pop up clinics and walk in centres for students to receive covid vaccines, as the new academic year begins. students who are not yet vaccinated are being urged to getjabs during freshers week. megan paterson has the details. a new addition to the usual freshers week festivities at oxford brookes university pop up clinics and grab a jab drop ins, all aimed at encouraging as many students as possible to get vaccinated, amid some concern about covid spread in young people. we are aware just before the summer there was quite a high increase in covid infection rates amongst the 18 24 year olds, so we re really keen to try and sort of capture them just as they re coming back to university, to make sure in the environment they live in maybe in shared houses that we minimise the spread and the transmission of covid as much as possible. obviously, we want people to really enjoy their university terms and so it s to really make it possible for them to do that. in england, 72% of young pe
that some of these variants can affect the efficacy of vaccination and that is the risk that we are running, actually. let s take a look at the latest coronavirus figures, and there were 30,141; new infections recorded, in the latest 24 hour period. that means in the last week, there was an average of 29,561 new cases per day. 8068 people were in hospital, across the uk, according to the latest figures, with 164 deaths that s of people who died within 28 days of a positive covid i9 test. the average number of deaths per day in the last week, is now 143. 89.3 percent of people aged 16 or over, have had theirfirstjab, while 81.6 %, are now double vaccinated. after the french president ordered the recall of ambassadors to australia and the us, washington says it plans to hold
amber or green and instead, from next month, all countries will be designated either red or open. with people returning from rich countries are still having to quarantine in designated hotels. read countries. the number and type of covid i9 test is also changing from fourth october. you no longer to take a lateral protest taking off and will not need a expensive pcr test on return if fully vaccinated. however, there must be a lateral flow test from two days of arrival. people who have been given vaccines for proof of use in the uk will now have those inoculations recognise, regardless of where in the world they were originallyjabbed. eight countries are coming off the red list from the 22nd of september, including turkey, pakistan, egypt and kenya. the changes only apply to england at present, wales and scotland say they will take the eight countries of the red lists but will not adopt the changes to testing for now. our transport correspondent reports.
the new rules come into force on october the 11th. the government s latest coronavirus figures show there were 32,651 new infections recorded in the latest 24 hour period. that means there was an average of 29,106 new cases per day, in the last week. there were 8,068 people in hospital as of yesterday, across the uk. 178 deaths were reported in the latest 2a hour period, that s of people who died within 28 days of a positive covid i9 test. the average number of deaths per day in the last week, is now 142. 89.3% of people aged 16 and over, have had theirfirstjab. 81.5% are now double vaccinated. the new housing secretary, michael gove, has decided to pause controversial government planning reforms. it s understood he wants talks with conservative mps who ve voiced their concerns about the proposals. our political correspondent, nick eardley is at westminster. so this plan is being paused, but government has committed itself
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