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UK Covid live news: fresh accusations Hancock neglected care homes as he faces MPs’ questions

Latest updates: health secretary to be questioned by MPs from Commons health and science committees about handling of pandemic

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Greg Clark, the chair of the science committee, opens the committee hearing.

He says the hearing will focus on four issues: the initial response to the pandemic; lockdown measures and test and trace; vaccines; and decisions taken in the autumn and winter of 2020.

EU leaders attend G7 summits and this morning Ursula von der Leyen, the European commission president, held a press conference ahead of her participation at the summit in Cornwall.

Asked about the dispute with the UK over the Northern Ireland protocol, she insisted that the EU had “shown flexibility”. But the protocol had to be implemented in full, she said. She told journalists:

We have been debating that for years and we have found the one and only solution.

We have a treaty on that – the withdrawal agreement. It has been signed by both sides. It is important that we now implement the protocol.

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