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- Boris Johnson will face questions from senior MPs on the Liaison Committee amid the Dominic Cummings fallout. The PM is also expected to launch the UK’s track-and-trace programme this evening.
- Some 8.4 million employees have been furloughed, an increase of 400,000 in one week.
- Local lockdowns could be used to suppress future outbreaks of Covid-19 in the UK.
- Two different households will be able to mix outdoors next month, according to the Telegraph.
- The Covid drug remdesivir will be made available on the NHS. Ross Clark wrote about the medication on Coffee House last month.
- The domestic abuse charity Refuge has seen a 957 per cent rise in visits to its website and a 66 per cent increase in calls over the last two weeks of lockdown.
- Childline,
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