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- Business Secretary Alok Sharma has self-isolated after showing symptoms of Covid-19 in the House of Commons. Around 25 people are diagnosed in London each day.
- The two-week quarantine for arrivals to the UK was not put before the science advisory group Sage, according to members of the body. Details below.
- However, while Tory backbenchers dislike the policy, exclusive polling for The Spectator reveals that 67% of the public support the two-week quarantine. Katy Balls has the details.
- Boris Johnson is to host a virtual vaccine summit today with 35 other heads of state. The summit aims to raise £6 billion to help fight coronavirus as well as polio, diphtheria and measles.
- Former MI6 chief Sir Richard Dearlove has told the Daily Telegraph that he has seen unpublished research suggesting coronavirus is man-made and escaped from a Chinese lab by mistake.
- The
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