![]() ![]() When you've made your choice, hit Save Changes button at the bottom. There are other newsletters available if you want them as well. Once you're there, put your email address where it says at the top, then tick the Birmingham Daily News Updates box. It is delivered free of charge direct to your email inbox seven days a week, giving you all the news you need from across the region at your fingertips.įirst just click on this link to our newsletter sign-up centre. It's a free and easy way to follow up-to-date developments on the lockdown restrictions, Government guidelines, shop and restaurant reopenings, track and trace initiatives, development of a vaccine and official details of the number of coronavirus deaths. Prof Finn, who sits on the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, warned that the new vaccine data does not guarantee that the UK will proceed with a planned further easing of coronavirus restrictions on June 21. He added: "I think we can be confident that that immunity will still to some extent persist even if the virus evolves."Ī study has found that the Pfizer vaccine is 88 per cent effective against symptomatic disease from the Indian variant two weeks after the second dose and that the AstraZeneca jab is 60 per cent effective. The focus at this point should be on getting successive age groups who are called for immunisation to get the jab "so that we can gradually eliminate the proportion of the population who are still susceptible", Prof Finn said. Gogglebox stars' change of heart on Matt Hancock - and it's disturbing viewers.Joy as no Covid patients are in intensive care across city's hospitals for first time. ![]() ![]() He added: "We are getting cautiously optimistic that it is not a massive rise but it will take a little bit longer to be more confident around that." Read More Related Articles Prof Finn told BBC Breakfast that scientists are "confident to some extent that it is more transmissible but uncertain about exactly how much". Professor Adam Finn, of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, says the new, more transmissible Indian variant has put the nation in "a slightly worse situation than we were in before but not a disaster." She added: "The cases of the B1617.2 variant are rising, they have risen very steeply and much of the media have reported a 160 per cent rise in cases over the week period but they seem to be slightly levelling at the moment. "It's really important that people continue to do hands, face, space and work from home, have their jabs and go for tests as well."ĭr Jenny Harries has urged people to be cautious in order for the June 21 end of lockdown to go ahead (Image: PA) "It's looking good if people are continuing to observe all of the safety signals, so we should not stop doing what we're doing, particularly in areas where we have that variant of concern, the B1617.2, in the north-west and around London. She told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show: "We all need to be very cautious and I think we all don't want to go back to the sort of lockdowns that we've had, it doesn't matter whether you're on SAGE or out in the public, none of us want to return to that sort of restriction. With the spread of the new Indian variant- and Germany closing its borders to Britain after branding us a Covid hotspot - the final step of the roadmap out of the current set of restrictions has begun to look less certain and more precarious.ĭr Jenny Harries, former Deputy Chief Medical Officer for England and now the chief executive of the newly-formed UK Health Security Agency, has urged people to be careful and still stick to all the rules. A UK health boss says people now need to be cautious - or risk another lockdown.
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