Today scotland has snowfall, in the days ahead colder air that spreads across the whole of the uk, the risk of snow move southwards. Here is thursday with the cold air to a north, by saturday and sunday it works right the way southwards into the north of france. Here are scotland this afternoon, still a pretty tricky travelling conditions, particularly for higher routes for the next few hours, Snow Piling Up. Rain at lower levels, central belt with a mixture of rain and sleet and snow. That persist this afternoon, snow. That persist this afternoon, Snow Piling Up in places, an easterly breeze. Feeling chilly in the wind. Towns and cities, 3 4 c, lower elsewhere. In the south, comparatively mild but thats set to change. This area of low pressure will move southwards in the coming days are bringing rain overnight insert northern ireland, Northern England or perhaps note for the pennines, persisting across scotland. Ice a consistent issue for the north of the uk to begin with on thursday. Showers are sneaking into the south through thursday. Still mild here. Rain. They will thin out through the afternoon with the odd heavier one. Rain for Northern England and northern ireland, still stirring across scotland. Friday and saturday, after the snow in the next few days, the met office have issued an Amber Warning for the possibility of snow for the end of the week and weekend for scotland being a really disruptive. This front keeps this low pressure coming from scotland through the 48 hours of friday and saturday. Into sunday as well, there is the snow for the end of the week for scotland but increasing on saturday into Northern England and by sunday the whole thing starts to go further south. The position of the snow will change as we get closer. Just because it is hard to pinpoint Weather Fronts this far ahead. What is clear is the colder air will work south, where about that front is sitting on sunday there will be some heavy and persistent snow. Keep up with that element of the forecast in the coming days. In the shorter term, snow for scotland this afternoon and tomorrow, more destructive by the end of the week and for all of us the chance of things getting much colder and some snow the weekend. A reminder of our top story. Dramatic Study Results suggest the astrazenica vaccine does reduce the spread of coronavirus. Thats all from the Bbc News At One so its goodbye from me and on bbc one we nowjoin the bbc� s news teams where you are. Good afternoon, and heres your latest sports news. Developing news regarding the Australian Open. More than 500 players, officials and support staff may have to self isolate after a Hotel Quarantine worker tested positive for coronavirus. The hotel affected is the grand hyatt in melbourne. Our tennis correspondent, russell fuller, joins us now. Russell, can you explain how this has happened . This was one man who was working within Hotel Quarantine system who tested positive over at the weekend in melbourne. As a result, those who had been in close contact with him need to go into isolation for 14 days. All of those players and players and officials and support staff who are quarantining at the hotel, over the 14 day period up until this weekend, are deemed casual contacts, they must therefore sell vitally until they return a negative test. So you would hope in the majority of cases they will test negative and that they will be free to resume their lives, but clearly that there will be 24 hours or so when they will be worried about when they will next be able to play tennis and at the impact this will have on the Australian Open. The Australian Open is due to start on monday does this put it in doubt of going ahead . As things stand, the Australian Open goes ahead as planned. I think that has to be an innate of the whole impact on the warm up events creating place in melbourne at the moment. They will be played on a schedule there who will be affected by this announcement and will not be able to play their matches tomorrow. The consent will be whether this escalates. At the moment, one positive test. If that is contained, then there may be no dam for the people of melbourne and at the Australian Open. But if more cases are detected, we know the way the television is like to stay on top of the pandemic, they like to go for shop, shop lockdowns, and if they do do that then there are potential repercussions for the Australian Open which is due to begin on monday. Well, there were mixed results for the british players overnight in melbourne. Dan evans is through to the third round of the Murray River Open after a straight sets victory over portugals pedro sousa. It wasnt so good for the women though. In the third round of the gipplands trophy, in melbourne, Johanna Konta lost in three sets to romanias irina camelia begu. Disappointment, too, for katie boulter. She took the first set in her match against the second seed, naomi osaka. Boulter wasnt able to repeat tuesdays stunning victory over coco gauff, though, and eventually lost in three sets. Elsewhere in melbourne, Heather Watson lost her opening round match in the grampians trophy to Russias Veronika Kudermetova in straight sets. Watson only left Hotel Quarantine last friday and said her focus was on the upcoming Australian Open. Surrey batsman ollie pope has been added to the england test squad for the tour of india. Pope has fully recovered from a Shoulder Injury sustained against pakistan last august. He had been practising with the full squad over the past two days. England will have their final practice tomorrow ahead of the first test starting in chennai on friday. Bournemouth have sacked their manager, jason tindall, afterjust six months in charge. They were beaten 2 1 by Sheffield Wednesday last night and have won just once in their last eight league games. They play Birmingham City next on saturday. Arsenal have confirmed they will appeal david luiz� s red card from last nights match against wolves. Thats all the sport for now. You can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website thats bbc. Co. Uk sport. What was that . Ill need to write it down, i did it from memory. Just google it. Down, i did it from memory. Just gooale it. , down, i did it from memory. Just goole it. , down, i did it from memory. Just google it google it. You can tell people to uuoole google it. You can tell people to google it. Google it. You can tell people to google it. Jane. Google it. You can tell people to google it, jane, you google it. You can tell people to google it, jane, you have google it. 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First of all, | our Public Health measures at the border have been clear and consistent from day one. Thats from the introduction of the passenger at location form, which has now been upstream to carriers. Carriers have a financial penalty at liability of people are not completing their forms, and if they are not taking the test, passengers have to have a negative test before they can travel. Lets be clear, we are in a lockdown, people should not be travelling, the message is to stay at home. We have measures, compliance checks taking place day in, day out with border force, through the Isolation Service and through the Isolation Service and through the Isolation Service and through the police. Our measures are absolutely strong. Regarding hotels, my colleagues across government are working hard. These are big logistical and operational programmes we are talking about. They are under way now in terms of the word, the programming, i my colleagues in government will make the announcement surrounded date as to when that will be rolled out in due course. We have to work with operational partners. Whether it has hoteliers, whether it is tying into our existing systems and pastures coming in and travelling, and actually making those connections. There are logistical and operational considerations and factors that we will have to take on board. Our teams across government, our officials, are working on that right now. ,. , now. Baroness harding giving evidence to now. Baroness harding giving evidence to the now. Baroness harding giving evidence to the science now. 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All our thoughts are with his family right now. In terms of the tributes we will all be standing by and clapping for him this evening at 6pm, as the Prime Minister that has an ounce. But i think theres a special place in all our hearts for captain tom in terms of what he did. He was a light of inspiration at a time when we have suffered a great deal, individually and nationally, over the last 12 months, and i think all of us will think of him very fondly and fully cherish the work that he did throughout the pandemic to raise funds, but also to lift the soul of the nation in the way in which he did. Nicola sturgeon has said 38,484 people were vaccinated in scotland yesterday. The First Minister said this was the highest daily figure so far and 59 higher than the same day last week. Nearly 650,000 people in scotland have now received their first dose of a vaccine. Speaking at First Ministers questions, Nicola Sturgeon also announced that the deaths of 88 people had been reported within the last 24 hours after Testing Positive for coronavirus. Lets have a listen to some of what she said. 978 new cases were reported yesterday that is 5. 1 of all tests carried out. The total number of cases therefore stands at 182,269. There are currently 1,871 people in hospital that is a decrease of 63 from yesterday and 128 people in intensive care, which is 12 fewer than yesterday. However, i regret to report that in the past 24 hours a further 88 deaths were registered of patients who first tested positive in the previous 28 days and the total number of people who have died under the daily measurement is now 6,269. However, National Records of scotland has just published its weekly update, including cases where covid is a suspected or contributing cause of death and todays update shows that by sunday the total number of registered deaths linked to covid under the wider definition was 8,347. 440 of those deaths were registered last week, which is 12 fewer than in the previous week. 30 of the deaths occurred in hospitals, 97 in care homes, 38 at home or in other non institutional settings, and four of them in other institutions. Yet again i want to send my condolences to everyone who has lost a loved one during the pandemic. As of 8 30am this morning, 649,262 people had received their first dose of vaccine. That is an increase of 38,484 since the figure reported yesterday. This is the highest daily total so far and it is 59 up on the same day last week. As i said yesterday, the total figure includes 98 of residents in older peoples care homes, who have notjust been offered the vaccine, but have actually been vaccinated with the first dose. In addition, 87 of over 80 year olds living in the community have also now had their first dose. That figure is based on our original estimate of the number of over 80s, but work has been done with Health Boards to refine the estimate and that suggests that the percentage might actually now be higher. As of this morning, i can report 28 of people aged 75 79 have also had their first dose. The welsh health minister, vaughan gething, says there are 13 cases of the South African Covid variant identified in wales. He said this was an increase of three from last week. Mr gething said Public Health wales was carrying out a Detailed And Forensic Investigation into each of these cases to discover when and how each person became infected with the South African Variant Strain and whether there was any evidence of Wider Community spread. He was speaking at the welsh governments coronavirus briefing. Lets listen to some of what he had to say. To help us find and contain cases of the South African and the two brazilian variants, everyone returning to the uk from certain countries around the world where these variants are known to be present must quarantine together with their household. This requirement for Household Contacts to quarantine is an additional precaution to prevent any possible spread. All travellers are offered a test to check for the variants. If the tests are positive, the persons Household Contacts will also be tested. All the positive tests are then sent for Genomic Sequencing. In addition to this quarantine and testing system, we also have a well established Surveillance System in place in wales. This Genomic Sequencing is a proportion of all the tests undertaken in wales. More than 25,000 sequences were generated by the end of last year, thats one of the highest rates in the world. The majority of these come from samples taken from tests carried out in hospitals and Community Testing units. We are working with the uk government to expand our Surveillance Systems and to access more samples from tests processed at the Lighthouse Lab in newport. As a result of all of this work, 13 cases of the South African variant have been identified in wales to date. That is an increase of three from last week. Ten of these cases have clear links to either south africa or to international travel. In the other three cases, there is currently no clear evidence of how they may have caught the virus. Two of these cases are in north wales, in anglesey, and in conwy. They have the same genetic sequence and they were tested on the same day in the same laboratory. The third case is in neath port talbot. Public health wales is carrying out a Detailed And Forensic Investigation into each of these cases to discover when and how each person became infected with the South African Variant Strain, and whether there is any evidence of Wider Community spread. In each case, we will draw on the skills of our successful Contact Tracing teams to look back at where each case has been and who they have been in close contact with. We will also make use of the skills of Public Health wales epidemiologist, and we will also target testing to identify any further spread. We are working around the clock to discover how these three people became infected with the South African variant, and we will do everything we can to keep people safe. A group of mps and peers is proposing a new law to stop care homes from introducing blanket bans on visitors. Parliamentsjoint committee on human rights argues that Care Home Providers should only block a visit if they can prove its unsafe. The nhs says a Covid Vaccine has now been offered to all older residents at eligible care homes in england. The Prime Minister will be leading at the Downing Street briefing this afternoon. We will have full coverage on bbc one and the new channel from half past four. News channel. A student has woken up from a 10 month coma unaware of the covid pandemic despite catching coronavirus twice. 19 year old Joseph Flavill suffered a severe brain injury when he was hit by a car when he was out for a Walk In Staffordshire Last year. He went into a coma three weeks before the first uk National Lockdown was imposed on march 23. He caught covid twice in hopsital. His aunt, Sally Flavill smith, spoke to my colleague, victoria derbyshire, a little earlier and told her how hes doing now. He is doing really well, thank you. He is doing really well, thank you. 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Now, susan powell has the weather. Increasingly wintry weather is likely to cause problems for some parts of the uk as we go through the days ahead. At the moment, scotland are seeing some pretty heavy snow fell, largely across high ground, but it will turn colder for all of us as we move towards the weekend and the threat of snow will gradually shift further south. A little bit of a battle going on and fight between the cold and mild you to the south. By saturday and sunday, the cold it works its way all the way south, a cutting easterly wind, the snow will likely be in the south too. This evening, most over scotland, rain at lower levels, perhaps a Sleety Mixture for the central belt, but ice could be a problem for singh on friday. Temperatures hovering just above freezing in the towns and cities. Now down to the south, more rain for northern ireland, Northern England and north wales. Thursday, the snow keeps coming into scotland, also perhaps something i little wintry further south across the pennines for a time. A contrast in temperatures and of the uk, just above freezing in the north, double figures in the south, tom rainfall the southernmost counties of england. Snow persisting for scotland through friday into saturday, it has led to the met office issuing an ai Amber Warning. The centre of low pressure slides further south, as it does so it goes cold air along with it. Saturday, snow continues to pulsing across scotland. The colder air moving south. By sunday, is looking quite wintry across the central slave of the uk. A reminder of how that cold air digs its way south through at the end of the week, but particularly into the weekend. Towards the west, i think we will see a lot of sunshine but about a few increasingly cold. For central and eastern areas by the second of the weekend, there will be a risk of some widespread and potentially heavy snow for some. This area will change as a lot more music from run to run as we get closer to the time, but just to run as we get closer to the time, butjust keep that in the back of your mild. Any days ahead, things will turn colder, disruptive snow for scotland in the short term, more widespread this weekend. This is bbc news, i am simon mccoy. They had at two oclock. Dramatic Study Results suggest the astrazeneca vaccine does reduce the spread of coronavirus. That is really good news, its very positive because we know the vaccine is the way out of this and this new information from oxford shows that the oxford jab works. Information from oxford shows that the oxford jab works. The oxford ab works. Another study shows as the oxford jab works. Another study shows as many the oxford jab works. Another study shows as many as the oxford jab works. Another study shows as many as 8896 the oxford jab works. Another study shows as many as 8896 of the oxford jab works. 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