Covid-19: More Pfizer doses ordered and Spain welcomes tourists
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1. More Pfizer doses on order
The UK has ordered a further 60 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, to be used for booster jabs in the autumn, the health secretary has announced. It brings the total number of Pfizer vaccines ordered to 100 million. The expectation is the most vulnerable groups will be offered another jab before next winter. Speaking at a Downing Street coronavirus briefing, Matt Hancock also said that more and more people are getting protection and now seven in 10 adults have protective Covid antibodies . It comes after a study showed a single dose of a coronavirus vaccine can reduce household transmission of the virus by up to half.
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image captionProtestors gathered outside Parliament during the debate
The House of Commons has declared for the first time that genocide is taking place against Uyghurs and others in north-west China.
More than a million people are estimated to have been detained at camps in the region of Xinjiang
The motion approved by MPs does not compel the UK to take action, but is a sign of growing discontent towards the Chinese government in Parliament.
Tory Sir Iain Duncan Smith heralded the vote as a historic moment .
He said it brought the UK Parliament in line with Holland, Canada and the United States.
Top Tory blasts Boris Johnson’s failure to hit back at China’s attacks on MPs
Updated: 14 Apr 2021, 10:37
A TOP Tory has unleashed a blistering attack on Boris Johnson’s failure to hit back at Communist China’s attacks on British MPs.
Tom Tugendhat – one of five politicians slapped with sanctions by Beijing for speaking out about genocide – slammed ministers for not taking the threat “seriously enough”.
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Tory politician Tom Tugendhat has blasted Boris Johnson for not hitting back at Communist China’s attacks on MPsCredit: AFP
In a blistering attack, he said Parliament’s online security is weaker than Gmail, and begged Downing Street to finally wake up to the threat posed by the Red Dragon.