MANILA, Philippines Philippine officials have allowed the reopening of gyms, skating rinks, racket courts and museums in metropolitan Manila and adjacent provinces as a coronavirus surge continues to ease.
UK mulls scrapping quarantine for COVID contacts with daily testing
Xinhua
03 May 2021, 02:18 GMT+10
LONDON, May 2 (Xinhua) Daily lateral flow tests could be used as a way to prevent home-isolation for those who have been in contact with someone tested positive for coronavirus, British media reported Sunday. Currently, these people are required to quarantine at home for 10 days but the measure could be scrapped if a trial in England, which gives daily lateral flow tests to as many as 40,000 people, is successful, Sky News reported. This new pilot could help shift the dial in our favour by offering a viable alternative to self-isolation for people who are contacts of positive COVID-19 cases, and one that would allow people to carry on going to work and living their lives, said British Health Secretary Matt Hancock.
Even if you are one of the small number of people who get infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus after being vaccinated, the chances of you infecting someone else are reduced significantly. AFP
One dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech or AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccines reduces the chances of someone infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes Covid-19 from spreading it to other members of their household by almost half, according to a English study published on April 28 (2021).
The Public Health England (PHE) research found that those who became infected three weeks after receiving their first jab were between 38% and 49% less likely to pass the virus on to their household contacts than those who were unvaccinated.
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British government says no surplus vaccine doses for India, media reports
Xinhua
29 Apr 2021, 13:55 GMT+10
NEW DELHI, April 29 (Xinhua) Britain has no surplus of COVID-19 vaccines to give to India as it faces a deadly wave of COVID-19, Reuters reported Thursday quoting British Health Secretary Matt Hancock. Asked whether the government can release any doses to support India at a press conference, Hancock said we don t have any excess doses of vaccine in the UK at the moment. Earlier this week, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson s spokesperson was quoted by The Times of India as saying that right now we are moving through the UK prioritization list and don t have surplus doses to share with countries in need such as India.