The UK’s latest vaccination figures
The Stormont executive has agreed to extend Northern Ireland’s current lockdown to 1 April, but pupils will begin a phased return to the classroom from March.
Primary school pupils in year groups P1 to P3 will return to face-to-face learning on 8 March, the PA news agency understands, while secondary school pupils in year groups 12 to 14 will return to school on 22 March.
It comes as the number of people in England who have received two doses of a Covid vaccine surpassed half a million, according to the latest NHS data.
A total of 14,318,115 Covid-19 vaccinations took place in England between 8 December and 17 February, according to provisional NHS England data, including first and second doses. Of this number, 13,817,914 were the first doses while 500,201 were a second dose.
Meanwhile, further discovery of the South African variant of the virus in Leeds has prompted more “surge” testing.
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