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Government’s confusing rationale for not providing half term school meals
It’s not clear whether the Covid Winter Grant Scheme is intended to replace free school meals.
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Government emails cast doubt on safety of school testing plan
Pupils and staff in England can avoid self-isolating after contact with a covid case if they take seven daily tests.
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FactCheck Q&A: are we on track to hit vaccination targets?
Ministers have insisted the UK is on track to hit a target of offering a Covid-19 vaccine to almost 14 million people by the middle of next month. But questions remain about the supply of vaccines.
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Can the UK vaccinate its way out of the Covid crisis?
Throughout the pandemic, Paddy Worrall and his award-winning Channel 4 News FactCheck team have crunched the data and the challenged government soundbites, and he joins us today to discuss how to vaccinate a nation.
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FactCheck Q&A: why are we delaying second dose of Covid vaccine?
The World Health Organization has said it does not recommend the approach Britain is taking in vaccinating large numbers of people against coronavirus. Should we be worried?
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Can you have two different vaccines and is it safe?
With two coronavirus vaccines now available in the UK, FactCheck readers have started to ask: is it possible to get the first dose from one manufacturer and the second from another? And is it safe?
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FactCheck Q&A: how much coronavirus vaccine do we have?
All the evidence suggests the number of vaccine doses available for immediate use falls well short of the 40 million that we were originally supposed to have by this stage.
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Footage appears to contradict Boris Johnson’s claim of only 170 lorries near Dover
A senior official from Kent County Council’s Highways department said there were “nearer 500” lorries involved in Operation Stack.
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FactCheck Q&A: the new coronavirus variant
Here’s what we know and what we don’t know, according to some of the country’s leading experts.
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How reliable are the UK’s coronavirus lateral flow tests?
SAGE papers suggest around half of positive cases are missed when the tests are done by non-experts.
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Conservative London mayoral candidate’s misleading tax claim
Shaun Bailey says Sadiq Khan wants to raise mayoral council tax by 21 per cent.
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Shaky evidence for Starmer’s attack on Johnson Brexit promise
Sir Keir claimed: ‘The Prime Minister said he had a deal. He didn’t.’
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Conservatives keep repeating dodgy NHS election claims
£34bn for the NHS and 40 new hospitals? There’s more to these claims than meets the eye.
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Vaccines: what we know and what we still don’t know
The first batch of Pfizer vaccine to arrive in the UK consists of just 800,000 doses, but NHS bosses say they expect to have more by the end of the year.
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Brexit did not speed up UK vaccine authorisation
In fact, the UK regulator used EU law to authorise the jab.