Another 1,631 deaths were reported on Tuesday

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UK records over 100,000 Covid deaths

The government said the new variant could also be 30-40 percent more deadly, although it stressed the assessment relied on sparse data.

British experts now say the variant that first emerged in the UK last September could be both more transmissible and potentially deadlier

Why scientists think UK variant could be more deadly

The number of positive cases has reached nearly 3.3 million

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson holds a news conference addressing the government's response to the novel coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak, inside 10 Downing Street in London on 17th of March 2020.

British PM tells public to stay home as deaths soar

The halt on air traffic between Russia and the UK was first implemented in late December

Two women wearing face masks to protect against the coronavirus disease walk along a street in central Moscow on Jan. 9, 2021.

Russia extends UK flight ban over new strain

The sites include football stadiums and a horse racing course, and are located in cities including Bristol, London, Newcastle and Manchester

Britain is grappling with its worst outbreak of the disease since it hit early last year

England opens mass vaccination sites as virus spike fears spread

A source told the domestic Press Association news agency that they were given the injections by a royal household doctor at Windsor Castle

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip

UK's Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip given Covid-19 jab

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has shuttered the economy and is rushing out vaccines faster than the country’s European neighbours in a bid to stem the pandemic

Vials labelled "COVID-19 Coronavirus Vaccine" are placed on dry ice in this illustration taken, December 5, 2020.

UK sees record daily COVID deaths, London hospitals on brink

A total of 58,784 people tested positive in the UK on Monday

England's coronavirus lockdown may last until March says Gove

England's lockdown could last into March says minister

Britain recorded 57,725 new cases on Saturday, its highest total of the entire pandemic

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson delivers a statement on coronavirus statistics and testing and lockdown measures during a virtual press conference inside 10 Downing Street in central London on 5 November 2020.

UK set for tougher virus rules as cases surge

District Judge Vanessa Baraitser said the 49-year-old Australian publisher faced "oppressive" conditions in maximum-security isolation if detained in the US

Assange has been in a London prison since April 2019.

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Brian Pinker, a retired maintenance manager from Oxford in south central England, received the jab at the city's Churchill Hospital

82-year-old Brian Pinker is given the Oxford vaccine at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford

Kidney patient, 82, gets first Oxford/AstraZeneca jab

Case numbers have risen sharply in Britain in the last two weeks

An electronic sign displays information as the British government imposes a stricter tiered set of restrictions amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in London, Britain, December 20, 2020.

UK widens English lockdowns as COVID variant surges

All six of the infected people had been kept in isolation

Passengers wearing protective face masks leave upon arrival at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport after India cancelled all flights from the UK over fears of a new variant of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Mumbai, India, December 22, 2020.

India finds six cases of virus variant, may extend UK flight ban

The variant was found in an elderly patient with underlying health conditions

Researchers were "able to sequence the variant of the B1.1.7 virus in a person infected in November this year"

UK virus strain has been in Germany since November

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson: We have  today resolved a question which has bedevilled our politics for decades and it is up to us

Flags of the Union Jack and European Union are seen through interpreters booth ahead of the meeting of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, in Brussels, Belgium December 9, 2020.

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Kidney patient, 82, gets first Oxford/AstraZeneca jab

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UK records over 100,000 Covid deaths

Why scientists think UK variant could be more deadly

British PM tells public to stay home as deaths soar

Russia extends UK flight ban over new strain

England opens mass vaccination sites as virus spike fears spread

UK's Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip given Covid-19 jab

UK sees record daily COVID deaths, London hospitals on brink

England's lockdown could last into March says minister

UK set for tougher virus rules as cases surge

UK court rejects Assange's extradition to US

Kidney patient, 82, gets first Oxford/AstraZeneca jab

UK widens English lockdowns as COVID variant surges

India finds six cases of virus variant, may extend UK flight ban

UK virus strain has been in Germany since November

'A collective sigh of relief': The world reacts to Brexit trade deal

Oxford-AstraZeneca covid vaccine submitted for UK approval