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But with the most vulnerable to be offered vaccination by mid-February, what is standing in the way?
The NHS will still be at risk
Lockdown looks to be having an impact on infection levels with the number of new cases starting to fall.
But there are only tentative signs this has filtered through to a slowing of new admissions to hospital.
And even if they start coming down, the overall number of patients in hospital will remain high as patients are being discharged at a much slower rate than they are coming in.
Chris Hopson of NHS Providers, which represents hospital bosses, predicts hospitals will remain under the current intense pressure perhaps until the end of February.
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12:22 EDT, 20 January 2021
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A young offenders institute breached a teenager s human rights by keeping him in solitary confinement for 55 days, the Supreme Court heard today.
The 15-year-old was locked alone in his cell for more than 23 hours a day for at least the first 55 days of his detention at the Feltham Young Offenders Institution, in west London.
The boy, who had serious mental health problems and is identified in court documents as AB, was held there from December 2016 to February 2017.
He was forced to eat alone, received no education and had no access to a gym, psychological treatment or any purposeful activity.