Covid-19 news: MORE than one million people currently have Covid - as cases soared 70 per cent in a week across the UK, Boris Johnson has announced.
The Prime Minister said that the new variant of Covid had left the Government with "no choice" but to impose another national lockdown.
But he urged that persevering with the restrictions would allow the vaccines to be rolled out to the most vulnerable by mid-February.
Mr Johnson told a Downing Street press conference that more than 1.3 million Brits have now been vaccinated against Covid.