14 Oct 2022: Covid cases rise as one in 37 has virus in UK
20 October 2022: Liz Truss resigns, on forty-fifth day in office
25 Oct 2022: Rishi Sunak appointed as prime minister
28 Oct 2022: Concern over flu and winter viruses but Covid levels unchanged
30 Nov 2022: People in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou have clashed with police overnight in the latest protest against the country's strict Covid rules
7 Dec 2022: China abandons key parts of zero-Covid strategy after protests
22 Dec 2022: Coronavirus: China's hospitals seem to be filling up - WHO
27 Dec 2022: Covid in China: People rush to book travel as borders finally reopen
28 Dec 2022: Covid in China: Countries tighten rules as tourism set to resume
5 May 2023: Covid global health emergency is over, WHO says
6 May 2023: Charles and Camilla's coronation took place at Westminster Abbey
9 Jun 2023: Johnson announced his resignation as MP, after receiving a confidential report from a committee of the House of Commons that was looking into whether he had lied to Parliament over lockdown-breaking parties in Downing Street during the COVID-19 pandemic.
19 Jun 2023: The UK House of Commons Committee of Privileges inquiry into the matter referred on 21 April 2022 on the conduct of Boris Johnson concerns four specific assertions made by the then Prime Minister at Prime Minister's Questions about "the legality of activities in 10 Downing Street and the Cabinet Office under Covid regulations", events commonly referred to as Partygate. The investigation is concerned with whether Johnson misled the Commons when he made these statements. The Commons debated the report on 19 June 2023. Labour forced a vote and the Commons voted 354 to 7 in support, with a large number of abstentions.
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