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18 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Today’s #covid19 headlines:

People in England aged 70 and over, as well as those listed as clinically extremely vulnerable, will begin receiving offers of a coronavirus vaccine this week.

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-556981…
Travellers to the UK from abroad must now self-isolate for 10 days and show proof of a negative covid-19 test taken in the three days before the start of their journey as the government order shutting all travel corridors comes into effect.

news.sky.com/story/covid-19…
The variant of coronavirus spreading across South Africa threatens to overrun both public and private hospitals, with more than 130,000 new covid-19 cases and 4,000 related deaths in the last week alone.

aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/17…
Researchers find evidence to suggest people hospitalised with covid-19 and recovered had increased rates of respiratory and cardiovascular problems, as well as diabetes.

news.sky.com/story/covid-19…

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