Northern Ireland is facing a health crisis, too, with the highest daily number of deaths since the pandemic began.

Dr Margaret Harris is from the World Health Organization.

"This is not the time for the slightest relaxation of resolve," the prime minister warned today, as he announced new steps to stop any new strains of the virus entering the country. 

Richard Leonard has resigned as Scottish Labour leader with immediate effect.

Fishing was supposed to be a major upside of Brexit, but parts of the industry are finding themselves in crisis. 

Fake news on the vaccine is an issue in the US, but also in the UK.

The footballer turned campaigner Marcus Rashford has written to the prime minister calling for an urgent review of the free school meals policy in England.

Prof Sir Mark Walport is a former government chief scientific advisor, and now sits on the Sage group of scientific advisors.

Northern Ireland First Minister Arlene Foster has said the reproductive R-rate there has now fallen back below one in Northern Ireland, but warned that the health service remains under huge pressure.

There have been new bans on travellers to the UK announced tonight.

The waiting list in England now stands at almost 4.5 million people, as doctors warn that the challenge facing the NHS is “truly daunting”. 

The prime minister has said he would have no hesitation suspending the agreement reached with the EU over checks on food and goods shipped to Northern Ireland if delays to freight get worse.  

Carlisle has seen some of the sharpest rises in Covid rates in England.

"Disgraceful" and an "insult" to families is how the prime minister today described the food parcels being provided for children that have replaced free school meals in England during lockdown.

Throughout the pandemic, Paddy Worrall and his award-winning Channel 4 News FactCheck team have crunched the data and the challenged government soundbites, and he joins us today to discuss how to vaccinate a nation.