COVID news live - latest updates: Country bans AstraZeneca vaccine entirely in world first, as India suffers 'alarming' surge and UK pub beer garden 'burned to ground'

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'Over a million people are expected to get married in the next year' Bridebook founder, Hamish Shephard, says he's seeing couples book 'much larger' weddings following the pandemic and he expects this year to be the 'busiest' in wedding history.

India suffers alarming surge in new daily casesLondon may face local restrictions after South African variant cases detected, expert says, surge testing is taking place in the capital after cases of the worrying South African variant were discovered.Professor John Edmunds, an epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said he hoped mass testing would keep the number of cases low.

The South American country has suffered 361,884 total coronavirus deaths - second only to the US - and 13,673,507 total confirmed cases.The former president's most prominent daughter has been the latest public figure to publicise her vaccination. The airlines argue that filters and air-flow systems on most planes make them safe when passengers wear face masks.

"If it seems impossible to go on with the games, they must be definitely cancelled," he told Japan's TBS TV. As the UK braces for the first weekend since pub beer gardens were reopened, one venue will not be welcoming customers back. Owners said they had been"overwhelmed" by public support, with customers setting up GoFundMe pages to help rebuild the outdoor space.Hertfordshire Fire & Rescue said that while the fire had been listed as accidental, its cause"still remains under investigation".India reported a record 200,000 new cases, as many hospitals treating coronavirus patients reported severe shortages of beds and oxygen supplies.

Hospitals in other places including Gujarat, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's home state, reported oxygen shortages.

 

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I admire the optimism, but suspect it is ill placed as we’ll be in the Tier system from June and limited gatherings due to the risk of variants. The whack scientists are running the show now.

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