Elsewhere, Germany has announced that the UK and its overseas territories - including the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands - are now"risk areas" due to the presence of the Indian variant.
At the news conference, both Professor Whitty and Mr Johnson praised people who had already received their vaccine - and encouraged eligible people to get theirs when offered. "Because the race between our vaccination programme and the virus may be about to become a great deal tighter."- the first known domestic deaths from the new variant of the virus.The four deaths from the strain of the virus, now designated a"variant of concern", took place between 5 May and 12 May.
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