Good afternoon. Im joined today by drvin dawakarand martin good afternoon. Im joined today by dr vin dawakar and Martin Hewitt. The roll out of our fantastic Vaccination Programme continues to make good progress. The brilliant nhs is vaccinating people at the rate of 200 jabs a minute. As of today, four million 900 and 73,000 people have been vaccinated across the uk. The nhs are working as quickly, efficiently and as fairly as possible to get the vaccine to priority groups. I want to take this moment and opportunity to counter some of the disinformation about the vaccine. Especially any messages targeted to those from an ethnic minority background. This vaccine is safe for us all. It will protect you and your family. Safe for us all. It will protect you and yourfamily. It is our safe for us all. It will protect you and your family. It is our best chance of beating this virus. So i urge everyone across our wonderfully diverse country to get the vaccine when their turn comes, to keep us
This is bbc news. In about an hour, well bring you todays downing street News Conference on coronavirus. First, the latest headlines. Uk deaths for coronavirus more than double as the latest daily figures show nearly 400 fatalities. Nhs workers call for urgent action to give them protective equipment, in the fight against coronavirus. I dont have any visors, i dont have a face shield or goggles. I should have a full gown if im following the guidance by the World Health Organization. And i think it is frightening that i am putting myself at risk. Police are told to take a consistent approach when using new Emergency Powers on restricting movement, after some forces are criticised for being too aggressive. The number of deaths in spain increases by 849, the highest daily number since the epidemic started. The total there now is over 8,000. And here, millions of plants, shrubs and trees could be thrown away after the Coronavirus Outbreak Forces the closure of 2,000 Garden Centres and nurs
Welcome to this bbc news special, as the lockdown enters its second week, we will be bringing you the daily press c0 nfe re nce we will be bringing you the Daily Press Conference from downing street as soon as we get it but lets first of all take a look at todays main div elements. The death toll from coronavirus in the uk has now risen to more than 1400. It comes as the government insists it is ramping up its capacity to test health and social care workers for the virus, amid confusion over whether it has reached its target, set for yesterday at 10,000 tests a day. Doctors leaders has warned shortage of tests has quality responds for the Health Service. This afternoon downing street has said that over 900 front line nhs staff were tested for the virus over the weekend. That is in addition to tests being carried out in a clinical setting. It comes as the Prime Minister announced 20,000 former nhs staff have returned to work to help in the fight against the virus. Also today, a breathin
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Peoples government has to get on with delivering the peoples priorities and, in the next few years, we must get on with our basic work. The number of cases of mumps in england is at its highest for a decade. Chinese Officials Say hundreds of Health Workers have been infected by the coronavirus and six have died. And why are the Liverpool Womens team facing relegation when the men are top of the league . And coming up in the sport on bbc news the World Health Organisation tells those running the olympics that theres no need to cancel tokyo 2020 because of the coronavirus. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. In a landmark case on freedom of expression, a high courtjudge has warned police against acting like the gestapo or the stasi when they investigate allegedly transphobic messages on social media. Thejudge ruled that Humberside Police acted disproportionately when they turned up at harry millers place of work and told him his tweets about tra nsgender people were a hate