Covid live: Italy, Netherlands and Turkey report record daily cases as Omicron surges across Europe

Italy reports a record 189,109 new cases; Dutch authorities announce more than 24,000 new cases; Turkey reports record 66,467 casesMacron rebuke to unvaccinated citizens incurs anger in parliamentChina’s locked down cities pay price of zero-Covid strat…

UK Covid live: pre-departure tests for travellers to England to be scrapped; 194,747 new cases reported

From 4am on Friday pre-departure tests no longer required for people arriving in England as UK records second highest number of daily casesAlmost 200,000 new Covid cases reported in UKFollow-up PCRs after positive LFT to be suspended in EnglandTravel s…

PMQs: Boris Johnson and Angela Rayner clash over energy prices and inflation

Prime minister talks up rising employment and makes false claims over inflationBoris Johnson and Angela Rayner have clashed over energy prices and the wider cost of living in the first prime minister’s questions of the year, during which Johnson made a…