This is bbc news. Im ben brown. The headlines. A momentous day in the global fight against coronavirus. 90 year old Maggie Keenan is the first person in the world to receive the Pfizer Vaccine outside trials. The moment marks the start of the biggest Vaccination Campaign in the history of the nhs. Well have the latest on the roll out from across the uk, as hundreds follow margarets example. I say go for it. Go for it because its free and its the best thing thats ever happened. Please go for it, thats all i say, you know . If i can do it, well, so can you. Ijust urge people to contain their impatience. Its a very, very exciting moment, but theres still a lot of work
to be done and a lot of discipline to be maintained. After months of disruption for schools and their pupils, the Scottish Government says next years higher and advanced higher exams will be cancelled. We will adopt the new model that has been developed and base awards on teacher judgement of evidence of learner attainment.
This is bbc news the headlines at six. Calls for more support for the uks travel and Tourism Sector after the government imposes tougher restrictions on arrivals to keep out new strains of coronavirus. A further 1,295 people have died in the uk according to the latest covid figures. But the number of new infections has dropped to its lowest level so far this year. The worlds biggest Vaccination Programme gets underway in india. The country hopes to inoculate three hundred Million People byjuly, with priority being given to frontline healthcare workers. Senior Police Officers in the uk says their investigations have been compromised after hundreds of thousands of arrest records were deleted from the Police National computer. President Electjoe Biden sets out plans to speed up immunisations in the United States
promising to vaccinate 100 Million People within his first 100 days in office. And frustration for many australians unable to return home because of the pandemic as some of the w
The Coronavirus Vaccination Programme has been under way for four days. Our Health Correspondent James Gallagher has been looking into the safety of the vaccine. Mass vaccination for coronavirus is under way, and eventually, millions of us will be offered a jab. So, what do we know about its safety . Well, first of all, i want you to hold this number in your mind. One in a thousand of the entire uk population have already died after being infected during the pandemic, and this figure is rising daily. This is the known threat that any side effects have to be balanced against. So, what are they . More than one in ten people can expect fatigue, fever or muscle pains as their body responds to the jab. But these tend to be mild and can be handled with pa racetemol. Around 20,000 people have been given
the Pfizer Vaccine in trials. Two developed adverse events that have been classified as severe. One patient had a shoulder injury after being given the vaccine, another developed swollen lymph
This is bbc news, the headlines at 8pm. Calls for more support for the uks travel and Tourism Sector after the government imposes tougher restrictions on arrivals to keep out new strains of coronavirus. A further 1,295 people have died in the uk according to the latest covid figures. But the number of new infections has dropped to its lowest level so far this year. The worlds biggest Vaccination Programme gets underway in india. The country hopes to inoculate 300 Million People byjuly, with priority being given to frontline healthcare workers. Senior Police Officers in the uk says their investigations have been compromised after hundreds of thousands of arrest records were deleted from the Police National computer. President Electjoe Biden sets out plans to speed up immunisations in the United States
promising to vaccinate 100 Million People within his first 100 days in office. And coming up in half an hour, here on bbc news our world tells the story of the holidaymakers who found the
This is bbc news the headlines at seven. Calls for more support for the uks travel and Tourism Sector after the government imposes tougher restrictions on arrivals to keep out new strains of coronavirus. A further 1,295 people have died in the uk according to the latest covid figures. But the number of new infections has dropped to its lowest level so far this year. The worlds biggest Vaccination Programme gets underway in india. The country hopes to inoculate 300 Million People byjuly, with priority being given to frontline healthcare workers. Senior Police Officers in the uk say their investigations have been compromised after hundreds of thousands of arrest records were deleted from the Police National computer. President Electjoe Biden sets out plans to speed up immunisations in the United States
promising to vaccinate 100 Million People within his first 100 days in office. And coming up at 19. 30 mark kermode takes a look at the newest releases in this weeks edition of the film r