Since the pandemic began last year the whole United kingdom has been engaged in a great national effort to fight covid and there's no doubt that in fighting the old variant of the virus your collected efforts were working and would have continued but we now have a new variant of the virus and it's been both frustrating and alarming to see the speed with which the new variant is spreading ...scientists have confirmed this new variant is more transmissible that means you're much much more likely to get it. Your hospitals are under more pressure from covid than at any time since the start of the pandemic the number of covid patients in hospitals is increased by nearly a third in the last week almost 27,000 and that number is 40% higher than the first peak in April on the 29th of December more than 80,000 people tested positive for covid across the UK and new record the number of deaths is up by 20% over the last week and will sadly rise further.

children were in school today ... But May recently asked why we did not take this decision soon because we know how important each day to children's Life chances and I want to stress that schools are unsafe for children children are still very unlikely to be severely by even the new variant my nonetheless actors vectors for transmission