Hello and welcome. The uk governments chief scientific advisor, sir patrick vallance, has warned that tougher restrictions are likely to be needed in more areas of england to control the new coronavirus variant. It comes as experts from the World Health Organization say theres no evidence that the new variant is more severe than existing strains. Tougher restrictions were brought in for london and parts of southern and Eastern England at the weekend, after existing measures proved unable to control the spread of the more infectious form of the virus. Jon donnison reports. In london and the south east around 17 Million People are already living under the tightest tier 4 restrictions. But now a warning from the governments chief scientific advisor that stricter measures are likely to be needed in more areas of england to try to control the virus. Areas of england to try to controlthe virus. It is areas of england to try to control the virus. It is likely that this will grow in numbers of
Welcome to bbc news. Im mike embley. Our top stories hopes grow for a covid 19 vaccine after every volunteer involved in atrial at Oxford University shows an immune response to the jab. They are extremely promising, because these are the type of responses that we believe will be associated with protection. President trump says he will send more federal Law Enforcement officers to deal with protests. Local Officials Say its an abuse of power. In thejohnny depp libel case, his ex wife amber heard says she was afraid the Hollywood Star was going to kill her. And polar bears under threat from Climate Change why they could be extinct by the end of this century. We start with the global race to find a vaccine to halt the pandemic. Here in the uk, scientists at Oxford University say the vaccine theyre developing appears to be safe and does trigger an immune response. The uk government has already ordered 100 million doses of it. Heres the bbcs fergus walsh. 3131197. So much is riding on this.
Download the my account app to manage your appointments making todays Xfinity Customer Service simple, easy, awesome. Ill pass. Good morning, im ali velshi. An impressive victory overnight in South Carolina for joe biden who hopes his projected primary win will reignite his bid. This comes just hours before the allimportant super tuesday vote. Well get to that in a moment. But, first, this sunday morning. New coronavirus related fears in the United States as Washington State reports the first Death Associated with the global illness in the United States. A man in his 50s with Underlying Health concerns has died. Officials say he had no history of traveling abroad or contact with anyone he knew to have the disease. Health officials in seattle are now concerned over a potential of Community Spread or community infection. A number of other people at a Washington State longterm care facility are ill with respiratory symptoms or pneumonia after two women tested positive at the same location
Indefinitely. The ncaa basketball tournament canceled. Major League Baseball and soccer on hold for weeks. And the pag ga is canceling all upcoming events. Ohio, michigan, maryland and oregon are all closing schools across the state starting next week and this morning. The mayor of washington, d. C. , closed schools in the district as well. Theme parks, disneyland and Universal Studios hollywood will start shutting down tomorrow. Broadway, Carnegie Hall and the met have all gone dark after new york joined other states in banning large gatherings. And the president s travel ban from europe kicks in at midnight this evening. This morning, dr. Anthony fauci appeared on morning joe to talk about where we go from here. Two things were looking for. A, things are going to get worse before they get better. B, whats happening now with many more tests that are going to be going out very, very shortly with people now very seriously taking containment and mitigation into effect. Hopefully well be
Healthcare. [applause] to town halls katie path victim who says that is what were seeing right now. If you push people out of their Employer Health care, towards government care, that is what the president intended in that is a move to socialize medicine . Absolutely. So president obama before he was elected way back when in 2008, we saw him campaigning on this idea of want to go single payer. Fast forward to 2013 or last year and 2014 now, senator harry reid said the goal is absolutely not only to get people into a single payer system but to get rid of employerbased insurance altogether. Now there is something to be said about trying to get People Insurance they cant get it from their employer but the whole idea here is that people are going be to stripped of their insurance from their companies because the companies cant afford it and theyre pushed into the Government Program because the individual mark has been destroyed already by obamacare. We were not told that at the time 0 obam