because of covid cases. australia take a 2 0 lead over england in the ashes, after completing a 275 run victory in the second test in adelaide let s return now to the growing pressure on the government to announce whether it will be extending covid restrictions to try to stem the spread of the omicron variant. earlier, the deputy prime minister, dominic raab, said the government can t make hard, fast guarantees that there will not be a christmas lockdown. what we don t know is the severity of it. none of the scientist can tell us that definitively. i have heard that from chris whitty and patrick balanced themselves. we are relying on real time data that comes in from the nhs, hospitals and the like. that is the thing that we still have uncertainty around. the most important thing we are doing right now is boosting the vaccine roll out. the third dose, 53% of adults have now had it. on saturday,
that was the message from chris whitty last week, and it was really very clear. you know, you need to make the priorities. and most people are pretty smart and pretty sensible about doing that. us pharmaceutical company moderna have said that a booster dose of its covid 19 vaccine appeared to be protective against the omicron variant in laboratory testing. their research shows that a 50 microgram booster dose which is standardly given in the uk increased neutralizing antibodies against the variant 37 fold. a higher, 100 microgram booster dose of the same vaccine drove antibody levels even higher. the company also says it plans to develop a vaccine specifically to protect against omicron, which it hopes to advance into a new covid drug designed to reduce the risk of vulnerable patients
particularly when you think i about how hard they are working. under those pressures of the week, they would sometimes have a drink. that is what you can see there. that was primarily after the work meetings of the day. there is a debate about whether rules were broken in that picture. for the government critics, and people looking on, the rules won t matter. fora people looking on, the rules won t matter. for a lot of people itjust doesn t look good. to have the defence coming forward that this was a work meeting, of course happening at a time when people were living under very tight restrictions, and working, in some cases, an incredibly challenging circumstances, it certainly will be seized upon by labour and others to add to the narrative that the rules were, the very least, least, not being scrupulously followed, at a time when many people were doing their best to do that. breaking news about the world economic forum meeting in davos, scheduled to be happening in january. we are
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