🔴 NEW: Boris Johnson has signed off plans to extend exemption for certain employees ‘pinged’ by the NHS Test and Trace app telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/…
📳The PM says "everyone is being inundated with appeals" to end the pinging.
But the list of sectors "that are absolutely crucial" can't be extended too widely because this is "one of the only shots we have left in our locker"
🚨 BREAKING: Nightclubs and other venues with large crowds are set to be legally forced to adopt Covid passports from the end of September telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/…
🗣️The Prime Minister said: "By the end of September, when all over-18s will have had the chance to be double jabbed, we are planning to make full vaccination the condition of entry to nightclubs and other venues where large crowds gather."
🔴By Sunday, every adult in the country had been offered a vaccine, yet three million 18 to 34-year-olds – 35% – have either not booked an appointment or have decided to reject the jab
📈Infections are highest in those aged 20 to 29, with 614 cases per 100,000 people compared to just 27.9 per 100,000 in the over-80s.
"It means the very people who are driving the pandemic are taking the least responsibility in stopping it," writes @sarahknapton
🚨 BREAKING: Prince Harry is to write an “intimate and heartfelt” memoir of his life, from childhood to the present day telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2…
📚The book, to be released late next year, will share the “definitive account” of the Duke of Sussex's “experiences, adventures, losses, and life lessons”
🔴The Prime Minister is under pressure to end the "mad" system of self-isolation as he and two other top ministers were forced into quarantine on "Freedom Day"
🧒All children may be offered the Covid vaccine later this year once trials conclude, despite officials being set to stop short of that recommendation on Monday