UK eyes next phase in vaccine rollout
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February 15, 2021
LONDON: Britain was preparing on Sunday to move to the next phase of its coronavirus vaccination programme, as it neared a target of inoculating 15 million of the most vulnerable people.
The country will start administering vaccines from Monday to those aged between 65 and 69 and the clinically vulnerable to Covid-19, with almost 1.2 million already invited to book their jabs, the state-run National Health Service (NHS) said.
The step comes after the government was set to meet its aim to have offered vaccinations to the top four priority groups of around 15 million people by the end of this week.
Homeschooling taking off in US as Covid-19 pandemic shutters schools
Angela Atkins helps her son Jess Atkins work on a math problem on his laptop during homeschooling at their home in Oxford.
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. Updated: 14 Feb 2021, 07:11 AM IST AFP
Homeschooling exploded when the virus caused school closures across the country in March 2020, according to the National Home School Association, based in Colorado
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Faced with long school closures because of the coronavirus pandemic, many US parents have taken to homeschooling to ensure their children s education continues despite the massive disruptions of the past year. It s all me: I make the lesson plan, execute the lesson plan, then do it again the next week, said Catherine Strokes, whose daughter s school shut last year because of the pandemic.