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Queensland hotel quarantine cleaner reportedly infected with UK strain The highly infectious UK strain has been identified in a person who tested positive for COVID-19 after working as a cleaner in a Brisbane quarantine hotel. Queensland health authorities have issued new restrictions for hospitals and aged care centres. Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has announced a ban on visitors to aged care homes, hospitals, prisons and disability accommodation. Queensland reported a "likely" leak of the virus from its hotel quarantine on Thursday after a casual cleaner at Brisbane's Hotel Grand Chancello...

SHARE UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson pledged that his government would use “every available second” to protect the elderly and vulnerable from the virus rampaging across Britain. Mr Johnson on Wednesday addressed Parliament to explain why Britain had to return to a Covid-19 lockdown. Members were recalled from their Christmas recess to discuss the measures, which came into force at midnight. They are expected to approve England’s third national lockdown because there is a wide consensus on the need for tougher restrictions to control soaring new infections. “When the Office for Natio...

By JAMES PATON, EMILY ASHTON AND JILL WARD | Bloomberg | Published: January 6, 2021 Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See other free reports here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. If the British government's goal throughout the coronavirus pandemic has been to protect the health service, the next few weeks will be the biggest challenge yet. After overtaking Italy again as the country with Europe's highest death toll, the U.K. is at the epicenter of the continent's s...

The UK's daily COVID-19 death toll hit 981 on Wednesday, as the country continued to grapple with a new variant of the virus. This is the country's highest number of recorded deaths within 28 days of a positive COVID-19 test since April. The total number of people who have lost their lives to the disease in the UK now stands at 72,548. It comes after several more areas of England will be moved into the country's highest level of coronavirus measures from midnight on Wednesday, health minister Matt Hancock has announced. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged people to "redouble our effort...