You. we have heard all the warnings, the models are saying we need to do something otherwise things could go very, very wrong and we would have a third wave. is four week s enough? i think where they are coming from with this is on the one hand, the picture is very, very rosy. we have a very significant portion of the population who have been vaccinated, about 55% of adults have had two doses of the vaccine and three quarters plus have had at least one dose. but that still means that half the population, give or take, haven t had any population yet. what that means is we have a very significant proportion of people who could catch it and could end up with a very significant illness if they were to catch it. so what they are trying to do is give us more time in order to vaccinate more people and get more people critically double vaccinated because that is what you need to confer enough protection against this new variant, the indian variant, in order to make things as safe as possible.
Vaccinated, the lower the likelihood of a person who has got the infection running into a person who is susceptible to infection and maintaining a chain of transmission. so we have to push the level as high as possible. if you have a variant of the level which is more transmissible, you have to vaccinate more people in the population, a higher level of herd immunity as it were, to get the same level of protection and it is because those goalposts have moved in the context of the more transmissible variant, they are buying more time. the rates at which the vaccines are being administered as it is very high. the model are saying if we have this bit more time, this translates into this many more people vaccinated, there s many more people vaccinated, there s many more people double vaccinated, there s many more people who are incapable of catching the infection and that should be sufficient to head off the current rise in cases that we are seeing. that is the concern, of course. that even
Yet are that variant. what we have not seen yet are variants such as the one that yet are variants such as the one that came yet are variants such as the one that came from south africa or perhaps that came from south africa or perhaps the newer one from india that are perhaps the newer one from india that are sufficiently different from the parent to strain so that our vaccines the parent to strain so that our vaccines would only provide partial protection vaccines would only provide partial protection. they have not yet gotten a major protection. they have not yet gotten a major foothold thank goodness. so the conventional constraints that are causing this illness at the moment are causing this illness at the moment. are causing this illness at the moment- are causing this illness at the moment. . , , moment. i m slightly puzzled by the american approach moment. i m slightly puzzled by the american approach to moment. i m slightly puzzled by the american app
Tonight at ten: a metropolitan police officer admits kidnapping and raping sarah everard, who disappeared in march of this year. she was 33 and was last seen walking home in south london her body was discovered in kent six days later. pc wayne couzens, who s 48, pleaded guilty to kidnap and rape, and he s also accepted responsibility for sarah s death. we ll have the latest from the old bailey, where the case is being heard. also tonight. all of greater manchester and parts of lancashire will get extra support to tackle the delta variant, also known as the indian variant, of coronavirus. i want to encourage everyone in manchester and lancashire to get the tests on offer. we know that this approach can work. the uk government s foreign travel policy
Tonight at ten: a metropolitan police officer admits kidnapping and raping sarah everard, who disappeared in march of this year. she was 33 and was last seen walking home in south london her body was discovered in kent six days later. pc wayne couzens, who s a8, pleaded guilty to kidnap and rape, and he s also accepted responsibility for sarah s death. we ll have the latest from the old bailey, where the case is being heard. also tonight. all of greater manchester and parts of lancashire will get extra support to tackle the delta variant, also known as the indian variant, of coronavirus. i want to encourage everyone in manchester and lancashire to get the tests on offer. we know that this approach can work. the uk government s foreign travel policy