And with one day to go until the worlds most famous horse race returns, well meet the jockey whos preparing to take on the sports elite in the Grand National, hoping to become the first female winner, and her horses trainer is her mum. Roll trainer is her mum. Up, all the fun of the fair. Good roll up, all the fun of the fair. Good morning from Blackpool Pleasure Beach, where they are preparing to reopen on Monday Morning for their 125th season, and somehow ive got the job of testing the rides. Good morning, some Colder Weather on the cards once again of the next few days. Some snow showers across scotland today, Patchy Rain Further south, ill be here all morning with all your weather details. Good morning. Its friday the 9th of april. Our top story plans to reopen International Travel for Holiday Makers from england have been unveiled with a requirement to pay for coronavirus tests. The government has stopped short of saying if foreign trips can resume next month, but has outlined a s
Hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or Around The World im kasia madera. Ghana in west africa has become the first country to receive vaccines under a scheme that aims to reduce the divide between rich countries and poorer nations. A delivery of 600,000 doses of the astrazeneca vaccine arrived in accra. The covax scheme aims to deliver 2 billion doses globally by the end of the year. 0ur Science Editor David Shukman reports. Live coverage of a momentous delivery in ghana. The first coronavirus vaccines arriving as part of a massive global effort. A scheme known as covax that aims to reach 20 of people in the poorest countries with at least two billion doses, and this Consignment Isjust the start. The ambition to reach that first 20 and the two billion doses is to do so within this first year, so maybe within the next 12 months, lets say. But to go beyond that, i think the thinking is to achieve that as fast as possible. These first doses are of the Oxford Astrazeneca vaccine,
Ill be back tomorrow. Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. Maybe we shouldnt be surprised that the gulf is opening up between Covid Vaccination rates in the richest countries and in the poorest, but still, the numbers are shocking. While the uk has given 27 of its population the first dose, many nations have yet to inject a single arm, and this Vaccine Inequality is rising fast. My guest today is seth berkley, head of gavi, the Global Vaccine Alliance and the key driver of the effort to ensure the whole world gets covid protection. It is a great ambition is it achievable . Seth berkley in geneva, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you for having me. Its a pleasure to have you. Im going to begin, if i may, with some words from the World Health Organization chief, doctortedros. He said recently that the Me First Approach To Vaccine Procurement that he sees Around The World represent the world represents a catastrophic moral failure. The price of this failure, he says will be paid with lives a
Making the uks programme among the most successful in the world. But there is a glaring weakness in the distribution, because of the difficulty in reaching some of the most Vulnerable People in deprived communities and among some ethnic minorities. 0ur Health Editor hugh pym has been to east london, where some boroughs have the lowest take up rate in the uk. A Vaccination Hub in the east london borough of newham. The area has one of the lowest proportions of its population in england for take up of the vaccine. So, hows it going today . 0ne local gp, dr farzana hussain, with local colleagues, is heading a drive to get to those in priority groups who havent had the jab, including personal phone calls to patients. Newhams population is more than 70 bame, over 200 languages spoken. And dr hussain explains the challenges getting the message across. The fact that we have got many, many communities, it is making the issue a bit more complex. I think people have a few more questions and a few