To be A crItIcAl worker . Are you not exempt And thInk thAt you should be . Let me know thIs mornIng. Tweet me vIcderbyshIre or by emAIlIng me on vIctorIA bbc. Co. Uk. A new Study Suggests thAt dAIly lAterAl Flow TestIng for pupIls could be equAlly As effectIve As ClosIng ClAss bubbles to control trAnsmIssIon In schools. CAlls to creAte A RIng Of Steel Around AustrAlIAs bIggest cIty, sydney, As cAses of the vIrus remAIn hIgh despIte four weeks In lockdown. CAmpAIgners cAll for new rules on E Scooters After A teenAger wAs kIlled on one And A toddler wAs serIously Injured. Hello And welcome If youre wAtchIng In the uk or Around the world. The 2020 tokyo olympIc gAmes wIll offIcIAlly stArt todAy A yeAr lAter thAn expected. 11,000 Athletes from over 200 countrIes wIll compete over the next few weeks, but spectAtors hAve been bAnned from Almost All events, As jApAn deAls wIth Its hIghest surge In CoronAvIrus InfectIons for sIx months. Lets go now to Lucy HockIngs In Tokyo. HI, lucy. HI, vI
Need to Isolate If pInged by the CovId App, as long as they test negatIve. DaIly testIng for pupIls Is just as effectIve at controllIng covId In schools as Self IsolatIon, accordIng to new research. A new study says an eIght Week Gap between the fIrst and second doses of the PfIzer VaccIne Is most effectIve for BuIldIng ImmunIty agaInst covId. And the famIly of a brItIsh woman who went mIssIng from her BoyfrIends Yacht In the carIbbean, appeal for hIm to help polIce fInd out what happened on the nIght she dIsappeared. Hello. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. It Is one year late and has been beset by problems, but the olympIcs are fInally formally startIng In toyko. The OpenIng Ceremony Injapan s NatIonal StadIum Is under way. The three and a half hours long spectacle has been descrIbed as sombre, reflectIng the mood of a natIon whIch Is havIng to host the bIggest SportIng Event In The World durIng a pandemIc. Just 22 of Team Gb s 375 strong squad joIned a much reduced athletes parade. So
At Ellesmere Port. And at 2. 45pm, well be going across the uk to find out more about the stories affecting you from ourjournalists up and down the country. Stay with us for that. Hello and welcome if you have just joined us. The Health Secretary Sajid Javid has announced that people, whove had both doses of a Covid Vaccine, will no longer have to self isolate if they come into contact with a positive case of the virus. The change which will come into force on 16th August, and will also apply to people under the age of 18 who are currently not eligible for vaccination. And in the last half hour, the Education Secretary Gavin williamson has announced an end to the bubble system in English Schools with no more Self Isolation for pupils who come into contact with positive cases. Heres what Mr Williamson had to say. Though keeping children inconsistent groups was essential to control the spread of the virus when our population was less vaccinated, we recognise that the system of bubbles a