the contaminated blood scandal hears how dozens of pupils at a school for disabled children died after being given infected blood products to treat them for haemophilia. doctors and nhs trusts have warned ministers that they need to start planning now if they want to roll out a covid vaccine booster programme in the autumn. scotland midfielder billy gilmour tests positive for covid and will miss the euro 2020 match with croatia tomorrow as you heard earlier, more than a million people in england booked covid jabs on friday and saturday, after the nhs opened its vaccination programme to all adults. in december, 91 year old margaret keenan became the first person in the world to receive a vaccine outside clinical trials. she s urged others to get a jab, and is still friends with the nurse who administered hers. they ve both been talking to the bbc s dan walker.
happened at the school itself, a lot of the treatment was taking place at the haemophilia centre on the site, which was run by the nhs, not the school staff. so we won t hear from any of the clinicians involved, we learned today, because all have now lost their lives, they are dead. qm. lost their lives, they are dead. 0k, jim. thank lost their lives, they are dead. 0k, jim. thank you. lost their lives, they are dead. 0k, jim, thank you, our lost their lives, they are dead. 0k, jim, thank you, our correspondents jim, thank you, our correspondents jim reed there. doctors and nhs trusts have warned ministers that they need to start planning now if they want to roll out a covid vaccine booster programme in the autumn. they want to know whether the vaccines need to be tweaked because of new covid variants and whether to combine them with flu jabs. the health secretary, matt hancock, has said that plans will be set out in the next few weeks. dominic hughes reports. more than a million
easterly breeze making it feel cooler and still somehow break the rain this evening and tonight becoming compliant to southeast england by the end of the night. elsewhere, dried becoming dry, clear spells and temperatures dipping away back to scotland in the highlands let s make it close to freezing for a touch of frost. let sunshine to start the day. for many of us it will be dried with any spells and light rain and a slowly clearing from southeast england as a brightens up at the cloud increasing across northwest scotland and into northern ireland and we will see operates a rain moving in here is the day goes on. goodbye. hello, this is bbc news. i m reeta chakrabarti. the headlines: the public inquiry into the contaminated blood scandal hears how dozens of pupils at a school for disabled children died after being given infected blood products to treat them for haemophilia. ministers are warned that they need to start planning now if they want to roll out a covid vaccine booster prog
are having this, he said, and you had it. we just went into a are having this, he said, and you had it. wejust went into a room are having this, he said, and you had it. we just went into a room and there was no can we, so that is gary webster. we will be back with him a little bit later on as he continues to give evidence at the infected blood enquiry. hello this is bbc news with me, ben brown. a look at our latest news headlines. a public inquiry into the contaminated blood scandal hears how dozens of pupils at a school for disabled children died after being given infected blood products to treat them for haemophilia. went round the room and said who s positive? you have, you haven t, you have, you haven t, you have. and it was difficult, and, um. ..i was back in science by ten to two. doctors and nhs trusts have warned ministers that they need to start planning now if they want to roll out a covid vaccine booster programme in the autumn.
on. there is particular anger amongst campaigners that other countries who were affected by this as well with these blood products have paid out compensation. canada and ireland for example. whereas the uk government, this was pre devolution, the uk covenant has not really accept any liability as of now. uk government bond ministers have said that depending on the outcome of the enquiry, compensation, if it is recommended, will be paid. compensation, if it is recommended, will be paid- the government is promising to give details in the next few weeks of a coronavirus vaccine booster programme for the autumn after senior doctors said planning should be sped up. speaking on a visit to hertfordshire, the prime minister also says it s very important we look at the opportunities for releasing people early from isolation if they ve had two vaccines. but mrjohnson is playing down suggestions it could be used to change foreign travel quarantine rules. here s our medical editor, fergus wa