Two women have described how they were surrounded by police, read their rights and fined £200 each after driving five miles to take a walk.

Boris Johnson was spotted seven miles from Downing Street cycling around the Olympic Park on Sunday afternoon.

Boris Johnson spotted cycling seven miles from Downing Street in Olympic Park

Boris Johnson was spotted seven miles from Downing Street cycling around the Olympic Park on Sunday afternoon.

Travel for exercise is allowed "a short distance within your area" to access an open space.

Two members of Congress have tested positive for coronavirus after the pro-Trump siege on the Capitol last week.

Bonnie Watson Coleman, 75, and Pramila Jayapal, 55, both Democrats, tested positive after being forced to lockdown in a small room with many others as pro-Trump supporters broke into the building.
Some of their Republican colleagues refused to wear masks when sheltering, Jayapal said, calling such behaviour “selfish idiocy”.

"Only hours after President Trump incited a deadly assault on our Capitol, our country, and our democracy, many Republicans still refused to take the bare minimum Covid-19 precaution and simply wear a damn mask in a crowded room during a pandemic - creating a superspreader event on top of a domestic terrorist attack," she said in a statement.
She also linked to a video of Delaware Representative Lisa Blunt Rochester pleading with a group of Republicans to put on the masks she was offering them during the riot, as they refuse.

“I’m not trying to get political here,” a Republican Representative from Oklahoma, Markwayne Mullin, says in the clip as he appears to turn down the offer.

At least now we have some meaningful messaging and news examples to wake people up to keeping themselves and others around them safer.
"Get yer masks on, and get them on properly, including completely over your nose!"

According to the CDC, a cloth face covering is recommended to prevent transmission of the virus

The answer is a resounding yes. Either the people around you will understand that you’re attempting to minimise transmission risk and will keep their distance, or they’ll think you’re nuts and keep their distance. Either way, objective achieved.

Fake news is likely to be causing some people from the UK's South Asian communities to reject the Covid vaccine, a doctor has warned.

Dr Harpreet Sood, who is leading an NHS anti-disinformation drive, said it was "a big concern" and officials were working "to correct so much fake news".

He said language and cultural barriers played a part in the false information...

Yet another example of how 'Fake News' can kill...

The Brazilian coronavirus variant detected in the UK is not the one causing government concern, a virus expert says.
Professor Wendy Barclay, G2P-UK lead and head of department of infectious disease and chairwoman in influenza virology at Imperial College London, has explained the difference.
"There are two different types of Brazilian variants and one of them has been detected [in the UK] and one of them has not," she says.
"The new Brazilian variant of concern, that was picked up in travellers going to Japan, has not been detected in the UK.
"Other variants that may have originated from Brazil have been previously found."
A ban on travel from South America to the UK is aimed at stopping the import of the new variant, which is thought to be better at attaching to human cells, and therefore more infectious.

... Scientists are stating that to date, the new variants are covered by the vaccines.

If that is the case, WHY isn't there a massive push to distribute the vaccines?

The way this has been handled is nothing but a comedy of errors which is why many (sadly) are ignoring the facts.
Fake news is just exacerbating the problem not causing it.

I know...
...hindsight is wonderful...
...however...
...if done at the start, or soon after...
...would we be in this situation now?

If that is the case, WHY isn't there a massive push to distribute the vaccines?

There is. Starting working through a priorities list of those most vulnerable and for those most exposed.