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UK counts record number of COVID deaths
British hospital workers are exhausted as wards fill with COVID-19 patients.
British hospital workers are exhausted as wards fill with COVID-19 patients. Meanwhile, controversy surrounds the government's decision to offer single vaccine doses. We hear from the medical frontline, and from an eminent immunologist.
Also in the programme: new US president Joe Biden launches his pandemic policy; and how can people look after their mental health during lockdown?
(Picture: vaccination in the Northeast of England. Credit: PA)
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