The Covid Vaccination Programme Shifts up a gear with millions more people qualifying for the jab people in england aged 70 and over will begin receiving offers of a Coronavirus Vaccine this week. We are ramping up the Vaccination Programme every week, theres more Vaccines Available this week and its important we get through those top Priority Groups as quickly as possible, and the most effective way of doing that is to keep the focus on the over 80 year olds, but then start to vaccinate the over 70 year olds as well. With those listed as clinically extremely vulnerable also qualifying well be giving more details. Also this lunchtime. New travel restrictions International Passengers must now test negative for coronavirus if travelling to the uk under pressure borisjohnson is urged to give millions of families a helping hand and extend benefit
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Hello this is bbc news. The headlines. Millions more people will qualify for the Coronavirus Vaccine this week people in england aged 70 and over will start receiving invitations within days. On a visit to a company that manufactures vaccines, the Prime Minister said the Vaccination Programme is on track, which is why the rollout is being expanded. We are getting it out as fast as we can. Four million done so far. Weve now, i think, have done more than half of the over 80s, almost half of the people in care homes. New travel restrictions International Passengers must now test negative for coronavirus if travelling to the uk
and self isolate for ten days. The price of this failure will be paid with lives and livelihoods in the worlds poorest countries. And just to recap on that with the travel situation, the restrictions coming into force. International passengers must now test negative for coronavirus virus ever travelling to the uk, and self isolate for ten days. And coming up, we are
The tragic story of barbara one of many disabled Covid Patients to be transferred to hospital, where she had to face death without family or friends. The collapse in oil prices at one point producers were paying others to take barrels off them. But will it mean cheaper petrol at the pumps . And. Portraits of nhs heroes. The artists who decided to celebrate the work of Health Care Workers by painting them. Marking the queens 94th birthday. The royal family share footage of her majesty as a young child. Good afternoon. The figures are already out of date but theyre no less shocking for that. In the week up to easter, deaths in england and wales hit a 20 year high, with 8,000 more people dying than would be regarded as normal at this time of year. And care homes are at the sharp end of these figures from the office for National Statistics with more than 1,000 covid related deaths. So lots of tough questions for the government as parliament gets back to Business Today with many still about
It comes ahead of an announcement next sunday which will set out its next steps. The phone app to track and trace people with covid 19 will be piloted this week on the isle of wight, and rolled out nationally across the uk later this month. Russia reports a record one day rise in Coronavirus Infections, with more than 10,000 people testing positive. Is there a Coronavirus Crisis in iraq . 100 have died, but few believe the official figures. The race to find a treatment a trial for a promising new drug to treat coronavirus is under way in southampton. Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are former conservative adviser, mo hussein and the Political Writer and academic, maya goodfellow, the and academic, maya goodfellow, front pages. We guardian. The front pages. We start with the guardian. Ministers talking about using Health Passports for people to return to work. The i focuses on d raft return to work. The i focuses on Draft