And Now Britain obviously is a high Incidence Area will be able to travel again without having to go into Quarantine. Good evening. The Labour Leader, Sir Keir Starmer has declared that labour is back after the party held on at the Batley And Spen By Election in west yorkshire. But their victory was narrow. Kim leadbeater, the sister of the murdered mpjo cox, held the seat with a majority of just 323 votes over the conservatives. Our political correspondent Alex Forsyth reports. It was no easy path to Todays Moment of celebration. But the cheers soon replaced doubt about labours chances, the relief obvious. A loss here would have left the Labour Leader vulnerable, but this victory, even narrow, will quieten the critics for now. My message is, when the Labour Party sticks to its core values, is rooted in its communities and pulls together, we can win, just as we won here. This is the start, labour is back. For many, though, the credit lies with the candidate, the sister of the murdered
Welcome to the lead, everyone. Im jake tapper. We begin with our Health Load and President Biden coming before the cameras this afternoon to real the nation to engage in a, quote, all of america sprint. The president wants to get 70 of u. S. Adults at least one Covid Vaccine shot by the Fourth Of July. That number, according to the cdc, currently stands at nearly 63 . I promised you wed marshall a wartime effort to defeAt This virus and thats just what were doing. The more people we get vaccinated, the more success were going to have in our fight against this virus. Now part of bidens new plan includes free Child Care for those getting vaccinated, extended hours at pharmacies, free rides to vaccination sites, and a national educational Push Touring throughout the south and midwest. So far just 12 of 50 states have met bidens goal, mostly on the east coast, but what is most important from a scientific perspective is the share of people, not just adults, who are fully vaccinated, and tha
extraordinary. they spanned generations. born in america, immigrated to america, but just like that, so many of them took their final breath alone in america. i know all too well, i know what it s like to not be there when it happens. i know what it s like when you are there holding their hands. there is a look in their eye and they slip away. the president tonight and to put it in perspective, he took office with fatalities having just crossed 400,000. nearly 100,000 lives have been lost since then. a quarter million in the last three months, 500,000 plus in about a year. no, there are a number of ways of expressing the awful figures, whether so many football stadiums, this many towns, this city or that ocho , these wars combined. it boils down to this, we all know someone who grieves or worse, someone who is gone. whatever scale the loss may be, whether close enough to touch or too large to grasp, it s clear by now we ve seen too much. more on this tonight along with conf
pressure on hospitals. there has been a slight increase in cases. public health england defends the astrazeneca vaccine after germany says it will not recommend giving it to the over 65s. the government insists there will be no interruption to the uk s vaccine supplies from astrazeneca, in a continuing row with the eu about a supply shortage. singing. and, how singing classes can help people cope with the breathlessness and fatigue that comes with long covid. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. on a visit to scotland, the prime minister has thanked nhs staff and emphasised the importance of the uk working together in tackling coronavirus. of the uk working together scotland s first minister nicola sturgeon has questioned whether it s right for borisjohnson to be travelling round the country in the middle of a pandemic. downing street says its a fundamental part of the pm s job to meet people on the front line. the trip comes amid growing calls for another scottish indepen
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