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When on a winning streak, you should make the most of it. And the British Government has hit the jackpot (again) with its Covid vaccination policy.
The Lancet has just published a study of 9,000 healthcare workers conducted by the Sheba Medical Centre in Israel (the country is the front runner in the global vaccination race). The study showed that just a single dose of the Pfizer vaccine had reduced the number of people developing symptomatic Covid-19 infection by 85 per cent.
This appears to vindicate our Government s controversial decision in the New Year to break with Pfizer s own recommendation that those who received a first jab should get a follow-up one three weeks later. Instead, it decided to maximise the numbers getting a first dose by delaying the second one until 12 weeks later.
Outside of training and competing, a mandatory 10-day quarantine will now be required for all overseas trips for club or international football, complicating the calendar for teams active in Europe.
Professor Chris Whitty tonight insisted the risk posed by coronavirus to children at school is incredibly low as he categorically denied a claim he opposed a full return to classrooms.