Kent s week in politics: A grim milestone in Covd deaths, local elections and vaccination centres
Published: 06:00, 31 January 2021
It was a week in which the government gritted its teeth and faced up to yet more bad news on the number of deaths due to Covid19 and dropped a hint about when schools could re-open. Our political editor Paul Francis casts his eye over the week s news.
Boris Johnson faced a grim milestone this week in the pandemic
An unwanted milestone: Boris Johnson s
contrition over the grim number of corona virus deaths meant it was a sobering week dominated inevitably by the unwelcome news that more than 100,000 had fallen victim to the infection - of which 4,000 were in Kent.