And the careers being stopped before theyve even begun the number of apprentices made redundant during the pandemic was two thirds higher than in 2019. Hello and welcome to bbc news, im annita mcveigh. We begin today with further promising news this morning about a third vaccine. The oxford Coronavirus Vaccine shows a strong immune response in adults in their 60s and 70s, raising hopes that it can protect age groups most at risk of illness from the virus. Researchers say the phase two findings, based on 560 healthy adult volunteers, are encouraging. The outcome of trials into whether the vaccine actually stops people developing covid 19 in larger, phase three trials is expected in the coming weeks. The uk has already ordered 100 million doses of the oxford vaccine, a0 million doses of the Pfizer Biontech vaccine and five million of the moderna vaccine. If successful, the oxford vaccine is expected to be easier to manufacture on a worldwide scale than the other two, and oxford and astra
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