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At least five deaths have been reported in England and Wales since Storm Bert hit as the heavy rainfall and thawed snow put more than 400 areas in the UK at risk of flooding.
On 28 May 2021, the Janssen vaccine was the fourth vaccine to be approved in the UK. [34] On 3 February 2022, the Novavax vaccine was the fifth vaccine to be approved in the UK. [35] On 14 April 2022, the UK became the first country to approve the Valneva vaccine. This is the sixth COVID-19 vaccine that the MHRA has approved. [43]
1 January – The UK government announces that all primary schools in London will remain closed for the start of the winter term. [1]2 January – Teaching unions have told primary school staff it is unsafe to return to school and urged them to implement remote learning as pressure grows on the government to keep schools closed for the first two weeks of January following its decision to do so ...
The UK's rollout was among the fastest in the world with among the highest uptake in its first few months, [166] although vaccination rates had slowed down or plateaued by autumn 2021 due to lower uptake in younger age groups. [169] [170] Polling suggests the UK's level of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy is among the world's lowest. [171] [172]
Oregon health workers who got stuck in a snowstorm on their way back from a COVID-19 vaccination event went car to car injecting stranded drivers before several of the doses expired. Josephine ...
The UK government ruled out the idea of issuing a vaccine passports for those who had been vaccinated. [3] On 23 February, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a review into the idea of vaccine passports to allow people to go on holiday and into venues, describing the proposal as having "deep and complex issues". [4]
A winter storm packing heavy snow was blowing into the nation's capital on Monday, closing government offices and schools. As much as 10 inches (25 centimeters) of snow was forecast for the ...
The UK government loses a High Court bid to prevent the COVID-19 Inquiry from seeing Boris Johnson's diaries and WhatsApp messages in full. [135] Senior Welsh civil servant Reg Kilpatrick tells the COVID-19 Inquiry he raised concerns in 2018 that the Welsh Government was not doing enough to assist the UK government with pandemic planning. [136]