Coronavirus live: UK reports 33,869 new cases as more than 100,000 English schoolchildren are off with Covid – as it happened

Official figures show 348 in every 100,000 people have Covid in the UK;less than 90% of pupils are currently at school in EnglandIMF cuts global growth forecast as pandemic ‘hobbles’ growthEngland urged to step up vaccinations to avoid winter Covid surgeNew Zealand ends Covid elimination strategy in favour of suppressionEngland: sustained fall in hospitalisations for first time out of lockdownSee all our coronavirus coverageSenegal has had only a handful of new daily Covid infections so far this week, with only two cases yesterday – the lowest number since the pandemic reached the country.“Two cases were recorded today, the lowest ever recorded,” said the health ministry spokesperson Ngone Ngom. “They were in the past seven, 10 cases, but from the top of my head I think this is the lowest.”Continue reading...
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