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- Britain will remain in lockdown until June at the earliest, according to theTimes. Meanwhile, No. 10 has been dampening hopes of a significant easing by Boris Johnson on Sunday.
- Germany has seen its Covid-19 cases rise the most in a week, as it prepares to reopen hotels, restaurants and non-essential shops.
- A leaked Whitehall report warned three years ago of the serious impact of a pandemic on care homes. Matt Hancock has responded: ‘Everything that was recommended was done.’
- The NHS has started to build a second contact tracing app after concerns were raised over the first.
- The government’s botched import of 400,000 items of Turkish PPE came from a former parliamentary candidate turned T-shirt manufacturer. Meanwhile, thieves have stolen £166,000 worth of PPE earmarked for NHS workers from an industrial estate in Salford.
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