Page 87 - Prof Whitty News Today

The Governments independent advisers on vaccines, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), decided not to recommend the mass rollout of jabs to all 12 to 15-year-olds.

THE UK must not take its "eye off the ball" with Covid-19 vaccinations, an expert has said as he warned the virus could come "roaring back".Dr Chris S

Dr Chris Smith, consultant virologist and lecturer at Cambridge University, has said the UK must not take its eye off the ball with Covid-19 vaccinations, warning the virus could come roaring back.

But Dr Chris Smith said a decision on booster jabs should not be rushed.

The climate change activist (pictured), 18, claimed the nation was guilty of creative carbon accounting and said it was a lie that the UK is a climate leader.

The report found Blackpool is the most deprived local authority in England (Peter Byrne/PA) Serious health challenges existing in coastal towns must be tackled by the Government or they will “get worse”, Professor Chris Whitty has said. England’s chief medical officer (CMO) has recommended a cross-government national strategy to improve the health and wellbeing of coastal communities as part of his 2021 Annual Report. The report found those living in coastal communities face lower life ex...

14 long Covid symptoms you should know with 5,000 cases a day predicted. (PA) As many as 5,000 Brits could be suffering from Long Covid every single day by the end of the summer months according to Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng. Mr Kwarteng said that it is “not beyond the imagination” that so many people will suffer from the condition. It follows the warning from Chris Whitty that the number of long Covid sufferers will increase, particularly among young people. England’s chie...

UK Covid LIVE: Fears for summer chaos as hundreds of thousands forced to self-isolate as ‘urgent need to fix ventilation’ Leah Sinclair and Tom Ambrose © PA Coronavirus - Thu Jul 15, 2021 LIVE – Updated at 21:58 Sharp rise in Covid-19 cases in England as fears grow of self-isolation chaos. The latest figures showed that 530,126 alerts were sent in the most recent week – up 46 per cent on the previous week and the highest seven-day total since data was first published...

news Be cautious as England lockdown ends, urges Whitty © Reuters The UK is "not out of the woods yet" and people should act with caution as Covid restrictions in England end on Monday, Prof Chris Whitty has said. The chief medical adviser warned that hospital admissions were doubling every three weeks and could hit "scary numbers" if the trend continues. Prof Whitty said the pandemic still had a "long way to run in the UK". It comes as the UK recorded nearly 50,000 new cases on Thursday - th...

By Press Association 2021 Chief medical officer for England Chris Whitty during a media briefing in Downing Street, London, on coronavirus (Covid-19) (Daniel Leal-Olivas/PA) The Government’s top medic has warned the number of people in hospital with coronavirus could reach “quite scary” levels within weeks. Professor Chris Whitty said the UK is “not out of the woods yet”, just hours after Boris Johnson declared it was “highly p...