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LIVE: Boris Johnson sets out emergency measures on Covid

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  • - Boris Johnson will make a televised address tonight at 8pm
  • - Primary schools have reopened today after the Christmas break
  • - 1,110 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in Dorset over the weekend
  • - King's Park Academy can’t fully reopen due to “significant staff shortages”
  • - St Clement's & St John’s CE Infant School in Boscombe will close from tomorrow to pupils except those of key workers
  • - Bearwood Primary and Nursery School in Barons Road, Bournemouth, has closed “following an increase in transmission and infection rates”
  • - Scotland will be placed in lockdown for January from tonight
  • - The BCP Council area is in Tier 4 of the coronavirus restrictions
  • - The rest of Dorset is under Tier 3
  • - Labour has called for new restrictions to be imposed within hours, saying the coronavirus is ‘out of control’
  • - Prime Minister Boris Johnson signalled tougher restrictions would be brought in within weeks
  • - The first doses of the Oxford University and AstraZeneca vaccine are set to be administered

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