UK reports 193 deaths – as it happened
by Nadeem Badshah (now); Damien Gayle, Martin Belam a from World news | The Guardian on (#5RHMF)
Only those vaccinated or recovered from Covid will be allowed to frequent restaurants and cultural venues in Austria ; UK records 34,029 new infections
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Germany recorded its second consecutive daily record for new coronavirus cases on Friday as infections pick up across Europe, and its disease control centre said unvaccinated people face a very high" risk of infection.
The country reported 37,120 new infections over the past 24 hours, according to the centre, the Robert Koch Institute. That compared with Thursday's figure of 33,949 - which in turn topped the previous record of 33,777 set on 18 December last year.