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- More Covid-19 deaths in Scotland have happened in care homes than hospitals, according to the National Records of Scotland. Details below.
- A report from the Education Endowment Foundation finds that the attainment gap caused by shutting down schools could wipe out a decade of gains from education policy. Ross Clark has the details below.
- The NHS test-and-trace programme is not tracing the contacts of at least 60% of people who test positive for Covid-19.
- MPs have voted to end voting from home. At today’s PMQs, Boris Johnson offered MPs who are shielding the chance to vote by proxy, rather than just being paired.
- Researchers at the Crick Institute have discovered dozens of blood proteins that can predict how ill someone will get from Covid-19.
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