the return game at ibrox. the first test between england and india gets under way this morning at trent bridge. england will be without ben stokes. you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website. that s all the sport for now. let s get more now on one of our stories from earlier this hour, as new research shows that children who become ill with coronavirus are unlikely to suffer with long term effects. scientists at king s college london found illness from covid lasted, on average, no more than a week in people aged between five and 17. they describe the findings as reassuring. with me now is emma duncan, professor of clinical endocrinology at king s college london who worked on the research.
a return to some heavy and potentially thundery showers. hello this is bbc news. the headlines. experts are set to recommend all 16 and 17 year olds in the uk should be offered a covid vaccine, with the aim of driving down infections. 13 year old sky brown becomes britain s youngest medallist of all time after winning bronze in the women s park skateboarding final. and a gold medalfor team gb s hannah mills and eilidh mcintyre in the women s 470 sailing class, making hannah mills the most successful female sailing olympian of all time. belarusian olympic sprinter who sought sanctuary in a foreign embassy in tokyo has now left japan, boarding a flight to vienna this morning.
children who have had symptomatic covid 19 and have had prolonged illness duration, but it also encourages about the children and their parents, and for that both the children and their parents. matter, doctors and teachers as well, that most children will get better as time goes on. and paul elliot, professor of epidemiology and public health medicine at imperial college london, who we saw in that report, joins me now, he s also the director of the react programme. paul, good to have you with us. what do you think of the idea of vaccinating 16 and 17 year old? we vaccinating 16 and 17-year-old? we have vaccinating 16 and 17 year old? - have just completed the 13th round of our reactor survey will be go to large numbers of the population and “p large numbers of the population and up to mid july. react survey. we were finding high levels of infection under the age of 2a and really evidence that the epidemic at that time was being driven by
with space on their services so scare and cargo rates so high, the shipping lines themselves are making record profits although they argue this is simply compensation for the many lean years they have suffered in the past, but they are the only happy ones. for importers, retailers and consumers in europe and north america as well as suppliers in east asia, this is a crisis they could certainly do without and the ever given remains a potent symbol of a troubled year they would like to forget. theo leggett, bbc news. some coronavirus data from the office of national statistics, more than nine in ten adults in the uk now have antibodies to coronavirus, roughly 93% of adults tested by the ons during the week ending the 18th ofjuly had covid antibodies, up
but also other countries are vaccinating children over the age of 12. some people are worried about the risk reward benefit, if the concerns about covid in young people are as you have just indicated not that great. are as you have ust indicated not that areat. , , are as you have ust indicated not that great. are as you have ust indicated not that great. our study did not look directl at that great. our study did not look directly at vaccination that great. our study did not look directly at vaccination but - that great. our study did not look directly at vaccination but our i that great. our study did not look| directly at vaccination but our data has been looked at by those who are considering vaccination in children and they are using it to help inform decision making and recommendations. i have spoken to parents, and there is a group of parents lobbying, because they say children do suffer the effects of long covid and it has been underestimated. but this is a pretty sizeabl