Hugging friends and family will be allowed from next week so long as people use their 'common sense,' Boris Johnson will announce tomorrow. The latest figures show that nearly 35.2million Britons have been given at least one dose of Covid vaccine, after another 119,349 first injections were administered on Thursday. Surge testing has been happening in the former mill town of Bolton, which has been identified as a hotspot for the Indian Covid variant. Mr Johnson said on Thursday that tracking of the Indian variant will be 'absolutely ruthless'. Public Health England has divided the Indian variant into three sub-types because they aren't identical.

Source: The Nation May 09, 2021 05:48 UTC