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Most PCR testing for people with symptoms could be scrapped by end of March in plans to ‘live with virus’

Figures show Brexit compounding Covid disruption, with clothing exports plunging 60%, vegetables down 40% and cars 25%

Reports of reinfection have become common, especially since the emergence of the omicron variant

High levels of under-reporting are exposing the limitations of the daily case numbers.

Vaughan Gething MS took part in the Welsh Government’s three-week review press conference on Friday.

We’ve known since early on in the pandemic that COVID reinfections could occur. One of the first reinfections reported was in a 33-year-old man from Hong Kong. His initial infection was diagnosed on March 26 2020, with his second infection, with a genetically distinct virus, being diagnosed 142 days later.

Prevalence highest in the South East, where 5.8 per cent of the regional population had Covid last week

New data from the Office for National Statistics show the UK imported £222 billion worth of goods from the European Union last year after Brexit.

Metropolitan police did not investigate lockdown-breaching party claims because there was no social media footage, legal papers show

Record gross domestic product growth came after a 9.4% slump in the economy in 2020

The economy contracted by 0.2% in December as the hospitality and leisure sector felt the brunt of Omicron and related Government restrictions