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
now on bbc news, tuesday in parliament hello there, and welcome to tuesday in parliament. on this programme, the health secretary comes under fire for his handling of covid contracts. will he commit to recovering every penny piece of taxpayers money from those companies who provided us with duff ppe? of course where a contract isn t delivered against, we do not intend to pay taxpayers money. more trouble for the government in the lords over its trade bill and striking deals with countries which commit genocide. we ve failed - to predict genocide, we ve failed - to prevent genocide, we ve failed to protect victims of genocide and we ve failed to prosecute perpetrators of genocide. - the genocide amendment. is a modest attempt to begin to address some| of those failings. and scotland s first minister unveils her plan for easing lockdown, but unlike borisjohnson, only sets goals for two months ahead. i know that people across the country are anxious for as much clarity as po
of covid 19 in the capital. we ll have all the latest developments on the virus here in the uk and around the world and you can get in touch by tweeting me @reetacbbc or using the hashtag hello and welcome to bbc news. bbc your questions. covid 19 vaccinations are being given to patients at some gp surgeries he was hugely influential in a in england from today as part of the next stage of the roll out generation of novelists, notjust of the programme. spy gp practices in more generation of novelists, notjust spy novels, just the way that he than 100 locations wrote. he created a kind of world will receive their first deliveries of the vaccine later today, which sometimes takes the place of with another 100 to 200 over the real world, it s so vivid. the course of this week. and coming up this hour, some will start giving tributes paid to the the cold war the vaccinations to patients spy novelist, john le carre, from today, with people over 80 who has died at the age of 89. a