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News. 5th January
While we were away…. a lot of things happened … up to the 4th January.
The virus got worse.  Now UK has 57 thousand cases a day and most of the country went into Tier 4 or near lockdown.  NHS is under a lot of pressure.  The effect of people mixing at Christmas and New Year has not come through yet.  Health experts expect another big rise in cases.  It looks like many people ignored or broke the rules
Boris said on Sunday that the restrictions to prevent the virus spreading will be more severe now.  Labour Party says increased lockdown should happen right away.  And Boris agreed on Monday night.
Boris wanted primary schools to go back – now changed.

The secondary schools were told that they had to test all their children with the quick Covid test.  The schools said it was impossible in the time they had been given.  Anyway, the test was not reliable.
Universities and colleges are to delay the students coming back.  They will just have online learning. The Oxford vaccine has been approved and people are getting it from 4th January.
Brexit really happened…. finally on Christmas Eve, UK and EU signed an agreement.  Now UK is not in the EU any more.  Most people expect prices to rise and there will be traffic jams at the ports.
Greta Thunberg is 18 and the scientists are more and more worried about the climate.  Biden says the USA will join the climate agreement again.  Extreme weather is in the news

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