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To hear what you have to say digital b.b.c. Sound last week. Is b.b.c. Radio 5 Live. B.b.c. News at 3 o clock this is Lisa Costello clinical trials have shown that an experimental coated 19 vaccine developed by the American firm Pfizer and the German manufacturer of biotech is more than 90 percent effective in preventing Kovac 19 the study is still continuing but the vaccine has been tested on 43 and a half 1000 people in 6 countries and no safety concerns have been raised so far because Dalton is phasers Chief Scientific Officer and it s such a great day for science and humanity if there are more steps that needs to happen but we feel that we are going to cause one of the biggest medical advances for society and mankind in the 100 years that have passed here Downing Street has described the results as promising but warned to that there were no guarantees the u.k. Has signed up for 40000000 doses of the vaccine 10000000 of which could be available by the end of the Year Professor John ....
More on the ports of lock down and Scottish prison next to these smart savvy. Beasts is the b.b.c. Radio 5 Live b.b.c. News at 9 o clock this is Antony virtually Boris Johnson is considering bringing in a month long national lockdown for England scientists of one that unless further restrictions are introduced they could be far more coronavirus deaths in the u.k. Than during the 1st wave and you stay at home order could be announced on Monday but schools colleges and universities would stay open Cullom sample is a professor of outbreak infection and a member of the government s sage advisory committee for the naysayers that don t believe in a 2nd wave there is a 2nd wave and unlike the 1st wave where we had a national lockdown which protected huge swathes the society this outbreak is no running riot across all age groups labor has accused the government of dithering on whether to bring in a circuit breaker locked out it said introducing the measures over the half term holiday which is ....
Blake is where the evening Jonathan talk us through what s going to have to close what can stay open that kind of thing non-essential retail will be closing hospitality businesses will be forced to close apart from those offering take away so bars pubs restaurants also has our lawns beauty salons tatto parlors etc will also be forced to close staying open though will be schools colleges and universities so slightly different to the lockdown across England earlier in the year people were told to stay at home and only allowed to leave for exercise medical reasons or shopping for food or other says essential supplies they ll be no shielding arrangements but those deemed clinically vulnerable and over 70 will be asked to observe the rules particularly closely weddings will not be allowed to go ahead and funerals will continue but with limited numbers and you won t be allowed to mix with anyone from another household indoors or in a private garden but in a public place individuals can meet ....
Digital. Radio 5 Live b.b.c. News May Day This is Mike down. Says there s no need for a civil war in the Labor Party over the suspension of the former leader Jeremy Corbyn the Unite union says the move taken Juta his response to a report on anti semitism while he was in charge risks splitting the party says he hopes to draw a line under the issue and move on the foreign secretary Dominic Rob says the current leader also has questions to answer I think it is. Why he s taken this action when it was less than a year ago he was asking the British people and calling on them to make sure we called him prime minister it feels like this isn t the point of principle that he s acted on but it s a question of political expediency ministers have been defending regional lockdown measures insisting the tier system is the best way to bring down rising coronavirus cases Nottinghamshire entered the Tier 3 level of midnight in West Yorkshire will follow Monday it means around 11000000 people will be li ....
Digital. Mafi. This is b.b.c. Radio 5 Live the b.b.c. News at midnight this is Jason Carroll Nottinghamshire is the latest area of England to move into the highest coronavirus alert level from Friday people won t be able to buy alcohol in shops after 9 pm but gyms and leisure centers will remain open local leaders say the measures are necessary to hold a rapid spread of the infection but some of them complain that the government was very slow to give them details the leader of Ashfield district council Jason s address me said he only learned what was happening this morning the breach it was no small thing about what the Repos they wanted it to cover it up but not tonight which was lunacy we managed to get them to put it back to a minibus but not on Thursday so that we could communicate but we know it will be 3 plus long tattoo parlors so that places they will be asked to close at midnight tomorrow France will go into a 2nd national lockdown until at least the end of next month non-ess ....