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NewsYahoo News UKWorld Health Organization recommends stricter use of face masks amid second wave
The organisation said maks should be worn in poorly-ventilated indoor spaces
EntertainmentYahoo News UKWhy the Queen, 94, won't be the first in line to get a coronavirus vaccine
The Queen's age won't be enough to propel her to top of the vaccine rollout list.
NewsYahoo News UKPutin orders Russia to begin mass coronavirus vaccine rollout next week
The comments come hours after the UK became the first country to approve use of a vaccine.
NewsYahoo News UKThe key numbers behind Pfizer/BioNTech COVID vaccine rollout
The UK is the first country in the world to approve the jab.
NewsYahoo News UK‘Don’t get your hopes up’: Boris Johnson urges caution over speed of coronavirus vaccine rollout
The PM urged caution about the speed at which doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine will be delivered.
NewsYahoo News UKCouncil with one of lowest COVID infection rates legally challenges government over ‘irrational’ Tier 3 lockdown
Stratford-on-Avon District Council has urged the government to place it in Tier 1 or 2.
EntertainmentYahoo Celebrity UKPiers Morgan and Matt Hancock vow to take coronavirus vaccine together live on air
The Good Morning Britain presenter and the MP agreed to take the approved vaccine together, if they were able to.
NewsYahoo News UKDawn haircuts and 5am queues: England lockdown over as tiers return
England's shoppers went back to non-essential shops today as lockdown ended, prompting "Wild Wednesday".
HealthYahoo News UKHero doctor who worked 258 days straight says elderly man with COVID he cradled 'is recovering'
Dr Joseph Varon said patients were battling both COVID and isolation.
NewsYahoo News UKBrexit helped UK become first country to approve COVID vaccine, says Matt Hancock
Matt Hancock said the ‘fantastic’ news about the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine being approved is due in part to Britain using a ‘world class UK regulator’, rather than ‘go at the pace of the Europeans’.
CelebrityYahoo Celebrity UKCurtis Pritchard tests positive for COVID-19, forcing delay to filming 'Celebs Go Dating'
The former 'Love Island' star was asymptomatic but has tested positive just weeks after his brother AJ Pritchard.
HealthYahoo News UK'I'm never smiling again': How it feels to watch your mum fall apart through a care home window
Jenny Morrison has had to endure the pain of watching her mother deteriorate from afar during the COVID pandemic.
NewsYahoo News UK'2021 will be better': Hancock hails 'fantastic' news as UK approves Pfizer COVID vaccine
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency have approved the jab as clinically safe.
NewsAssociated PressNevada doctor's selfie used to claim COVID-19 is a hoax
A photo of a hospital’s alternative care site in Reno, Nevada, is being misrepresented on social media to fuel the false narrative that the coronavirus pandemic is a hoax, even as cases surge in the state. Renown Regional Medical Center has been the primary target of renewed conspiracy theories online suggesting that hospitals are empty and the virus is not as dangerous as top medical officials say it is. The hospital opened an alternative care site with two floors of supplemental hospital beds inside a parking structure on Nov. 12 to accommodate an overflow in COVID-19 cases if needed.
HealthYahoo News UKCoronavirus ‘can travel into your brain through your nose’
More than one in three COVID-19 patients report neurological symptoms, including the telltale loss of smell and taste.Â
NewsYahoo News UKNot every COVID death is a tragedy, Tory MP says
A Conservative MP has said not every coronavirus death is a tragedy as he appealed for older people to be given freedom from Boris Johnson’s restrictions.
NewsYahoo News UKMEP resigns after police raid ‘sex party’ in Brussels over lockdown breach
Jozsef Szajer resigned as an MEP on Sunday after police raided a 'sex party' in the Belgian capital.
NewsYahoo News UKCoronavirus: The 14 major developments that happened on Tuesday
Vaccine passports for pubs and restaurants have been ruled out by a government minister.
NewsYahoo News UKCornwall holiday home owners told not to take Christmas bubble bookings from people in Tier 3
Cornwall is the only place in mainland England to go into Tier 1 this week.
NewsYahoo News UK4 key coronavirus dates coming up in the next few weeks
As the second national lockdown comes to an end, what is due to replace it?
NewsYahoo News UKCOVID currently causing eight times more deaths than flu or pneumonia in England and Wales
The latest ONS figures reveal at least 2,361 deaths were caused by coronavirus in the week to 20 November, compared with just 280 from flu or pneumonia.
NewsYahoo News UKWales lifted its firebreak lockdown 'too expansively and too soon', says Michael Gove
Wales has announced new restrictions on pubs and restaurants that come into force on Friday.
CelebrityYahoo Celebrity UKPiers Morgan: Rita Ora's only sorry she got caught having illegal birthday party in lockdown
The 'GMB' presenter said the singer has been selfish and questioned how genuine her apology was.
NewsYahoo News UK1 in 5 deaths currently caused by coronavirus, official stats reveal
The data comes from the height of England's coronavirus lockdown, which will end on Wednesday.
NewsYahoo News UKBritons won’t need a coronavirus vaccine passport to go to pub in 2021, says Gove
Michael Gove appeared to contradict comments made by the new minister responsible for the vaccine rollout.
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