olly foster, thanks so much for going through all those details. things are moving so fast there in terms of sporting sections. let s bring you more on that decision. earlier, we spoke to the journalist lee reaney. he asked ipc president what he would say to the parents of 19 year old ukrainian biathlete yevhen malyshev who was killed in combat in ukraine yesterday. here s the exchange. i want to know what you would say to yevhen malyshev s parents. yevhen was a biathlete on ukraine s nationaljunior team. he was killed yesterday. he was killed yesterday in a bombing in kharkiv. you talked earlier about giving athletes the chance to compete. he will never get a chance to compete again. so, on behalf of his family,
report your results online so that test and protect can commence the contact tracing process and give you advice as quickly as possible. nicola sturgeon. vulnerable primary school children in northern ireland are expected to be offered a low dose covid 19 vaccine in the coming weeks, in line with the rest of the uk. last month, the government s vaccine advisors said five to 11 year olds with an underlying health condition or who live with someone who is immunosuppressed should receive two doses eight weeks apart. a decision on vaccinating all children in this age range has not yet been made. the latest estimate suggests that 3.7 million people in the uk had covid last week up from 2.3 million over the previous seven days. it s the highest number since the office for national statistics started compiling the figures nearly 18 months ago. our head of statistics, robert cuffe, has been giving me more details. highest in england,
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mike tyldesleyjoining us, epidemiologist. thank you very much. let s go straight to our correspondent injohannesburg. there correspondent in johannesburg. there has correspondent injohannesburg. there has been some diplomacy around this and the south african government questioning, to a degree, the uk s decision. tell questioning, to a degree, the uk s decision. , ., ., , decision. tell us more? that is ri . ht, decision. tell us more? that is right. good decision. tell us more? that is right, good morning. decision. tell us more? that is right, good morning. the i decision. tell us more? that is| right, good morning. the south african foreign minister issuing a statement today saying this decision by britain has been rushed and they are hoping to engage with the uk in order to get them to reconsider the travel ban. they say will be very damaging to the economies of both countries, but obviously particularly damaging to south africa, to its tourist industry at a time when tourists
there are fears it could be more transmissible and make vaccines less effective although scientists say it could take weeks to know for sure. so far only a small number of cases have so far been confirmed in africa and none in the uk. south africa has said it is concerned that the decision may have been rushed and will try to persuade the uk government to reconsider. here s our medical editor, fergus walsh. the speed at which new and stringent travel restrictions have been imposed show just how seriously this variant is being taken. between five and 700 travellers arrive in the uk from south africa every day. that s where most of the cases have so far been identified and where it appears the variant may be driving a new wave of infection. it may be more transmissible than the delta variant. and the vaccines that we currently have may be less effective against it. now, to be clear, we have not detected any of this new variant