Search results for ‘Sure Start’
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FactCheck Q&A: the gaps in Britain’s lobbying laws
Campaigners say David Cameron’s activities prove that UK law on lobbying is not fit for purpose.
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FactCheck: have nurses already had a pay rise?
Most NHS workers have faced significant pay cuts over the last ten years, when you adjust for inflation.
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FactCheck: lateral flow testing in England’s schools
Could negative results give false reassurance?
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FactCheck: why can’t we unlock now if most vulnerable are vaccinated?
On current plans, it will be 21 June at the earliest before we return to something close to pre-pandemic life.
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England care homes residents to be allowed one visitor from March
Reports suggest that people could be allowed to meet each other outdoors by Easter.
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More than 15m people receive first dose of Covid vaccine in the UK
More than half a million people received their first dose of the Covid vaccine yesterday.
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FactCheck: Keir Starmer did want to stay in the European Medicines Agency, but it wouldn’t have affected the vaccine rollout
“Keir accepts that, on this occasion, the Prime Minister was referring to old comments about the European Medicines Agency and Keir admits he was wrong and made a mistake in his response.”
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FactCheck: minister’s claims about symptom-free spread and testing
Helen Whately claimed we ‘didn’t know’ in March and April that people without symptoms could be infectious.
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UK reports record number of daily Covid deaths
The latest 24-hourly figures show tragically 1,564 deaths with Covid – the highest yet announced.
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FactCheck: 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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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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FactCheck: 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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New ‘Test and Dine’ proposal offers lifeline to Birmingham restaurants
67 local authorities currently under England’s strictest measures will start enhanced community testing support programmes.
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Pfizer/BioNTech Covid vaccine approved for rollout in UK from next week
The over 80s will be first in line.