Lockdown in wales will last for three more weeks at least but children could return to schools there after the february half term. Around 300,000 people are expected to leave hong kong for britain using a new visa route which opens on sunday. Investors respond with outrage after Trading Platforms halt the buying of shares in the us games firm gamestop and other companies. It follows days of frenzied trading that led to a massive increase in its value. Hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world. A new Coronavirus Vaccine has been shown to be 89. 3 effective in large scale uk trials. The novavax jab is the first to show it is effective against both the uk and South African Variants of the virus. As you can see from this graph, the uk has secured 60 million doses of the jab, which will be made in stockton on tees. The doses are expected to be delivered in the second half of this year if approved for use by regulator. Meanwhile, the European Medicines Agency will mee
we do recognise there are some difficulties across the country, both in pharmacies and with home testing requests. we do release and are continuing to release test slots for individuals and so they should just keep trying through the day. obviously, as the christmas period subsides, then the testing capacity should be more available to them. we do have good supplies and we will be endeavouring to get those to the right places. the uk health security agency said almost 8 million lateral flow test kits would be supplied to pharmacies by new year s eve. people wanting pcr tests should keep checking the official website as more slots were being made available each day. hugh pym, bbc news. the immunologist professor peter 0penshaw told us the nightingale hubs showed admirable planning as there is great concern about the possible impact of the rising numbers of covid cases. we don t know until 0micron has worked its way out of the younger population,
from respiratory viruses. this is his reaction. i don t think this is a scientific decision. it is clear that the rates are still very high, especially in some sectors of the community, particularly in children and people who look after children, parents and teachers, and although most people do have antibodies now, the vast majority of people have antibodies either because of vaccination or infection, that does not mean to say they are completely resistant to infection and can t transmit it to those who have not been vaccinated or can t respond to the vaccine. so i would absolutely redouble our advice that everyone should make sure they are fully vaccinated at this stage. at the peak injanuary, the uk recorded 273,000 cases in a day. deaths that same day were 217. so while cases have dropped dramatically the number of people dying from the virus on average are around the same. here s peter 0penshaw again.
self isolate if you test positive, a full month self isolate if you test positive, a full month early. self isolate if you test positive, a full month early. under the current rules anyone who tests positive must self isolate for at least five days. now though from february 24th the law will be replaced with guidance that s if the government is satisfied with the covid data at that point. there s been lots of reaction. first, here s the opposition labour party. we would want to see what the scientific advice on this is and we know he has got motivation is nothing to do with the signs are dull to do with protecting his political position to get some benefits for his backbenchers. the infection rates are still high. gfxon tuesday, 66,183 people tested positive for covid. and 314 people died. and there are currently close to ia,000 people in hospital with covid. peter 0penshaw is a member of nervtag that s the group that advises the british government on new and emerging threats
sent to all those aged over 75, care home residents, and anyone aged 12 and over with a weakened immune system. official figures show infection rates are rising in all age groups, including the over 70s. spring boosters are already being rolled out in wales and scotland. peter 0penshaw is a professor of experimental medicine at imperial college london. i spoke to him earlier. this was predictable- i spoke to him earlier. this was predictable. we i spoke to him earlier. this was predictable. we knew - i spoke to him earlier. this was predictable. we knew this - i spoke to him earlier. this was | predictable. we knew this might happen with a very transmissible variant of the vibrance transmitting at very high levels at a time when the public were getting the message that, actually, covid was over. i think that was a mistake really to think that was a mistake really to think we could just sort of switch off the public health measures, which were so effective at preventing spread. whic