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For scotland as well. And what s next for emma? british tennis legends offer their advice to the teen queen, emma raducanu. Good afternoon. In the past few minutes, the four chief medical officers for the uk have recommended that all children aged 12 to 15 years old should be offered one dose of the pfizer covid vaccine. The decision comes after scientific advisers serving onjoint committee for vaccination and immunisation said the vaccine only offered a marginal health benefit for that age group and could not be recommended on health grounds alone. Well, ministers are now expected to back the new recommendation as part of the covid winter plan the prime minister will set out tomorrow. Let s discuss this further and get more detail. With me now is our health correspondent anna collinson. Take us through the details. The element up until now only 12 to 15 year olds with underlying health is year olds with underlying health conditions were allowed to have a covid i9 vaccine, and only con
2021 has, for many people, been a long and difficult year. a year of change and uncertainty. and worry about lives and livelihoods and jobs and prospects. and early hopes of a return to something more normal have been replaced by a realisation that covid will be around for much longer than we first thought. its impact on how we live and how we work has been far more significant than feared. our social lives, shopping habits and our travel plans all changed by this pandemic. and now, we are learning to live with this virus, but learning to live with its consequences will be harder the lostjobs and the rising prices, and a big covid bill still to pay. getting back to where we were will take time but the question is, just how long will it take? since the pandemic began last year, the whole uk. the start of 2021 was not a happy new year. but we now have a new variant of the virus. we must therefore go into a national lockdown which is tough enough to contain this variant. that