Self isolate. I find out if firms are ready to shake off restrictions. In The Garden of england, The Rose is in bloom. Justin rose, one of three English Players, within touching distance of the lead at the open, alongside Danny Willet and Tommy Fleetwood as they head into the second day at Royal St georges. Good morning. Im on Brighton Beach. A gorgeous start to the day ahead of what is set to be a hot and sunny few days ahead. The forecast coming up few days ahead. The forecast coming up shortly. Its friday, the 16thjuly. Our top story. At least 60 People have died and thousands of others have been forced from their homes by the worst flooding in living memory in west germany. Belgium and the netherlands has also experienced unusually Heavy Rainfall which caused rivers burst their banks, flooding nearby communities and causing several houses to collapse. The german chancellor Angela Merkel described it as a catastrophe and said the full extent of the disaster would not be known for a
Care at nhs england, and on my right, Doctor Mary Ramsay, the head of immunisation at public Health England. Today i would like to bring you the latest on our Vaccination Programme and our work to get even more people protected from this deadly disease. We have come a long way since we gave the worlds first clinically organised vaccine just over six months ago, since that very special day we have now given a first dose to 82 of all adults in the united kingdom. Today i can confirm we have reached the milestone of three in five, all adults getting the protection of a second dose. Because we have been able to move at such a pace, any aduu able to move at such a pace, any adult in the uk can now book their first dose. In the two days after we opened our Booking System to anyone over the age of 18 there were six appointments being booked every second. And i have been absolutely thrilled to see videos of young people coming forward at some of our major Vaccination Events last weekend, and i
almost one in five adults have now had a second dose. and on first jabs, we ve now vaccinated 33 million people, including 60% of the 45-49 million people, including 60% of the 45 49 year olds. and we know that this vaccination programme is making a big difference. we know that it is helping to reduce suffering and save lives. potentially on a very big scale. but we don t yet know the full extent of the protection that we re building up, the exact strength of our defences. and as we look at what is happening in other countries with cases now at record numbers around the world, we cannot delude ourselves that covid has gone away. i see nothing in the data now that makes me think we are going to have to deviate in any way from the road map, cautious but irreversible, that we have set out. but the majority of scientific opinion in this country is still firmly of the view that there will be another wave of covid at some stage this year. and so we must as far as possible learn to