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-UK government terminates agreement with Valneva over Covid vaccine

- PM to detail plan for combating Covid this winter

- Venues should still demand Covid passports if ‘necessary’, minister says

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🦠 Covid expert supports booster shots to prevent ‘large autumn and winter wave’

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🦠Venues and other businesses should still demand Covid passports if they believe they are “necessary”

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- Work from home guidance could return this winter, minister says

“These are the sensible measures I think that we're going to keep.”

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- Heathrow records 48% increase in passenger numbers

- However, despite this rise, the airport warned that demand was still down 71%

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- Children should be vaccinated to boost the UK’s immunity levels and stem the risk of a large winter wave of coronavirus, a leading scientific adviser to the government has said.

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- New Zealand: Jacinda Ardern extends strict lockdown for Auckland

-Auckland will remain under a strict lockdown for at least another week to curb the spread of the Delta variant of Covid-19

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- Booster Covid jabs for adults are ‘going ahead’, Boris Johnson announces

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