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ritons could begin getting vaccinated against the coronavirus in the next three weeks, Matt Hancock said today, after hopes rose with the Pfizer announcement.
The Health Secretary said today that he had told the NHS to be ready to start vaccinating people from the beginning of December. It came after the deputy chief medical officer, Professor Jonathan Van-Tam, told a televised press conference that he was “hopeful” that there would be “some vaccination by Christmas.”
The British Medical Association said plans are now being made to run “mass vaccination” clinics seven days a week, with doctors “ready” to give patients the injection “as soon as possible.”
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Matt Hancock has struck a note of optimism at the start of today’s media rounds …
More than 780,000 Britons lost their jobs between March and October – ONS
The number of UK workers on payroll dropped slightly last month and fell by 782,000 between March and October due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.
In case you missed them yesterday …
Here are the latest figures from the UK:
Yesterday, the government said that 194 more people had died in the 28 days after testing positive for Covid-19.
It brings the official death toll in the UK to 49,238.
However, separate figures released by UK statistical agencies for deaths when Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate, along with additional data on deaths that occurred in recent days, show that there have now been 65,000 related deaths. with the coronavirus in the UK.
The government said that, as of 9am on Sunday, there had been another 21,350 laboratory-confirmed coronavirus cases in the UK.
It brings the total number of cases in the UK to 1,213,363.
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The United States reaches 10 million cases of Covid-19
The United States registered its 10 millionth case of coronavirus, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University, on the same day that Pfizer and BioNTech announced their vaccine.
Right now, the Baltimore-based university tracker showed 10,018,278 recorded cases in the United States since the pandemic began and 237,742 deaths.
Both are the highest tolls in absolute terms in the world.
Northern Ireland ministers have yet to make a decision on lowering coronavirus restrictions
Stormont ministers have ended discussions on whether to ease COVID-19 restrictions in Northern Ireland without making any final decisions.
The ministers will meet again Tuesday morning to continue discussions before Thursday’s scheduled end of a four-week blackout.
Kate Bingham “ expected to resign over unreliable cronyism allegations, ” according to reports.
The chair of the UK Vaccine Task Force, Kate Bingham, will leave her post at the end of the year, it was reported tonight.
The Guardian and the Financial Times report that Boris Johnson’s vaccine task force director will resign amid criticism that he spent £ 670,000 of taxpayer money on a public relations firm.
Tonight the FT reports that government officials said of Bingham: “She is leaving at the end of the year.”
Donald Trump Jr questions timing of Pfizer vaccine announcement
Pfizer today revealed that its vaccine was 90 percent effective among study participants and would produce 1.3 billion doses, enough to treat 650 million people, by the end of next year.
It seems like it’s not early enough for the Trumps.
