Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Friday evening. We'll have another update for you tomorrow morning.From 17 May, people resident in England will be able toTransport Secretary Grant Shapps announced at a Downing Street briefing the "green list" of destinations will include Portugal, Israel, Gibraltar, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Brunei, Iceland and the Faroe Islands, as well as more remote islands.
A decision to offer under-30s in the UK an alternative to the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine over a possible link to rare blood clots is being. According to the medicines safety regulator, there have now been 28.5 million doses given out, with 242 cases of the rare clots and 49 deaths. But the risk is slightly higher for younger people - who are also less at risk of Covid - meaning the benefits and risks are "more finely balanced".