direct to your inboxPeople may need coronavirus vaccine 'every six months', Matt Hancock has suggested.The Health Secretary was answering questions from MPs on the Health and Social Care Committee. His comments come on the day GP surgeries in England began administering the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine.
Matt Hancock blasts people who fled London ahead of Tier 4 as 'totally irresponsible'
20.12.2020 - 13:40 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
direct to your inboxMatt Hancock has blasted the thousands of people who fled London before Tier 4 restrictions came into force at midnight.Train stations across the capital were packed with those trying to make a last minute escape to other parts of the country before Christmas.Photographs and videos show packed platforms and waiting areas, with many services sold out.The Health Secretary described the scenes as "totally irresponsible behaviour".Mr Hancock, told Sky's Sophy Ridge on Sunday:
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04.01.2021 / 20:20
Matt Hancock scolded by ICU nurse who asked how 'he can look NHS staff in the face'
Matt Hancock was left looking sheepish on breakfast television after being grilled by an ICU nurse who demanded to know how he could "look NHS staff in the face." The Health Secretary appeared on Good Morning Britain today to address whether there would be a national lockdown, the confusion regarding schools and on ICU wards struggling over understaffing.
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04.01.2021 / 17:19
Awkward moment Matt Hancock is confronted by ‘insulted’ ICU care nurse on Good Morning Britain
direct to your inboxHealth Secretary Matt Hancock has admitted the ‘huge pressures’ that the NHS is facing in parts of the country after being confronted by an intensive care nurse on GMB this morning.Host Susanna Reid introduced ICU nurse Dave Carr, who told the ITV morning show that hospitals were "beyond breaking point" amid the coronavirus crisis."It's absolutely harrowing, it's breaking us," he said, adding: "It's already worse than it was in the first wave."The worry is extreme.""How can
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04.01.2021 / 11:59
Health Secretary Matt Hancock does not rule out national lockdown
coronavirus.He told Sky News: “We don’t rule anything out, and we’ve shown repeatedly that we will look at the public health advice and we will take the public health advice in terms of what is needed to control the spread of the disease.“This new variant is much easier to catch, it is much more transmissible, and we’re now seeing the effect of that in lots of different parts of the country, unfortunately.“And it means that whereas the old Tier 3 was able to contain the old variant, that is
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30.12.2020 / 12:49
What time is Matt Hancock making the tier announcement today?
direct to your inboxThe whole of England is bracing for another another announcement on the coronavirus tier announcement today. Each individual county area will find out if their current Covid-19 restrictions will be eased or tightened when Health Secretary Matt Hancock addresses the commons.
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23.12.2020 / 17:17
Sacha Lord has SO much sass for Matt Hancock in letter from his lawyers over 'gagging clause'
claimed this week that the government had tried to 'gag' him over his legal challenge to hospitality restrictions. And his speaking out hasn't gone down at all well with Whitehall's top brass, it seems.
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23.12.2020 / 17:16
When is Matt Hancock speaking in Downing Street press conference today?
coronavirus.He will let people know what measures are in place to contain the spread of the new variant, amid speculation further new areas could face more restrictions within days.The new variant is believed to be between 50 per cent to 70 per cent more transmissible than other strains of the virus, but is not thought to be any more or any less deadly. It comes as plans were rumoured to be in the offing to move large swathes of England into Tier 4 from as early as Saturday on Boxing Day.
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17.12.2020 / 16:40
Everything Matt Hancock said about Greater Manchester staying in Tier 3 as he called on people to 'pull together'
direct to your inboxGreater Manchester will remain in the highest level of coronavirus restrictions, the Health Secretary Matt Hancock announced today.During a statement in the House of Commons, Mr Hancock released the details of the latest government review of the tier system in England.There had been hopes that Greater Manchester - or some boroughs - would be moved down to Tier 2, due to a fall in infection rates.But the Health Secretary said many areas in Tier 3 were not 'quite there,' as he