Covid: UK updates green list for overseas travel - BBC News
People returning from places such as Majorca and Malta will not need to quarantine from next Wednesday.
Preliminary data from the Office for National Statistics suggests there may have been an uptick in babies conceived in England and Wales when lockdown restrictions were first beginning to be eased in June 2020.

The report shows a 1.7% increase in the monthly fertility rate in March 2021 compared with March 2020.

This corresponds to an increase in conceptions occurring in summer 2020.

The monthly fertility rate broadly reflects the number of babies born per 1,000 women of child-bearing age.

But annual trends since 2012 show overall fertility rates have been decreasing year on year.

And 2020 was no exception. There were 615,557 live births in England and Wales last year- that is almost 4% fewer than in 2019.

ONS statistics also show there was no baby boom when the first lockdown was put in place - with fertility rates in March 2020 lower than the same period in 2019.

The report shows monthly stillbirth rates between March 2020 and March 2021 were below the five-year average - with the exception of November 2020 and January 2021.

There were 226 stillbirths recorded in January 2021, compared with 207 in January 2020.

ONS statisticians say this could plausibly be down a range of variation expected within these trends, but they point out the increase in January 2021 coincides with the height of the second wave of the pandemic.

You can read more on the birth and deaths figures here.