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The government made noises about having to delay the lifting of coronavirus restrictions on 21 June in some parts on account of the Indian variant, which appeared more transmissible. ‘The race between our vaccine programme and the virus may be about to become a great deal tighter,’ Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, said on television. The gap between first and second coronavirus vaccinations would be cut from 12 weeks to eight for over-fifties and the clinically vulnerable. The army was sent to help with testing in Bolton and Blackburn. By the beginning of the week, 37 per cent of the adult population had received both doses of coronavirus vaccination; 60 per cent the first dose. In the seven days up to the beginning of the week, 70 people had died, bringing the total of deaths (within 28 days of testing positive for coronavirus) to 127,675. More than a million people were admitted to hospital for obesity-related treatment in England in the year before the pandemic, the NHS said. Indoor restaurants and pubs were reopened.
A consortium led by Rolls-Royce sought £300 million to develop small modular reactors, each big enough to supply a million homes. Unemployment fell a little to 4.8 per cent. The businesses of Sanjeev Gupta, the owner of Liberty Steel, came under investigation by the Serious Fraud Office. He had relied upon funding from Greensill Capital, which collapsed in March. David Cameron, the former prime minister, had earlier told the Commons Treasury committee about his energetic lobbying on behalf of Greensill in 2020. He had signed some texts to Sir Tom Scholar, the permanent secretary of the Treasury, ‘Love DC’. Santander online and telephone banking stopped working for a day.
Edwin Poots was elected by the DUP as its leader.
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