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So far, India has administered more than 130 million doses of vaccines in a nation of nearly 1.4 billion since mid-January. Whereas, only 20% of newly unemployed households in France suffered such a large fall in income - while the proportion in Germany was 28%, a report found. On 3 March Rishi Sunak announced an extension of the COVID emergency top-up of £20 a week to state benefits for low-income households, but only for a further six months.

The government originally asked people in England considered to be the most vulnerable to COVID-19 to"shield" in March last year. The committee said that this represented an "unacceptable level of variation" between different areas.

 

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