railway, and all the other tfl services i havejust mentioned, you know, they have worked all the way through the pandemic. masks have been part of the way we keep them safe and that is what we have got to stick with going forward. keep it safe and give people the confidence to use the tube on the other networks and that is what we would like to see. we just think the government has got it wrong and the mayor has got it right this time. thank you for your time. john leech from the rmt transport union. whilst i was talking tojohn, we have just had a comment through from the health secretary sajid javid about the vaccination programme. he is saying that two thirds of all adults across the uk have now had both doses of covid vaccine. two thirds of all uk adults have now had both doses and the health secretary is saying that means we have beaten our target by nearly a week. a very busy
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advisers, stage, from the world health organization, that we are wearing a face covering, particularly indoors where you can t keep your distance, reduces transmission so it leads notjust to greater public safety but greater public confidence as well. what we are doing in the absence of national legislation is using what is called the conditions of carriage, basically, the contract you have when you want to use tfl services, one of the conditions you have got to abide by is the requirement to wear a face covering and by and large, the great news is the vast majority of people in the last 12 months have used a face covering without the need for enforcement. i am confident both londoners and those visiting our city will continue to wear a face covering when they are using tfl services. i am sure the majority probably well but what about those, and there were thousands of them last year, who refused to do it? how does that work practically? british transport police say they can t enfor