almost one in five adults have now had a second dose. and on first jabs, we ve now vaccinated 33 million people, including 60% of the 45-49 million people, including 60% of the 45 49 year olds. and we know that this vaccination programme is making a big difference. we know that it is helping to reduce suffering and save lives. potentially on a very big scale. but we don t yet know the full extent of the protection that we re building up, the exact strength of our defences. and as we look at what is happening in other countries with cases now at record numbers around the world, we cannot delude ourselves that covid has gone away. i see nothing in the data now that makes me think we are going to have to deviate in any way from the road map, cautious but irreversible, that we have set out. but the majority of scientific opinion in this country is still firmly of the view that there will be another wave of covid at some stage this year. and so we must as far as possible learn to
biggests mysteries. hello, i m rajini vaidyanathan, welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories, and checking out with the un warning that gaza faces famine and that children are dying from hunger, efforts are ramping up to get more aid into the besieged strip, but alongside that, tragic reports coming in that five people have been killed by an air drop of aid after the parachute failed to open. and in the past few hours, a potential breakthrough, the uk says it will join potential breakthrough, the uk says it willjoin the us and other allies to create a maritime corridor to deliver essential it s a gaza. a joint statement from the uk and the us and the eu and cyprus and the uae said this it went on to say. the plan as we know it is to establish a shipping route which would get aid from cyprus to gaza by c, working with the un to facilitate and co ordinate and monitor and verify the flow of aid. initial shipments would arrive via cyprus, where is really securit