the firm said 600 stores did not receive deliveries. they say the ongoing shortage of drivers, alongside staff having to isolate because of covid alerts, is causing major disruption. the company boss has been speaking to our business correspondent emma simpson. this is the world s largest fresh milk dairy. we process over a billion litres of milk from our cooperative farmer owners a year, so you can see this is a vast operation. in fact, one in every five bottles of milk that s sold in the uk is made here. since the beginning of april, we have experienced driver shortages, so being able to take the products from a factory like here in aylesbury to the supermarkets, and that has now increased to such a level where we re not able to deliver milk to every store that would like it. can you quantify this? normally, we deliver milk to 2,400 stores daily, so we re a very big milkman.
trent fall. there is a different way of measuring infections carefully watched and this is where the office of national statistics goes out and randomly sampled people in the population, about half a million people in the uk. that can measure notjust people with symptoms but people who are not sick with covid at the time. that data shows in the week to last saturday actually cases where rising slightly, across the uk, short of a million people, 950,000 had covid in that week, up from 830,000 the week before, up in england, wales and northern ireland, down slightly in scotland. why these different trends? a lot could be down to timing, that ons survey measures people up to last saturday, so it might have missed this very recent fall in those daily cases. it
people double jabbed. and critical workers can escape self isolation through testing although there are only 300 testing sites in operation. it is interesting increasingly it seems sir keir starmer is looking for points of conflict with the government over covid rather than consensus. our political corresondent iain watson. england s chief midwife has written to gp practices, obstetricians and midwives, stressing the need to encourage pregnant women to be vaccinated against coronavirus. estimates suggest that only one in ten pregnant women have had the jab but the number of mothers to be in hospital with the virus is rising, as our health correspondent cath burns reports. the message couldn t be any clearer. expectant mothers should take action to protect themselves and their babies by getting the covid vaccine. any midwife not encouraging pregnant women to do so will now be going against official guidance.
surveillance system shows of the 742 pregnant women admitted to hospital with covid since the start of february, only four had received a single dose of the vaccine, and none had been double jabbed. the later also suggested the delta variant has increased the likelihood of pregnant patients having more severe symptoms. at chelsea and westminster they outline other risks, too. if you are umming and aahing about having the covid vaccination, it is really important to remember that in pregnancy, if you aren t vaccinated, you are more likely to end up needing respiratory support. unfortunately it can lead to early miscarriages or preterm births which can have a detrimental impact on your baby s health. more than 51,000 pregnant women in england have had theirfirstjab and nearly 21,000 have had their second. but that means hundreds of thousands remain unvaccinated.
at the antenatal clinic at chelsea and westminster hospital most of the pregnant women we spoke to had beenjabbed. it is just for the safety, i started getting worried especially during my third trimester. luckily i haven t had covid, i have been very lucky, but i thought it was important to have it to protect me and the baby now as well. yes, i decided to do it. i was really nervous before i had it done. then i did a bit more reading i thought this is perfect. i ve had it done and feel much safer, happier and freer to go out. i decided it was, i was in a better position having the vaccine - than i was potentially being exposed to the risk of covid. but it is not always a straightforward decision. if it had been going for five years or something, i would feel confident but because it is so new, i think that is why i am still hesitating. so i think that is what is keeping me from getting vaccinated. new data from the uk obstetrics