Covid-19: UK economy ‘to surge back’, and helping children through lockdown – BBC News

Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Friday morning. We’ll have another update for you this evening.
The Bank of England’s chief economist has predicted that the British economy will surge back from the latest coronavirus lockdown, thanks to the vaccine programme and large amounts of “pent-up financial energy”. Writing in the Daily Mail, Andy Haldane said the economy was like a “coiled spring” and that due to the number of vulnerable people who would have been…

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