The Independent - November 27, 2021
The Independent - November 27, 2021
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November 27, 2021
Bring in restrictions to stop variant in UK, say advisers
The UK was last night preparing for the arrival of the potentially more dangerous and transmissible new Covid variant, as yesterday saw Europe record its first case.
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Vaccine could be tweaked in 100 days for new variant
The company that developed the Pfizer Covid-19 shot, BioNTech, has said it could manufacture and distribute a new version of its jab within 100 days if the new omicron variant is found to make existing vaccines less effective.
1 min
Mutation injects fear into market with £72bn losses
Around £72bn was wiped off the value of London’s top shares in a stock market rout sparked by the new Covid variant in southern Africa. The FTSE100 suffered its worst one-day fall since the early days of the Covid pandemic yesterday, dropping by – 3.6 per cent.
2 mins
Israel ‘on verge of state of emergency' as new strain is detected in three travellers
Israel is on the “verge of a state of emergency”, the country’s prime minister warned, after a worrying new coronavirus variant was detected in at least three people.
2 mins
Travel dreams grounded as South Africa flights banned
Heartbroken travellers are still in shock after learning that South Africa, along with five other African countries, were put back on the UK’s red list from noon yesterday.
2 mins
Kurdish woman named as victim of Channel disaster
A young woman who was trying to join her fiance in the UK has become the first victim of the mass drowning in the Channel to be identified.
2 mins
‘I didn't know asylum rules while being persecuted'
After the migrant tragedy in the Channel this week, one person describes the trauma of their perilous route to Britain
3 mins
‘This is no life': Dunkirk camp migrants ask for help
Migrants living in the bitter cold in a Dunkirk campsite have asked why the UK does not do more to help them, just days after 27 people died crossing the English Channel.
3 mins
The Tories are still haunted by the spectre of Farage
“The small boat migrants are causing my voters more grief than sleaze, rail in the north and social care,” one of the many disgruntled Conservative MPs told me. I was surprised: he doesn’t represent a seat on the south coast, but in Yorkshire.
3 mins
Home Office refuses to say if Channel migrants are already being pushed back
The government has vowed to press ahead with plans to force migrant boats back to France after the English Channel’s deadliest disaster, but is refusing to say whether any pushbacks have already happened.
4 mins
Fishermen blockade ports of entry over Brexit licences
French fishermen who claim they have been “humiliated” by Britain over post-Brexit operating licences have staged blockades at the Port of Calais and Channel Tunnel rail link in an effort to disrupt trade.
3 mins
France won't interfere over the fishing boat blockades
In its way, there is something awesome about the French tradition of direct action. With apparently little interference from the French authorities – itself part of the ritual – a relatively small bunch of French fisherfolk temporarily blockaded the ports of Calais and St Malo yesterday.
2 mins
Celebrated composer Stephen Sondheim dies
Tributes have been paid to Stephen Sondheim, the theatre composer, who has died aged 91.
2 mins
Driver dies from falling tree as Storm Arwen batters UK
A driver was killed when a falling tree hit his car as strong winds, rain and snow swept into the UK.
2 mins
Four teens held over killing of 12-year-old in Liverpool
A 12-year-old girl, Ava White, has died after suffering “catastrophic injuries” in an assault in Liverpool city centre on Thursday night.
2 mins
For you, Jeremy, your days in the party may be over
Starmer says Corbyn ‘knows what to do’ to be reinstated
2 mins
Irish Sea link ‘does not justify' £300bn price tag
Boris Johnson’s proposed bridge or tunnel to Northern Ireland could cost more than £300bn and should not be built, a government review has found.
2 mins
German air force transfers Covid patients as hospitals buckle under virus pressure
Daily infections at record high in ‘worst-ever health crisis’
3 mins
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