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Boris Johnson issues update on plans to end lockdown on June 21. (PA) Boris Johnson has issued an update on Boris Johnson’s plan to end all legal lockdown restrictions on June 21. The Prime Minister has said there is still “nothing in the data at the moment that means we cannot go ahead with Step 4” of lifting coronavirus restrictions. “But we’ve got to be so cautious,” he added, as he said infection rates were increasing. “We always knew that was going to happen,” the Prime Minister said, adding: “What we need to work out is to what extent the vaccination programme has protected enough of us, particularly the elderly and vulnerable, against a new surge, and there I’m afraid the data is still ambiguous.
2 June 2021
The Global Vaccine Confidence Summit convened world leading experts to commit to greater international collaboration to build vaccine confidence globally.
Speakers at the Summit included: Matt Hancock MP, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, UK Government, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General at World Health Organization (WHO), Helle Thorning-Schmidt, former Prime Minister of Denmark and former CEO of Save the Children International, and Co-Chair of Facebook’s Oversight Board.
LONDON: As part of its G7 Presidency, the UK Government convened the Global Vaccine Confidence Summit today, a first-of-its-kind event, bringing together global experts from across the public and private sector to build and maintain confidence in vaccines.
Famous faces including the Queen and England’s deputy chief medical officer Professor Jonathan Van-Tam have helped to encourage “sky high” vaccine confidence in the UK, Matt Hancock has said.
Meanwhile, the public have had confidence in the vaccine programme because people have not been able to “pay their way to the front of the queue”, he said.
The Health Secretary said that nine in 10 adults have said they will get, or have had, their Covid-19 jab.
The comments come as the nation has reached the milestone of giving three-quarters of all adults their first Covid-19 jab. Almost half have had their second.