44K views · 372 reactions | British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has revealed the new UK strain of COVID-19 could be 30 per cent more deadly, with health chiefs now describing London hospitals as 'war zones.' 48 cases of the variant have been recorded in Australian hotel quarantine so far. #9News | Nightly at 6.00pm | 9 News | Facebook

144K views · 323 shares | BREAKING: Ventilators are among more than 600 pieces of life-saving medical equipment being sent from the UK to India as the country battles a surge in COVID-19 cases. Read more: https://trib.al/v9P0tRv | Sky News | Facebook

37K views · 253 reactions | The number of new daily Covid cases reported across the UK has reached an all-time high of 183,037 in the last 24 hours. The government’s message is to get boosted and tested, amid a scramble to secure more Covid testing kits. Keme Nzerem reports. | Channel 4 News | Facebook

167K views · 1K reactions | BREAKING: The UK has reported another 53,135 cases of coronavirus, the highest recorded daily total since the pandemic began. Dr Susan Hopkins, from PHE, said: "Whilst the number of cases reported today include some from over the festive period these figures are largely a reflection of a real increase." https://trib.al/qP32YwJ | Sky News | Facebook

234K views · 4.9K reactions | The first person in the UK has been given the Covid vaccine. Margaret, a 9o-year-old retired jeweller from Northern Ireland, has become the face of the fightback against the Covid-19 pandemic Read more: https://bit.ly/39SWDqm | ITV News | Facebook

427K views · 8.4K reactions | 90-year-old Margaret Keenan is the first person in the UK to receive the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine outside of a clinical trial. Read more about this huge moment in the fight against COVID-19: https://trib.al/guGJr9i | Sky News | Facebook