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23 Mar, 8 tweets, 5 min read

The Prime Minister begins addressing the nation from Downing Street by talking about all the sacrifices that have been made from the population, a year on from when we first went into lock down.

#coronavirus

WATCH LIVE HERE:

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#CoronavirusUpdate

🔴Boris Johnson said a suitable memorial will be created to honour the victims of the pandemic

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@BorisJohnson

When asked what @BorisJohnson would've done differently, he says: "There are probably many things we wished we'd known and done differently".

#coronavirus

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The PM says the nation is "step by step, jab by jab" on the path to "reclaiming our freedoms".

He adds: "It's thanks to all of you therefore that we can continue on our road map to freedom"

#coronavirus #COVID19

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@BorisJohnson

👉 @BorisJohnson renews his "thanks to everyone responsible for the astounding vaccine roll-out which has enabled us to protect more than 28 million people across the whole of the UK"

He adds: "It's been an extraordinary moment in our history"

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Education will be the legacy problem from the pandemic

The PM cites illiteracy rates and lost education among children as one of the lasting problems from the pandemic. He says he hopes in helping them it will be an "opportunity to make amends" #COVID19

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Professor Chris Whitty says Covid will be with us in some form for the "indefinite future". He adds that as such people need to go for routine and elective care and for screenings, such as cervical and breast.

Sir Patrick Vallance adds "don't expect for this to disappear".

"The pandemic is not over yet," Mr Johnson reminds the nation.

Specifically on holidays and global travel, the PM says "it's too early to say"

He warns that "the disease is rising" in Europe, "so things look difficult for the time being"

#coronavirus

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For more than a year, Britain has faced one ethical dilemma after another.

❓ Is it okay to immunise children for the benefit of adults?

#coronavirus

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Ministers face one of the most controversial questions of all. Should children be vaccinated?

#coronavirus has largely spared children causing few fatalities or severe cases across the population.

Yet health officials are contemplating whether it could be necessary and ethical

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The Prime Minister appears before the House of Commons Liaison Committee to give evidence on the government’s response to the pandemic

Watch as @BorisJohnson is grilled by MPs live 👇

Boris Johnson has started taking questions before the liaison committee of MPs, the first of which is from Labour Mp Darren Jones about Cop26.

The Prime Minister says it "is a massive job and we are throwing everything at it"

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Darren Jones asks about the Cumbria coal mine and cuts to flight duty, and how the UK's green agenda can be taken seriously internationally.

🗨️ Boris Johnson says the country is "determined" and has "an incredible record" of cutting emotions.

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🚨 EU officials say "open roads should run in both directions." That could mean UK jabs are restricted

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💉 EU politicians and diplomats are under extreme pressure to explain to voters why the bloc has managed to vaccinate barely 12% of its eligible population, while it continues to export millions of doses of different vaccines abroad

⏰ European leaders will meet tomorrow to take steps to prevent vaccines being exported to countries that have their own manufacturing capability and a strong vaccine drive.

This could restrict Britain's supply of jabs, which could put the UK’s vaccine rollout back by two months

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🚨 As her husband lies in hospital fighting the long-term effects of Covid, here is everything you need to know about the presenter's journey

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🌎 In March last year, as the pandemic spread around the world, Derek, 53, was admitted to hospital with severe Covid and placed in a medically-induced coma

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📌 Damage to his liver and pancreas
📌 Heart failure
📌 Bacterial pneumonia
📌 A hole in his lungs

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🚢 One of the world's largest shipping containers, the Ever Given, has run aground and blocked Egypt's Suez Canal.

As traffic builds up, authorities are scrambling to refloat the vessel…

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⛔ Traffic through one of the world's busiest waterways remains halted in both directions by the 400-metre long Ever Given cargo ship

💨 Officials are blaming strong winds for pushing the ship sideways, causing a queue of at least 100 vessels seeking to transit between the Red Sea and Mediterranean.

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23 Mar

@GordonRayner

Associate Editor of The Daily Telegraph @GordonRayner analyses the one year of lockdown the past that led to over 126,000 deaths in the UK

Here’s what he found ⬇️

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🗓️Downing Street insiders say a meeting on March 14, 2020 was the moment lockdown became inevitable.

It would be 9 more days until the PM issued his historic “stay at home” direction – a delay that senior figures in Government now admit was a mistake telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/03/1…

🔴The PM accepts it was a mistake to delay the first national lockdown, close allies have said, while insisting the he was let down by scientific advisers.

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