Britain will remain in some form of lockdown until at least March despite the roll out of coronavirus vaccines, Professor Chris Whitty has warned. The chief medical officer said not enough Brits will have been inoculated against Covid-19 over the next three months to keep the most vulnerable out of hospitals. He urged people not … Read more
Chris Whitty, England’s Chief Medical Officer, refused to back Oxford’s vaccine The Chief Medical Officer has dodged giving the AstraZeneca jab his full backing as the company revealed it will run a new Oxford vaccine trial. Chris Whitty refused to back the injection when asked about the controversy surrounding data from its late-stage trials at a Downing Street … Read more
Chris Whitty, England’s Chief Medical Officer, refused to outright back Oxford’s vaccine tonight Chris Whitty tonight ducked questions about Oxford University’s breakthrough Covid vaccine after experts accused it of being based on ‘shaky science’. England’s Chief Medical Officer refused to outright back the jab when asked about the controversy surrounding data from its late-stage trials at a Downing … Read more
‘Don’t hug granny if you want her to survive to be hugged again’: Downing Street experts are unanimous that just because it’s not illegal to embrace relatives at Christmas doesn’t mean you should Prof Chris Whitty and Patrick Vallance said they want people to see their families But they added they would not encourage people … Read more
How does government decide what Tiers areas are put into? Boris Johnson promised to base Tier allocation on ‘common sense’, and the government’s ‘Winter Plan’ set out a series of metrics to be used. They are: Case detection rates in all age groups; Case detection rates in the over 60s; The rate at which cases are … Read more
Chris Whitty urged caution tonight as he warned that there is still a ‘long haul’ to get back to normal after Oxford unveiled its ‘vaccine for the world.’ England’s chief medical officer said the results from his Alma mater did not mean that ‘the virus will disappear’ as he kept uncharacteristically quiet throughout much of … Read more
Scots could spend longer in coronavirus self-isolation than the English after Nicola Sturgeon said she would not follow any time reduction introduced in England. The First Minister said she had no plans to cut the quarantine period from 14 days amid claims that it could be slashed to 10 days following a row between Mr … Read more
The self-isolation period is expected to be cut from two weeks to 10 days – rather than the seven days it had earlier been hoped would be enough. Ministers had wanted to halve the quarantine time to a week amid reports of low compliance and were expected to announce the plans last week. But after … Read more
Surely now is the time for Boris Johnson to offer the courage of his hero Winston Churchill. We need it more than ever. Yet last week he became the reincarnation of LedruRollin, the French revolutionary, who, as the mob rampaged through Paris in 1848, declared: ‘I must follow them, for I am their leader!’ What … Read more
An official prediction that coronavirus deaths would soon pass those registered in the first wave has been quietly corrected by the government, it emerged last night, because they were too high. The projections led to the country being hit with a second national lockdown and were shown at a Downing Street press conference last Saturday. … Read more