➡️ Health and social care tax announced ➡️ Four in five UK over-16s double jabbed ➡️ Fall in sexually transmitted infections Tuesday evening's coronavirus update
Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday evening. We'll have another update for you tomorrow morning.has announced a new health and social care tax
will be introduced across the UK to pay for reforms to the care sector and NHS funding in England. The tax will begin as a 1.25 percentage point rise in National Insurance from April 2022, paid by both employers and workers, and will then become a separate tax on earned income from 2023. The proceeds from the tax will lead to £12bn a year being raised, the prime minister says, with the majority going into catching up on the backlog in the NHS created by Covid.
, after claims were made in a newspaper report. The i newspaper said plans had been drawn up to extend the school half-term holiday, if the number of hospitalisations continue at the current level. The i said a full lockdown was unlikely - but the government could introduce some rules as part of a "firebreak". However the Department for Education said the report was "not true" and the prime minister's spokesman also denied the report.
to help tackle plastic pollution. It is estimated 129 billion single-use face masks are used every day around the world - with 55 million in the UK. One Welsh firm is now working to turn hospital waste into new masks, made with 65% recycled materials. Old PPE, like face masks, is currently incinerated - producing climate-warming carbon emissions - or sent to landfills.Get a longer daily news briefing from the BBC in your inbox, each weekday morning, by signing up here.
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