direct to your inbox The government could ease coronavirus restrictions once most vulnerable people have received a vaccine, it has been suggested.
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coronavirus restrictions from next Wednesday, December 2.Health Secretary Matt Hancock announced which areas would be placed in which tiers on Thursday.He said the tiers will be reviewed in a fortnight and kept "regularly under review after that".Mr Hancock also said that the measures are necessary given the "scale of the threat" faced by the UK.Lancashire was placed into Tier 3 after national and local government wrangling when the system was first introduced in October.The new system, however,
.direct to your inbox The government could ease coronavirus restrictions once most vulnerable people have received a vaccine, it has been suggested.
direct to your inboxMatt Hancock has predicted that people will be allowed to stop wearing face masks and coverings next year. The health secretary said he didn't 'imagine' people would be wearing masks as they do now by the end of 2021 - on the day the first coronavirus vaccine begins to be rolled out across the UK.
direct to your inbox Matt Hancock was reduced to tears during an appearance on Good Morning Britain on Tuesday. The Health Secretary was on the ITV news programme the morning the first coronavirus vaccinations were delivered in the UK.
coronavirus lockdown ends.
COVID-19 vaccine which has been developed by the University of Oxford and manufacturer AstraZeneca.The trial revealed that while the vaccine is 70 percent effective against coronavirus, it can increase to 90 percent when one half dose is given and followed by a full dose at least one month later.The UK has placed orders for 100 million doses of the vaccine, which is enough to vaccinate most of the population, if the jab receives regulatory approval.The government has also ordered 40m doses of a
coronavirus vaccine will be rolled out if one is approved by the UK's medicines regulator.
coronavirus pandemic. And now the Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, has told a Downing Street press conference that the coronavirus vaccine roll out in the UK could start within two weeks.The earliest date could be December 1, he announced.He said it is critical we have been buying the first vaccines available.