Covid-19: Taskforce for at-home treatments and Scotland to ease lockdown
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1. Search begins for at-home treatments
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced an anti-viral taskforce to investigate Covid treatments that could be taken at home, as he warned there will likely be "another wave of Covid at some stage this year" in the UK. Speaking at a Downing Street press conference, he said anti-viral treatments could be a part of the UK's defence against Covid, as "we will have to live with this disease". Also at the briefing, Nikita Kanani, medical director of primary care for NHS England, said uptake of the vaccine among ethnic minority backgrounds had tripled since February, outpacing the national average across all ethnicities.