61.6 per cent of the adult population. It comes after BBC news presenter Andrew Marr today revealed he contracted Covid last week despite having been fully jabbed. Meanwhile, the two women behind the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine said they do not believe any Covid variant can fully escape the jab.

Source: The Nation June 27, 2021 15:33 UTC