According to data analysis by Lloyds Bank, the Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in people spending money around one kilometer closer to home.

According to the bank, who looked at its customers’ use of debit cards, the average distance people travelled to spend has dropped from 3.9km (2.4 miles) to 2.7km (1.7 miles).

The data compared the period from the beginning of March 2020 to the end of February 2021 with the same time period the previous year.

Two people have been arrested at an anti-Covid restriction protest in Copenhagen this weekend.

One individual was arrested for throwing fireworks at police while the other was detained for violent behaviour, AFP reported.

The protest was organised by a group which calls itself “Men in Black Denmark” and has had regular demonstrations since the end of 2020.

The group has previously likened the country’s Covid-19 restrictions to a “dictatorship” and protestors moved through the streets chanting “Freedom for Denmark” and “Mette Ciao,” a reference to their prime minister, Mette Frederiksen.

The rally came just a day since a 30-year-old woman was sentenced to two years in jail for her behaviour at a previous “Men in Black Denmark” march in January.

The government continued to source personal protective equipment from companies facing modern slavery allegations, despite promises to crack down on suppliers accused of labour abuses, The Independent can reveal.

Just five months after the Home Office announced “powerful new measures” to tackle modern slavery risks in the UK’s supply chains, it has emerged that frontline healthcare workers are using medical gloves manufactured by Malaysian firm Brightway Holdings.

The government continued to source personal protective equipment from companies facing modern slavery allegations, despite promises to crack down on suppliers accused of labour abuses, The Independent can reveal.

Just five months after the Home Office announced “powerful new measures” to tackle modern slavery risks in the UK’s supply chains, it has emerged that frontline healthcare workers are using medical gloves manufactured by Malaysian firm Brightway Holdings.

Head of the Office for National Statistics (ONS), Professor Sir Ian Diamond, has said he has “no doubt” there will be another wave of Covid-19 infections in the autumn.

Speaking on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show, the head of the ONS highlighted a need for understanding of how the data is moving forward, while calling the vaccine rollout “wonderful.”

These comments come after Professor Chris Whitty underlined that reopening UK society too quickly could result in yet another surge in coronavirus cases.

Charities including Cancer Research UK, Mencap and the Terrence Higgins Trust have written an open letter to people who are in priority group six in an attempt to dispel fears around the vaccine.

The group includes people ages 16 to 64 who have underlying health conditions. These include chronic respiratory, heart, kidney and liver disease and neurological conditions, immunosuppression, asplenia, diabetes, morbid obesity and severe mental illness.

The 18 charities: “The good news is, even if you have not received your letter yet, you can now get an appointment at a vaccination centre or community pharmacy, quickly and easily, by using the national booking system or calling 119 in England.”

Rollout of the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine should be temporarily suspended after reports of blood clotting elsewhere in Europe, Ireland’s deputy chief medical officer has said.

Serious blood clotting has been recorded after inoculations in Norway, where the AstraZeneca vaccine programme has been paused along with the rollout in Denmark.

In the run-up to Easter 2020, Melissa Darby felt constantly sick. Around two weeks before, the country had gone into its first national lockdown on 23 March, and daily press conferences told us how many people had contracted and died from the novel coronavirus that had upturned our lives. But it wasn’t the news alone alone that was unsettling Darby. The 31-year-old also noticed that smells felt unusually overpowering. At the suggestion of her mother, she took a pregnancy test on Good Friday. When it came back positive, she started crying.

“It was the height of the panic at the very beginning when we didn’t know [who] was going to survive,” she tells The Independent from the home she shares with her husband Jack in south London. “No one wanted to go to hospitals and they were filling up and it was a really scary time.”

Britain’s vaccination programme is the “envy of the world”, the Scottish secretary Alister Jack will claim as the latest government figures showed over 23.6 million people have received a first dose.

Paying tribute to the NHS and the armed services who have helped administer Covid-19 jabs, the cabinet minister will describe the rollout so far as a “truly astonishing achievement, a task on a scale that dwarfs anything since the war”.

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