Professor chris whitty professorjonathan van tam who became household names during the pandemic names during the pandemic have been knighted and drjenny harries, chief executive of the uk health security agency, and drjune raine, head of the vaccines regulator mhra, are both made dames. theyjoin almost 80 olympic and paralympic athletes who competed in last summer s tokyo games have also been honoured. lizo mzimba reports. their faces have become familiar to the public throughout the pandemic. now the chief medical officers for england, chris whitty. if lots of people were vaccinated that reduces the risk of transmission in the community. ..for scotland gregor smith and for a wales frank atherton have all been knighted. a knighthood too for england deputy chief medical officerjonathan van tam. also being recognised for their roles responding to covid, jennie harries of the health security agency in june raine, head of the uk s
The gap between the second vaccine dose and the booster will be cut from six months to three. and all 12 to 15 year olds will now be offered a second vaccine dose. the government s deputy chief medical officerjonathan van tam says it s pretty likely that vaccine effectiveness will be reduced by the new variant, but hopefully only to a small extent when it comes to preventing severe disease. as the number of cases increase in the uk and around the world, scientists believe it will take about three weeks to understand the effects of omicron. our health editor hugh pym has the latest. boosting the boosters, like those being given in derby today. that is now the official response to the new variant. experts have told ministers as well as all adults being offered boosterjabs, the gap between the second dose and the next should be slashed to three months. the message is that with the chance the vaccines would be so effective against
On a day of extraordinary drama at westminster. the mail gives its whole front page over to the story including a comment section accusing mps of demeaning our democracy . a different lead in the telegraph which reports that covid vaccines for nhs workers won t be mandatory until the spring. the express splashes on the warning by england s deputy chief medical officerjonathan van tam about the need for caution about covid as winter approaches. and the mirror carries a story about boris johnson flying back from the un climate change summit in glasgow in a private jet for a dinner in london. so, let s begin. we start with the house of commons story. the slick of the daily mail which is sometimes sympathetic to the government but on this occasion it is not. shameless mps slink back into sleep. it took a lot of money and an outrageous breach of rules and an outrageous breach of rules and house of commons chose to spare him and interrupt the entire system.
Professor van tam, we are unfortunately at a time. a big thank you for your questions on your questions answered and a big thank you to you as well, professor van tam, thank you forjoining us on bbc news. just a reminder, you can hear a special bbc newsbeat on radio one at 5:45pm this evening on all of this and thanks for watching. hello, good afternoon. the showers should not be as numerous today but there will still be the odd heavy and thundery one around as we go through the rest of the day. the met office have issued an amber warning for storm evert. that is going to bear down on the south west of england through this evening, with some damaging winds. unseasonably windy which means there will be large waves, rough conditions at sea. if you are sleeping under canvas, and many heading to the beach, as i say, there will be some rather dangerous conditions around. for the rest of the day, ahead of that system, we will see the driest,
Of covid vaccines have been given out around the world and 84 million in the uk, so if there was anything very major going on in terms of side effects and long term consequences, we would, by now, i think i ve seen those signals. and, you know, we just haven t. and it is back to my point that we have got to learn to live with covid and it may well be that, in the future, it is going to be more and more difficult to access certain venues and go on holiday without having been vaccinated. adam, let s turn to you. you have had a one jab, you have had coronaviruses well and you lost your sense of smell for six months. what are your thoughts listening to the professor? are your thoughts listening to the rofessor? ., ~ , , ., , professor? hello. my question is, i live in the north-east professor? hello. my question is, i live in the north-east of professor? hello. my question is, i live in the north-east of england i live in the north east of england and covid live in the north east of e