Lockdown officially begins at midnight as MPs back Boris Johnson's Covid-19 restrictions

PHILLIP Schofield got a scolding from his This Morning bosses after joking he was still Covid positive - despite being back at work. The presenter returned to the daytime sofa after coronavirus forced him to isolate for a week.

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coronavirus restrictions may end in just two weeks time.Opening Prime Minister’s Questions, Mr Johnson said: “It is my intention to return on the first day after the half-term recess to present our strategy for living with Covid.“Provided the current encouraging trends in the data continue, it is my expectation that we will be able to end the last domestic restrictions – including the legal requirement to self-isolate if you test positive – a full month early.”Mr Johnson indicated that as long as the data remained positive, the legal duty to self-isolate would be lifted a whole month earlier than planned.The plan was for self-isolation regulations to expire on March 24., but the announcement means the law could axed on around as early as Thursday 24 February.Mr Johnson's announcement comes as a leading expert believes the UK is “past the point” where vaccinating young, healthy children against Covid-19 will do any good.Paul Hunter, professor of medicine from the University of East Anglia, said most children have already had coronavirus, with the vast majority not falling seriously ill.Prof Hunter told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme infection rates in children are “falling really quickly at the moment”, adding: “So I think in many ways we’re past the point where vaccines are actually going to make much difference.”This is a breaking news story and is constantly being updated.Please refresh the page regularly to get the latest updates. Reporters working on dailystar.co.uk will be working to source the latest information, reaction, pictures and video related to this story.

More European countries could scrap tests for fully vaccinated arrivals in the coming days, according to reports.

PHILADELPHIA - A water main break in Kingsessing is disrupting traffic and causing major problems early Wednesday morning. The water main break happened at approximately 6:30 a.m.

PHILADELPHIA - Police say they made an arrest in a carjacking that led to a wild pursuit Tuesday evening. The incident happened Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. when police responded to report of a man following his Mercedes Benz sedan that was stolen during a carjacking at gun point about a week ago. Police were able to catch up to the vehicle which was on the 4000 block of Aramingo Avenue. When police attempted to stop the stolen Mercedes Benz, the driver took off at a high rate of speed and refused to stop, according to officials. Officers continued their pursuit until the driver of that stolen vehicle got to the 4500 block of Richmond Street when the vehicle crashed, rear-ending a parked and unattended vehicle. At this point, the driver got out of the stolen vehicle and attempted to flee on foot.

Over 1⃣ crore youngsters between 15-18 age group are now fully vaccinated against #COVID19

COVID-19 rapid antigen tests at grocery stores, pharmacies and other settings.A government source with knowledge of the plan told The Canadian Press that Health Minister Christine Elliott will announce more details on Wednesday.The source said there will be a limit of one box of five tests per household per visit, though some stores might have different processes.Ontario provided free rapid antigen test kits at malls and liquor stores in December ahead of the holidays.

COLOMBO (News 1st); Sri Lanka Police confirmed the arrest of the main suspect wanted in connection with the attempted shooting of an ambulance driver on the 27th of January opposite the Panadura Base Hospital.Sri Lanka Police said 8 grams of heroin was seized from the possession of the 32-year-old suspect from Kuruppumulla on Tuesday (8) night.Detectives are planning on obtaining a detention order to detain and interrogate the suspect, after producing him to the Panadura Magistrate’s Court.Sri Lanka Police on Tuesday (8) also arrested a 51-year-old man in connection to the attempted shooting of an ambulance driver in Panadura, on the 27th of January 2022.The suspect was identified as the assistant to the ambulance driver who was the main target of the shooters.On Independence Day (4), the Kalutara Crimes Division arrested the ambulance driver who was the target of gunmen in Panadura.Sri Lanka Police said the ambulance driver was transferring an expectant mother to the Panadura Hospital when several people chased after him on four motorcycles and opened fire at him.However, the weapon used by the gunman had jammed.Police said the ambulance driver was arrested after it was revealed that he was transporting Heroin at the time of the incident.According to Police, the person who was driving the motorcycle and the person who assisted in the shooting were also arrested.The assistant to the ambulance driver had confessed to police that the ambulance was used to transport drugs on several occasions.In addition, another man was arrested from Panadura on Tuesday (8) for spying on the ambulance driver.

COLOMBO (News 1st); Colombo Additional Magistrate Rajindra Jayasuriya on Wednesday (9) ordered to release of a Church worker, who was detained over the discovery of a hand grenade from All Saint’s Church in Borella.On the 2nd of February, the Additional Magistrate ordered to release of three other workers connected to the incident.Accordingly, all four church workers who were arrested and detained over the incident, have been released.Sri Lanka’s Attorney General had recommended that they be released given the fact that they were not involved in the incident.A week ago, Deputy Solicitor General Dileepa Peiris informed the court that it was revealed that the three other workers were not connected to the incident in any way, and the Attorney General had advised to release them.

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ANI reported. AIIMS Medical Superintendent DK Sharma in a letter today said in accordance with current ICMT's national guidelines, it has been decided to discontinue routine Covid-19 testing prior to inpatient hospitalisations (regular as well as daycare) and also prior to any minor or major surgical or interventional or non-interventional procedures and imaging in clinically asymptomatic patients.AIIMS, Delhi announces to discontinue routine COVID-19 testing prior to inpatient hospitalization and surgeries pic.twitter.com/R0wjcSdaFl

The UK has ‘little to no scope’ to relax social distancing rules for Christmas unless coronavirus rates fall to a low level, the government’s scientific advisors have warned.

LONDON – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s top adviser plans to step down at the end of the year after a bruising battle for influence at the heart of the British government fueled by tensions over Brexit and the COVID-19 pandemic.Amid speculation that he would leave government, Cummings late Thursday night told the BBC that he planned to be “largely redundant” by Christmas. Political commentators had suggested Cummings would step down after one of his allies was denied an appointment as Johnson’s chief of staff.Cummings, a chief architect of the campaign to have Britain leave the European Union, has been a divisive figure inside the Conservative government since Johnson became prime minister 18 months ago.

BORIS Johnson has been slammed for "giving jobs to mates" by Doctor Ranj Singh as he furiously ranted about Britain's coronavirus death toll. It's been revealed the UK has become the fifth country in the world to pass 50,000 deaths after the US, Brazil, India and Mexico.

coronavirus vaccine as England’s Deputy Chief Medical Officer said he would be happy to work evenings and weekends to vaccinate people himself.

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during a press conference in 10 Downing Street on October 31, 2020 in London, England. (Photo by Alberto Pezzali-Pool/Getty Images) LONDON - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has called Donald Trump the “previous president” of the United States and said it was “refreshing” to talk to President-elect Joe Biden.Johnson has had a warm relationship with Trump.

coronavirus deaths.New government data shows the number of people who have died within 28 days of a positive Covid-19 test has risen to more than 50,365, up by 595 fatalities in the past 24 hours.A total of 61,648 people have now died since the start of the pandemic whose death certificate mentioned Covid-19 as one of the causes, with 1,597 in the past week, the figures show.Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the figures showed, despite hopes for a vaccine, "we are not out of the woods".He said: "Every death is a tragedy," but added: "I do think we have got now to a different phase in the way that we treat it."Speaking during a visit to a Tesco distribution centre in Erith, south-east London, he added: "After the tough autumn measures which

coronavirus-fighting tier system once the current lockdown in England ends, it has emerged. Brits were plunged into a 2nd lockdown on November 5 and will not be able to mingle with other households or visit restaurants or bars until it ends on December 2.

Premier League chief executive Richard Masters appears at a Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport select committee today and is set to press for fans to return.Fans have been unable to attend matches since March due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.Football resumed over the summer to complete last season with the new campaign kicking off behind closed doors.There was good news earlier in the week with an apparent breakthrough in a successful Covid vaccine.Masters will now meet with MPs and the Mail Online claim he’s likely to push for a return of fans after the current lockdown.There had been a push to ‘Let Fans In’ before Prime Minister Boris Johnson put England into a second lockdown in an attempt to curb the virus.Though

PIERS Morgan branded Dr Hilary Jones "Scrooge" for pointing out glaring issues with the new coronavirus vaccine. Show host Piers, 55, compared the medic to cold-hearted Ebenezer Scrooge from Charles Dickens' 1843 novel A Christmas Carol after he listed off a string of problems with the new Pfizer vaccine.

England's lockdown will help reduce coronavirus rates to salvage the big day. Wales came out of a firebreak lockdown yesterday, meaning shops and pubs reopened again after a 17-day closure.Children can return to school and people can travel inside the country again.It emerged today that Pfizer's Covid vaccine can prevent more than 90% of people from getting the virus, Boris Johnson announced in a press conference.Hailing the good news, Mr Drakeford said: “It is good news, of course, if any of the vaccines in trial are making progress.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday discussed Pfizer’s work on a novel coronavirus vaccine, which data suggests is 90 per cent effective, saying that the U.K. has secured a large proportion of its doses.

vaccine results as a “watershed moment” in the fight against Covid-19. At his 5pm press conference on Monday Prime Minister Boris Johnson said “the scientific cavalry was on the way”.

#COVID19 does not pose a threat. Despite all the quarantine measures, I received a positive test.

England's chief medical officer Chris Whitty has said there was "reason for optimism for 2021" as giant Pfizer and biotech firm BioNTech's Covid-19 vaccine is championed by top scientists.

Boris Johnson will hold a press conference in Downing Street at 5pm today, No 10 has confirmed.

London: Britain expects to have 10 million doses of Pfizer/BioNTech's candidate COVID-19 vaccine available by the end of the year if regulators approve it, Prime Minister Boris Johnson's spokesman said on Monday, following positive clinical trial results.The spokesman said that Britain had now ordered 40 million doses of the candidate vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, one of six that the government has agreed supply deals for.Pfizer Inc said on Monday its experimental COVID-19 vaccine was more than 90% effective, a major victory in the fight against a pandemic that has killed more than a million people, battered the world's economy and upended daily life."In total we have procured 40 million doses of the Pfizer candidate vaccine

LONDON – Britain and the United States will work together to support democracy and combat climate change, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Sunday, while denying that his close ties to President Donald Trump would hurt U.K.-U.S relations once President-elect Joe Biden takes office.Johnson congratulated Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on their victory and said the two countries’ “common global perspective” would be vital to shore up a rules-based global order that is under threat.“The United States is our closest and most important ally,” said Johnson, who has yet to speak to Biden. “And that’s been the case under president after president, prime minister after prime minister.

Town hall teams finally being allowed to take over the failed Covid-19 testing scheme fear they will be given no extra funding to do so.

Downing Street has admitted there were mistakes in coronavirus forecasts used by Boris Johnson to justify England's new lockdown.

lockdown, reports say. It dropped its daily death toll forecasts from 1,500 to just over 1,000 by December 8 after being rapped by the statistics watchdog.

Boris Johnson has insisted the the UK can stop the rise of coronavirus cases in just four weeks - and that this lockdown will be different from the last one.

 lockdown measures and other restrictions as new coronavirus infections surge across the continent.British lawmakers approved a month-long lockdown in England, voting on Wednesday in favour of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s plan to try to prevent COVID-19 — the highly infectious respiratory disease caused by the new coronavirus — from running out of control and overwhelming health services.

Prime Minister will appear from No 10 to address the public on the first day of England entering a month-long coronavirus lockdown, Downing Street has confirmed.

Boris Johnson will hold a TV press conference alongside NHS England boss Simon Stevens today as the country goes into lockdown for a second time. The Prime Minister is expected to speak at 5pm from Downing Street about the extremely concerning number of hospitalisations and soaring coronavirus infection rates across England.

England's 56 million people have entered a second coronavirus lockdown with more doubts about the stringent policy than the first time around.

Theresa May accused Boris Johnson of choosing data to fit his coronavirus policies, as she insisted the Government must reveal the economic cost of lockdown.

STRICTLY fans are seething there is no Halloween theme on this week's show, especially as it actually falls on October 31. Tonight's episode falls on Halloween but sadly the special theme won't be going ahead on screen as the series has been shortened this year.

Some half a million people in Engand are to be offered regular coronavirus testing in a pilot scheme hailed as having the potential to be a "powerful new weapon" in the fight against the disease.

LONDON – Prime Minister Boris Johnson is defending his decision to reverse course and impose a second national lockdown as he prepares to face British lawmakers for the first time since announcing his U-turn over the weekend.Johnson will on Monday provide the House of Commons with details of a proposed four-week lockdown in England that is set to begin Thursday. The plan was hurriedly announced Saturday after scientific advisers told the government rapidly rising infection rates risked swamping hospitals in a matter of weeks.The prime minister is facing opposition from some members of his own party who say the lockdown will cost jobs and infringe on human rights.

Covid-19 by early next year.

FILE - An electronic billboard displays government messages about the coronavirus pandemic in a shopping centre in Leeds, northern England, on November 1, 2020 as England prepares to enter into a second lockdown in an effort to stem soaring infection (OLI SCARFF/AFP via Getty Images)LONDON - A new national lockdown in England may have to last longer than the planned four weeks if coronavirus infection rates don’t fall quickly enough, a senior government minister said Sunday.The lockdown announced Saturday by Prime Minister Boris Johnson is to run from Thursday until Dec. 2.

FILE - A mask sits on a sculpture named "The River" during a demonstration against a second lockdown in Victoria Square on October 31, 2020 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)LONDON - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Saturday announced a new month-long lockdown for England after being warned that without tough action a resurgent coronavirus outbreak will overwhelm hospitals in weeks.On the day the U.K.

Speaking to the UK House of Commons on Monday, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson revealed more details of a proposed four-week lockdown scheduled to begin Thursday.

Piers Morgan took another swipe at Boris Johnson in a ferocious social media rant. The 55-year-old Good Morning Britain presenter didn't hold back as he slammed the Prime Minister after it was announced England would go into lockdown for four weeks from Thursday.