Day of action including injudo and fencing. I ll have all the latest. I m ben mundy in london. Today s other main news. Plans to require football fans to be fully vaccinated if they want to go to premier league matches from october are being considered by the government. British mps have warned that taxpayers will bear the cost of the government s coronavirus spending for decades. Wildfires in northern california force thousands into evacuation centres while a covid outbreak in oregon puts firefighters into quarantine. A warm welcome to tokyo, it s day two of the olympics there has been an extraordinary upset in the women s cycling road race with austrian mathematician anna kiesenhofer taking gold. She has not had a professional contract since 2017, and raced ahead of the peleton with more than aokm still remaining. In men s swimmming,18 year old tunisian swimmer, ahmed hafnaoui, has pulled off a stunning victory the outsider won the men s 400 metre freestyle gold despite qualify
hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the bloomberg reporter, lizzy burden and political commentator and nonresident fellow at new york university faiza shaheen. tomorrow s front pages starting with. the first image from tonight s mission to mars dominates the front of the times. it also covers journeys closer to home, reporting that ministers are becoming more confident with the prospect of foreign holidays this summer. the i has carried out an opinion poll on lockdown restrictions saying 52% of people support schools reopening in two weeks time. the mail says the uk will offer over forties a vaccination by the end of next month. the pfizer and oxford vaccines cut covid infections by two thirds, according to figures in the telegraph. in an interview with the financial times, the french president says the us and europe shou
help for key workers living with long covid. and a nail biting day for nasa as it aims to land its perseverance rocket on the surface of mars. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. there s been a marked decline in levels of coronavirus infections in england since january, say scientists tracking the epidemic. a study by imperial college london found that infections have fallen by two thirds across england since the latest lockdown began, with an 80% fall in the capital itself. but it warns that levels are still high, particularly among primary school age children and young adults, with one in 200 testing positive between the 4th and 13th february. that s similar to levels seen in september. katharine da costa has the details. friends and family kept apart. many businesses kept on hold. lockdown has taken its toll on all of us, but researchers say it has helped to take infection levels in england down to those last seen in september. imperial college s react survey looked at
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