{"id":41053,"date":"2022-01-25T15:21:31","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T06:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2022\/jan\/25\/covid-live-news-johnson-faces-outrage-over-lockdown-birthday-japan-to-impose-restrictions-on-70-of-the-country"},"modified":"2022-01-26T10:03:09","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T01:03:09","slug":"covid-live-news-johnson-faces-outrage-over-lockdown-birthday-japan-to-impose-restrictions-on-70-of-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41053","title":{"rendered":"Pfizer launches Omicron vaccine trial; UK reports highest daily deaths since February \u2013 as it happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2022\/jan\/25\/covid-live-news-johnson-faces-outrage-over-lockdown-birthday-japan-to-impose-restrictions-on-70-of-the-country?page=with:block-61efea778f086b55f081504e#block-61efea778f086b55f081504e\">Company hopes vaccine will be ready for approval by March<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2022\/jan\/25\/covid-live-news-johnson-faces-outrage-over-lockdown-birthday-japan-to-impose-restrictions-on-70-of-the-country?page=with:block-61f01f4b8f086b55f08153e6#block-61f01f4b8f086b55f08153e6\">UK reports 439 deaths and more than nearly 95,000 cases<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2022\/jan\/25\/boris-johnson-braced-for-perilous-48-hours-with-release-of-sue-grays-report\">Boris Johnson braces for release of Sue Gray\u2019s report<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2022\/jan\/25\/scotland-to-relax-strict-work-from-home-guidance-from-monday\"> Scotland to relax strict work-from-home guidance from Monday<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2022\/jan\/25\/doctors-find-antibody-signature-long-covid\">Long Covid: doctors find \u2018antibody signature\u2019 for patients most at risk<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2022\/jan\/25\/met-police-investigating-downing-street-parties-cressida-dick-says\">Met police investigating Downing Street parties, says Cressida Dick<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2022\/jan\/25\/boris-johnson-birthday-party-live-news-partygate-covid-coronavirus-omicron-politics\">UK Covid and Boris Johnson developments \u2013 live<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The UK\u2019s transport secretary <strong>Grant Shapps<\/strong> is on Sky News \u2013 he has been championing the government\u2019s decision to drop Covid testing and quarantine requirements for international travel from 11 February, which he pointed out was in time for half-term holidays in England. He said:<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been a long time coming, but when you go abroad there are no more tests to take when you come home. So you don\u2019t need to take a test before you leave, wherever you\u2019re coming from, to get here. You don\u2019t need to take a day two test, it\u2019s already gone. You can just come home, and the only thing we ask you to do is fill in a passenger locator form, which we are going to simplify. That\u2019s it. No quarantine. No testing. And all that cost would fall away.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of other small things, including children 12 to 15 being able to use the NHS Covid app to demonstrate that they\u2019ve been vaccinated. That\u2019s where countries require that. And under-eighteens are exempt anyway. It\u2019s going to be a big change, much cheaper, and I\u2019m really delighted.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2022\/jan\/25\/covid-live-news-johnson-faces-outrage-over-lockdown-birthday-japan-to-impose-restrictions-on-70-of-the-country\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Company hopes vaccine will be ready for approval by March; UK reports 439 deaths and more than nearly 95,000 casesBoris Johnson braces for release of Sue Gray\u2019s report Scotland to relax strict work-from-home guidance from MondayLong Covid: doctors find&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2666,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[531,1066,221,88,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boris-johnson","category-coronavirus","category-europe","category-japan","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2666"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41053"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41084,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41053\/revisions\/41084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}