UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock said that he believes new treatments and vaccines will turn the novel coronavirus into a disease which "we can live with like we do flu".Hancock, speaking to the Daily Telegraph newspaper on Saturday, .
People eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine among the over-70 most at-risk groups who haven’t yet had their jab are being urged by the National Health Service (NHS) to come forward this weekend in a renewed drive as the UK government nears its target of vaccinating the top priority groups by Monday.
The U.S. new cases 7-day rolling average are 23.9 % LOWER than the 7-day rolling average one week ago. U.S. hospitalizations due to COVID-19 are now 12.6 %
LOWER than the rolling average one week ago. U.S. deaths due to coronavirus are now 3.7 %
LOWER than the rolling average one week ago. Today s posts include:
U.S. Coronavirus New Cases are 94,704
U.S. Coronavirus hospitalizations are at 76,979
U.S. Coronavirus deaths are 3,364 [are the new variants more deadly or are vaccinations increasing deaths - as deaths are no longer correlating with new cases or hospitalizations?>U.S. Coronavirus immunizations have been administered to 13.4 % of the population
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image captionMark Drakeford said they were talking to the Welsh tourist industry about what might be possible around the Easter period Cautious talks about Wales tourist industry reopening in time for Easter have started, the first minister said.
But Mark Drakeford said the sector - which supports 10% of the Welsh workforce or 120,000 jobs - would not be opened in one go .
Although he did not rule it out, Mr Drakeford also suggested it was unlikely pubs and restaurants would be open at the start of April.
He said a revised plan out of lockdown would be published within days .