UK bans South America travel over new variant

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The decision was welcomed as payouts could help many small firms survive through the latest lockdown restrictions.

Scores of young people ignored coronavirus lockdown restrictions to take part in a snowball fight at a park in Leeds on Thursday.

A leading NHS official has warned that fake news is likely to be leading people in ethnic minority communities in the UK to reject the coronavirus vaccine.

Dr Harpreet Sood, who is leading the NHS’s campaign against disinformation, said doctors were reaching out to community leaders to help correct “so much fake news” about the jab.

He said: “We need to be clear and make people realise there is no meat in the vaccine, there is no pork in the vaccine, it has been accepted and endorsed by all the religious leaders and councils and faith communities.”.

The ruling means that payouts could help many small firms survive the latest restrictions, reports Ben Chapman.

Researchers from the University of Cambridge have said the number of coronavirus infections in England is falling as a whole, with the R rate below 1 in some regions.

A couple have admitted breaching coronavirus lockdown rules after making a 60-mile trip to climb Ingleborough peak in the Dales National Park, which ended with them having to be rescued.

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