"I think it becomes slightly more complicated when you get to younger age groups where the risk-benefit equation is more complicated.". Mr Poonawalla said the company has "chosen to prioritise India temporarily for two months" and hopes to then restart exports. ... Nigel Farage gets heckled during live news broadcast. Matt Hancock has commented on the news from French drugmaker Valneva that its early-stage trials have produced promising results. He also said he expects many countries to be added to the UK's "green list" when a traffic light system is introduced for travel. For the first week initially, stores will open for two extra hours per day on average, typically an hour earlier and later, with times varying by store. Canada daily coronavirus cases graph: Johns Hopkins, More on that SAGE prediction that another wave of COVID 'highly likely' later this year. "Parents and children should continue to attend all scheduled visits and can contact the trial sites if they have any questions.". After July, the prediction is just 2 million doses a week - down 49% from the previous figure of 3.9 million. Stay ahead with Sky Sports. Bereaved families began painting the wall to remember their loved ones and it will eventually be made up of almost 150,000 hand-drawn hearts. ", More on the Valneva vaccine... Health secretary says results are 'really encouraging'. Poundland is reopening more of its hibernating shops and plans to open more new stores over the next six months to help support the UK's recovery from the coronavirus pandemic. Ikea restaurants will remain closed until 17 May, although bistros, which operate a contact-free takeaway service, will remain open along with Swedish food markets. Recently deceased former president John Magufuli had been one of Africa's most prominent COVID sceptics, claiming at one point that three days of national prayer had eradicated the virus. As a final comment, he said: "We're sticking to it!". Download our app for award-winning journalism and breaking news stories from the UK and around the world. "In summary: in the next few hours we will say that the connection exists, but we still have to understand how this happens.". Top official at Europe's medicines regulator says there is link between AstraZeneca vaccine and blood clots - but the benefits still outweigh the risks. John Ryley is the head of Sky News, a role he has held since June 2006. The Serum Institute of India's (SII) CEO Adar Poonawalla said the company would have to meet domestic needs before it can restart shipping overseas. Three in five have had COVID vaccine - health secretary. Last week, President Biden revealed that 90% of adults would be eligible for a jab by 19 April, in addition to having a vaccination site within five miles of where they live. A statement said that government advisers will "identify the best solutions to allow the presence of the public at the Olympic Stadium in Rome in June". Our Transfer Centre has the latest football transfer news, details on done deals, and speculation from the rumour mill. Get the latest BBC News: breaking news, features, analysis and debate plus audio and video content from England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Ian King Live (10:00-11:00) Sky News Business Studio, CNBC Europe, 10 Fleet Place, London Adam Boulton: All Out Politics (11:00-12:00) Four Millbank, Westminster Samantha Washington Sky News Today (12:00-14:00) Sky Central (Studio 21), Osterley Isabel Webster: Sky News … The reporting will be ramped up again if necessary. It comes amid increasing reports of links between the vaccine and blood clots. Speaking from the drugmaker's Macclesfield site today, Boris Johnson has said we should continue rolling out the AstraZeneca jab despite concerns about rare cases of blood clots. Empty cylinders stretch across a road in the Peruvian capital Lima, as people wait for a shop to open to refill them. The latest breaking news, comment and features from The Independent. The government does not make public its vaccine supply figures, but the above projections are given to academics for their modelling work. 'This is me': Khloe Kardashian breaks silence over leaked unedited photo. "It appears that risk is age related, it may possibly be - but the data is weaker on this - related to sex. The North American state has seen 23,083 coronavirus deaths and 1,017,130 cases during the pandemic, according to Johns Hopkins University. Indonesia reports coronavirus case with 'Eek' mutation. But what do other people think? We've got to be realistic about international travel, says PM. ... Andrew Neil leaves BBC to launch new UK news channel. Mask-wearing, however, will remain for the time-being under the plan. Primark chief executive Paul Marchant said: "Safety remains at the front of our minds. He warned the UK would have to be "realistic" about what can be done, saying many of the destinations people want to go to are "suffering a wave" of infections. One modelling group at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine says a pessimistic, but realistic, scenario is for a third wave to peak at the end of July or in early August, with hospital admissions on the same scale as in January. Some experts say the number of clotting cases reported is about what would be expected anyway - with or without a vaccine. A traffic light system will be imposed, with a green watchlist to warn people if countries are dropping down a level. Sky News - First for Breaking News, video, headlines, analysis and top stories from business, politics, entertainment and more in the UK and worldwide. Watch the best live coverage of your favourite sports: Football, Golf, Rugby, Cricket, F1, Boxing, NFL, NBA, plus the latest sports news, transfers & scores. Sky brings you all the latest news, sport and entertainment stories. He said the advice of the UK's regulatory agency (MHRA) is to "keep going out there, get your jab, get your second jab" and "we need to keep that going". Schools will not be required to impose two-metre social distancing rules but will be asked to consider other measures for reducing infections. John Ryley is the head of Sky News, a role he has held since June 2006. "How about some realistic, positive predictions based on current excellent outcomes from our vaccine programme. Some 31,622,367 people have had one shot, and 5,496,716 have had both. Sky News is a British free-to-air television news channel and organisation. But more than a year into the pandemic, scientists have a much better handle on the virus. It is nicknamed "Eek" by some scientists for its apparent ability to evade natural immunity from previous COVID-19 infection and to reduce protection offered by current vaccines. The tournament was due to be played last year but was delayed due to the pandemic. Scotland to make asymptomatic testing available twice a week for all citizens. ", Key player out of Real Madrid match with Liverpool after contracting COVID. It is owned by Sky Group, a division of Comcast. ", Vaccine exports from India could resume by June. We take you to the heart of the stories that shape our world, offering live events, eyewitness reports, expert analysis and opinion. It is expected to stretch more than a kilometre long when finished. Watch CNN TV for free from the UK for the latest news around the world and your favorite CNN shows. Professor Devi Shridhar, chair of global public health at Edinburgh University, says easing restrictions on foreign travel might be a mistake. Dr Peter Drobac, a global health expert, has said that "vaccines alone will not be able to protect us in the short term", with measure like mask wearing still necessary. There's been plenty of talk between MPs this morning about whether COVID passports should be used to let people enter some non-essential premises. Email address required so we can keep in touch about your services. Speaking at a news briefing, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has confirmed no new deaths have been recorded in the last 24 hours - although she said this may be an "underestimate" because yesterday was a Bank Holiday. Now, new president Samia Suluhu Hassan has marked a departure from her predecessor after announcing she would form a committee for scientific research into COVID-19. "I know how impatient people are to book their holidays but I think we just have to be prudent at this stage.". Ikea said it was preparing to reopen stores across England and Wales from 12 April following the reopening of its stores in Scotland on 5 April. Real Madrid defender Raphael Varane has tested positive for COVID. Asked about a pessimistic model suggesting a third wave could be as big as the one in January, he said all models have "slightly different predictions" and the government will be using a variety of such studies to inform its decisions. John Lewis, Primark and Ikea outlines plans for reopening. While most projections suggest a smaller wave next time, modelling by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) shows a third wave could be bigger than the one we saw in January - but it is a little confusing, given the success of the vaccine programme. 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Its death toll stands at 97,273, up by 426 in the last day, and there were also 8,045 new cases reported. If India's surge in infections doesn't subside, "I am scared of what we will have to do, and what will happen," he said. Numbers plateaued during March but started to fall again towards the end of the month. Sky News - Saturday - 10. "Like" us to get updates from Sky News direct to your news feed. Sky News provides breaking News, video headlines, analysis and News stories from business, politics and entertainment. Latest Golf news from Sky Sports. Prices may vary if you live in a flat. Marco Cavaleri, head of vaccine strategy at the EMA, told an Italian newspaper that it is "increasingly difficult to state that there is no cause and effect relationship between vaccination with AstraZeneca and very rare cases of unusual blood clots". ", England's vaccine supply forecast cut sharply. This is roughly a 16% drop compared to the government's previous forecast of 3.2 million doses a week. Coronavirus latest: Three in five UK adults have had at least one jab but experts now expect a continued drop off in vaccinations. US President Joe Biden is set to announce that the deadline for states to make all adults eligible for a vaccine will be brought forward to 19 April, according to the AP. There are special features on main stories and key categories to explore to get further depth. Concerns over Oxford/AstraZeneca jab in young people explained. Even the optimistic scenarios point to a third wave, though the peak is lower and more drawn out, putting less pressure on the NHS. He said the vaccination programme so far has been "fantastic" and "it would be a shame to throw all this away". People wait to fill empty oxygen tanks in Peru. And Professor Sir Mark Walport, of the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), told the BBC: "I suspect we're going to have to live with some measure of social restrictions at least throughout this year, and we'll see, hopefully next year we'll be more and more normal, and in a couple of years we should return to complete normality. However, opposition leaders claim he died of complications from COVID-19. Vaccine epidemiology expert Mark Jit, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told Sky News that restrictions like hand washing and mask wearing should stay "until we are absolutely sure that it's safe to go back completely to normal lives". "And so the older you are, the less the risk is and also the higher the risk is of COVID so the risk-benefit equation really points very much towards being vaccinated. Most children in Scotland to return to schools full-time after Easter holidays. Number of daily first vaccine doses lowest since early January. Asked whether the blood clot reports could be linked to the vaccine, he said: "In my opinion, we can now say it, it is clear there is an association with the vaccine. The latest seven-day rolling average of new cases stands at 3,256 - down from 5,065 a week earlier. From next weekend, the UK's coronavirus figures are likely to look a little different. That's the highest since 20 April 2020, when France was in its first lockdown. Correct at 23/03/2021. He said any plans for using testing to allow international travel would be made "as flexible and affordable as possible" and he had personally raised the idea of using cheaper lateral flow tests instead of PCR. Analysis: We may not get the summer of freedom we hoped for. It feels like we are repeating the mistakes of last summer. An official from the World Health Organisation says that the body expects by Wednesday or Thursday to have a fresh assessment of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine. These are only possible scenarios, and computer models are only as good as the data you enter. April 2021. "And we just don't know that. Dr Tildesley said we would need to consider "what rise in cases we are prepared to accept" as lockdown eases as there is a "balance of risk" between opening businesses and preventing a surge in deaths. Brazil is set to overtake the United States as the country with the highest COVID-19 death toll, according to some estimates. California has administered 20 million shots, including four million to the hardest-hit areas, and infection rates are low. Turkey and Italy are due to play the opening match of the championships in Rome on June 11. Scientists seem to be in disagreement about how a big a third wave of coronavirus would be in the UK, with some modelling estimates more pessimistic than others. The jab was tested in 153 adults at three dose levels, with two shots given three weeks apart. We take you to the heart of the stories that shape our world, offering live events, eyewitness reports, expert analysis and opinion. French vaccine reports positive results in early-stage trials - with plans to submit for UK approval in autumn. The long lockdown and the rapid rollout of the vaccine have been highly effective. "We will communicate and hold a It will then report the outcome of the discussion. The University of Oxford has paused a small study on giving its vaccine to children and teenagers while the UK medicines regulator carries out a review into reports of rare blood clotting cases in adults. Lack of medical oxygen to treat COVID patients means some people have now had vaccine - health secretary a... 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