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Portrait of the week: No. 10 parties, a ten-year drugs strategy and Burmese arrest

issue 11 December 2021

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Sajid Javid, the Health Secretary, said that the Omicron variant of coronavirus was spreading by community transmission in ‘multiple regions of England’. He gave the number of cases detected as 336 by 6 December, and the next day another 101 were found. Anyone coming from a foreign country would have to pass a coronavirus test within two days of catching a plane to Britain.

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