The UK is to close all travel corridors from Monday (18th Jan) to "protect against the risk of as yet unidentified new strains" of Covid, the PM has said. Meanwhile, the latest data shows that for every 10 people who get the virus in the UK they are passing it on to roughly 12 and 13 others. One of the new variants from Brazil has arrived on UK soil, Germany makes moves to try and stem another outbreak amid rising cases and Bez from Happy Mondays joins the lockdown fitness craze.