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Universal Credit claims during the first four weeks of the pandemic were higher than the first nine months of the 2008 financial crash. In total, more than three million new claimants registered with 5.8 million people receiving Universal Credit up to now. This compares to 2.9 million in January last year. But can you claim both Universal Credit and Statutory Sick Pay at the same time?
NI Covid shielding advice to clinically extremely vulnerable people updated
This time people are being advised to exercise outside if possible
Dr Michael McBride
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MPs say now is the time to act as some ethnic minorities three times more likely to die of Covid
How the Covid-pandemic exposed deep racial inequalities in jobs, housing and more
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The Covid pandemic has exposed deep-seated inequality in British society which means people from black, Asian and other ethnic minority communities are treated unfairly, a cross-party House of Commons inquiry has found.
The news has intensified the debate about the merits of the multi-billion-pound mass testing programme, which is being rolled out at speed across the country before a full scientific evaluation has been completed.
Sky News understands that the initial results from the study of the pilot, which is being conducted by University of
Liverpool academics, were only presented to SAGE yesterday. A source familiar with the research said that the final report could be weeks away. It s scandalous, said Allyson Pollock, director of the Institute of Health and Society at Newcastle University. They re putting in place an intervention that hasn t been evaluated, will possibly do more harm and will cost a lot of money.
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