Is about 90 minutes. Good morning, everyone. And welcome to todays hybrid hearing of the National Security subcommittee. On the committee of oversight and government reform. Pursuant to the house rule, some members will appear in person and others will appear remotely. Since some members are appearing in person, let me first remind everybody that pursuant to the latest guidance from the house attending physician, all individuals attending this hearing in person must wear a face mask. Members who are not wearing a face mask will not be recognized. Let me also make a few reminders for those members that are appearing in person. You will only see members and witnesses appearing remotely on the monitor in front of you when they are speaking in what is known as active speaker mode. A timer is visible directly in front of you. For the members appearing remotely i know that you are all aware by now. But let me remind everyone of a few points first. You will be able to see each other speaking
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Reporter neil, good afternoon to you. Start with astrazeneca. That is the top headline. It is covid19 vaccine as you mentioned having a good immune response in older results this is a phase two trial. Heefficacy will not be done untl they resume phase three trials you mentioned pfizer around biontech, they will file for their emergency approval with the fda form for the covid19 that tells us they are on track for the timeline they promised. Johnson johnson ready to have its vaccine ready for approval by february of 2021. Like i said, a bunch of different choices here. New york city in a little worse shape. Public School System is shutting down as of today. The stiffs Public Schools are taking a break, excuse me, because the coronavirus test Positivity Rate of 3 has been at that level for a seven day rolling average. It was reached on wednesday. The decision impacts over a Million Students and their parents and the city is trying to manage these cases and the weight that is placed on th
Lockdown in wales will last for three more weeks at least but children could return to schools there after the february half term. Around 300,000 people are expected to leave hong kong for britain using a new visa route which opens on sunday. Investors respond with outrage after Trading Platforms halt the buying of shares in the us games firm gamestop and other companies. It follows days of frenzied trading that led to a massive increase in its value. Hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world. A new Coronavirus Vaccine has been shown to be 89. 3 effective in large scale uk trials. The novavax jab is the first to show it is effective against both the uk and South African Variants of the virus. As you can see from this graph, the uk has secured 60 million doses of the jab, which will be made in stockton on tees. The doses are expected to be delivered in the second half of this year if approved for use by regulator. Meanwhile, the European Medicines Agency will mee