UK Newspaper Archive (July 2020-Present)

Around 80,000 families will have to say goodbye to their loved ones at COVID-restricted funerals between now and 21 June, reports the Daily Mail.

Just 32 people admitted to hospital with COVID-19 in recent months had been vaccinated, The Daily Telegraph says.

The Daily Express reports on the promise of a pill to protect people against COVID-19.

The Guardian reports on concerns within Whitehall over the expansion of rapid COVID testing. 

The government’s own equalities watchdog has warned that so-called COVID passports could be discriminatory and therefore illegal – so says The Guardian.

The i leads on ministers’ plans to offer people a different COVID vaccine as an autumn booster to the one they were offered earlier this year.

The i leads on ministers’ plans to offer people a different COVID vaccine as an autumn booster to the one they were offered earlier this year.

The Daily Star claims that topping up your tan releases a chemical which helps fight COVID-19, and the paper adds it is more effective than vitamin D.

British holidaymakers will have to pay hundreds of pounds for COVID-19 tests if they want to take a trip abroad this summer under plans to be announced by the government, says The Daily Telegraph.

The Financial Times reports that Boris Johnson is facing a rebellion from Tory MPs after throwing his weight behind so-called ‘COVID passports’.

Pubs, restaurants and bars may allow their customers to break social distancing rules if they have a COVID passport, reports The Times.

The Financial Times reports that Boris Johnson is facing a rebellion from Tory MPs after throwing his weight behind so-called ‘COVID passports’.

The Guardian says a new scheme in England, offering everyone two rapid COVID-19 tests each week from Friday, is billed as a way of tracking outbreaks of potentially vaccine-resistant variants of the virus.

The Daily Express says two lateral flow COVID tests per week, being offered to people in England from Friday, can be delivered to homes or collected from pharmacies. 

The Daily Mirror says the idea behind a new COVID testing scheme in England is to enable restrictions to be lifted “smoothly”.

Ministers fear that opening non-essential retail on 12 April in England could lead to a surge of COVID cases and slow the further release from lockdown, according to the Daily Mail.

Boris Johnson is pressing ahead with a plan to use COVID passports to open up the country, the Sunday Express reports.

The Daily Express is leading on Professor Chris Whitty’s comments that we need to learn to live with COVID like flu if we are to go back to normal.

The Financial Times says Pfizer-BionTech is increasing its vaccine production by 25% as the world races to vaccinate everyone against COVID-19. 

Metro reports on the UK hitting 30 million people having at least one COVID jab as the next step of easing lockdown also begins in England on Monday. 

The Daily Express reports that ministers are still confident every adult in the UK will get a COVID vaccination by the end of July, despite recent sabre-rattling in London and Brussels.