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Stephen Sackur speaks to Professor Sir Andrew Pollard, a key player in the development of the Oxford AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine.

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Made your holiday plans weeks and weeks ago. he may have well have turned stage to page two and it said its come too late because unless you have got some home lined up to me of already made other holiday plans and its far too late to take advantage of this decision affecting france, which of course for the past two or three weeks has been an s amber plus category where you have to quarantine when you came back because of the high cases of the beta variant, even though its those variants that wh...

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With arrivals from france to england no longer having to quarantine if they have been fully vaccinated. in the past few minutes scotland has also announced it will follow england with the changes. thats what you can hear me wrestling with, we have just printed it here. those who arrive in edinburgh or glasgow from france will not have to isolate. the daily telegraph adds that seven countries will be added to the green list destinations — while india and the united arab emirates will be move fr...

A pause from the bigger problem, the bigger story. a pause from the bigger problem, the biggerstory. it a pause from the bigger problem, the bigger story. it is well—timed, this announcement catch all of the front page of some of the late evening use commitments registry everybody is talking about, i suppose this time of year, its fair enough. people need that information. some of the options are summer opening up even if others are disappearing. it’s if others are disappearing. its sure to ...

But the government is advising passengers to have the more expensive pcr test rather than the cheaper lateral flow test before they depart for the uk. what we do want to do is be able to work with the clinicians, the experts in spain in order to keep a very close eye on this beta variant that we already know so much more about now, and pcr tests enable us to do that. labour have argued the government are still over complicating travel will stop having this confusion, having this change is going ...

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