https://youtu.be/9Auq9mYxFEE

Key points:

• Health Secretary Matt Hancock to lead Number 10 briefing from 5pm – alongside NHS England’s Professor Stephen Powis and Public Health England’s Dr Susan Hopkins
• ‘Surge testing’ across eight English postcodes after 11 cases of South Africa variant found with no travel links (and 105 in total)
• England may implement a nationwide rather than regional tier system after lockdown, Boris Johnson says
• UK records 18,607 daily cases and 406 deaths. 9,296,367 people have had a vaccine – a rise of 319,038 on yesterday
• Every elderly care home resident in England and Wales has been offered a vaccine
• UK orders 40 million doses of French vaccine Valneva for 2022 – in sign it is preparing for longer-term jabs programme
• Captain Sir Tom Moore in hospital with COVID-related breathing difficulties
• Lockdown ends in the Isle of Man – with social distancing measures optional
• Follow our vaccination tracker here
• Updates by Chris Robertson, Aubrey Allegretti and Jimmy Rice