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• Covid in the UK: Reported cases at lowest level for a month
  While case numbers are high, they are falling, but deaths are rising week on week, figures show.
• Covid-19: Booster jab bookings open for ages 16 to 17 in England
  Teenagers in England who had their second dose three months ago can book from Monday, the NHS says.
• Covid coma pregnancy: Wolverhampton mum 'devastated' to lose son
  The mum-to-be from Wolverhampton said she was so unwell she did not know her baby was stillborn.
• 'High confidence' Omicron is less severe in UK
  Health advisors say vaccines give them confidence that most people will not become severely ill with Covid.
• What’s really going on with Covid deaths data?
  A bigger proportion of deaths recorded in the daily data are people who died with Covid, rather than from it.