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
But when and who will profit onto the points we ask vaccine against coded 19. And demick under control or thanks very much for joining us and my guests here in the studio in the burlington are professor Susanna Schreiber from the german Ethics Council, who says, in theory, we know how best to distribute limited supplies of the vaccine. The real challenge is putting these ideas into practice. Also with us is yunior fischer, former doctor now a journalist and author. She believes the vaccine is a ray of hope, but tough times she says, still lie ahead for all of us and a very warm welcome to try to be as quote, professor for Public Health and happy to be ology of Berlin Charity hospital. Who argues that the news of an effective vaccine is good, but it shouldnt distract from the many problems posed by the pandemic. Thank you all 3 for being here. I would like to begin with you. Theres so much to talk about. Some people are talking about a shimmer of hope, light, the end of the tunnel. I sa
Seeing pandemic under control. Well, thanks very much for joining us and my guests here in the studio in the bird lane are professor Susanna Schreiber from the German Ethics Council, who says, in theory, we know how best to distribute limited supplies of the vaccine. The real challenge is putting these ideas into practice. Also with us is yunior fischer, a former doctor. Now a journalist and author, she believes the vaccine is a ray of hope, but tough times she says, still lie ahead for all of us and a very warm welcome to her to be a score professor for Public Health and jane berlin, charity hospital. Who argues that the news of an effective vaccine is good, but it should be destroyed from the many problems posed by the pandemic. Thank you all 3 for being here. I would like to begin with you. Theres so much to talk about. Some people are talking about a shimmer of hope, others about light at the end of the tunnel i saw though one commentator saying, we find ourselves in the midst of a
Because the s p 500 is down a little bit more than it had been , down poured 4 . Earlier it had been down. 1 . Perhaps a reason for caution overall to think maybe the difficulties around the nearterm may continue to move ahead. If we look at havens on the week, we have the yen climate against the dollar and bonds higher. Some reason for caution, but small moves. David one piece of news overnight. Late yesterday we heard Steven Mnuchin had sent a letter to his friend jay powell saying please give us back the money we gave you for the emergency Lending Programs. He probably did not like jay powell do not like that much. Did the markets like that . Abigail we have not seen much of reaction. Bonds are lower which means yields are higher. What is interesting is we do have a reaction for the financials. The financials typically would climb on yields going higher, but they are not. There i be uncertainty around this bat and what it means. The lifeblood of this rally coming out of the march lo
The current drop in Vaccination Committee on health, education, labor and pensions will please come to order. I would like to welcome everyone and go through some administrative matters that we do at the beginning after consulting with the attending physician, the sergeant at arms, cdc, health and Human Services, individuals are seated six feet apart. There is no room for the public to attend and the press is working as a pool and the hearing may be watched gaveltogavel online. Both of our witnesses, dr. Collins and Surgeon General adams are participating in person. Some are in person, some are participating by videoconference. The office of attending physician has advised that senators and witnesses may remove their masks to talk in the microphone since our chairs are six feet apart or more. That is why my mask is off and i am more than six feet apart and when i am in a hall or walking on the senate floor, i wear my mask. We are grateful to the rules committee the sergeant at arms, th