Brits should NOT hug each other yet: SAGE expert says people must wait until Covid cases are ‘really, really low’ to safely embrace friends and relatives Sir Mark Walport, a SAGE member, said there is ‘still quite a lot of infection about’ Today marks England’s first step out of lockdown with outdoor meeting allowed Around … Read more
Boris Johnson tonight gave a humble assessment of the early days of the government’s coronavirus response – admitting it had been like fighting ‘in the dark’. At a sombre Downing Street briefing to mark the anniversary of the first lockdown, the PM tried to strike an optimistic note about the prospects for getting back to normal, … Read more
Downing Street is under growing pressure to spell out how much taxpayers’ money was spent on the Government’s 30-minute documentary on the UK’s coronavirus vaccine roll-out. Critics have labelled the video, entitled ‘A Beacon of Hope: The UK Vaccine Story’, a piece of ‘expensive government propaganda’ after a trailer for the film was unveiled. Number 10 … Read more
Boris Johnson was today accused of funding ‘expensive government propaganda’ after unveiling a dramatic trailer for a 30-minute film entitled ‘A Beacon of Hope: The UK Vaccine Story’. Slickly-produced and set to dramatic music, the 50-second preview clip features interviews with government scientific advisers including Jonathan Van-Tam, Sir Patrick Vallance and Chris Whitty. Critics accused Number … Read more
Labour has slammed Downing Street for spending taxpayers’ money for a ‘propaganda’ documentary about the vaccine roll out. No10 shared a dramatic trailer for the official documentary on Britain’s race for a Covid-19 jab, titled A Beacon of Hope: The UK Vaccine Story. Set to intense music, the 50-second advert features clips from interviews with … Read more
The Government has unveiled a dramatic trailer for an official documentary about Britain’s Covid-19 vaccine rollout, called: ‘A Beacon of Hope: The UK Vaccine Story’. Set to intense music, the 50-second advert features clips from interviews with leading UK scientists Jonathan Van-Tam, Sir Patrick Vallance and Chris Whitty. Professor Van-Tam describes Britain as having been … Read more
The Government has unveiled a dramatic trailer for an official documentary about Britain’s Covid-19 vaccine rollout, called: ‘A Beacon of Hope: The UK Vaccine Story’. Set to intense music, the 50-second advert features clips from interviews with leading UK scientists Jonathan Van-Tam, Sir Patrick Vallance and Chris Whitty. Mr Van-Tam described Britain as having been … Read more
Chris Whitty today warned a deadly third wave of coronavirus is inevitable later this year as he defended England’s ultra-cautious roadmap out of lockdown. The chief medical officer said ‘all the modelling’ suggests cases will spike at some point after restrictions are eased, despite uptake of the vaccines being high. He claimed it was ‘perfectly realistic’ that tens … Read more
Sir Patrick Vallance today said it was too early too draw conclusions from Israel’s vaccination drive after alarm that hospitalisations have not yet dropped. Israel is currently leading the global vaccination drive, with nearly 39 per cent of its citizens having had at least a single dose of a jab so far. However, infection and … Read more
The South African coronavirus mutation poses a ‘significant re-infection risk’ and could overpower vaccines, new research has found. The strains discovered in Britain, South Africa and Brazil all have mutations of a spike protein, which enables the virus to latch onto human cells and therefore plays a key role in driving infections. But it is one … Read more