Several European countries are resuming use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine after EU regulators give the go-ahead.
Germany, France, Italy and Spain are among the countries restarting their rollout of the jab.
There isn’t enough vaccine supply in Europe at the moment to stop a third wave of Covid-19, the German health minister has warned.
The UK saw 7% more deaths than normally expected during 2020, according to the Office for National Statistics.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson is to receive his first dose of the vaccine later.
He is urging people to get inoculated after reassuring the public the AstraZeneca jab is "safe"
UK government borrowing hits the highest February level on record.
Paris is set to go into a month-long Covid lockdown as the country fears a third wave.
France has recorded more than 35,000 new infections within the past 24 hours.
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