denmark in amsterdam. good evening. matt hancock has resigned as health secretary after he breached social distancing guidance by kissing a colleague. in a letter to the prime minister he says the government owes it to people who have sacrificed so much in this pandemic to be honest when we have let them down . he reiterated his apology for breaking the guidance . his resignation comes after pictures emerged of him with gina coladangelo, reportedly taken on 6 may. mr hancock released a short resignation statement via twitter this is what he had to say. i have been to see the prime minister to resign as secretary of state for health and i understand the enormous sacrifices that everybody in this country has made, that you have made, and those of us who make these rules have got to stick by them and that s why i have got to resign. i want to thank people for their incredible sacrifices and what they have done. everybody working in the nhs, across social care, everyone invol
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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 world s 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 we