Three-quarters of adults in UK vaccinated
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London, June 3 : UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock has confirmed that more than three-quarters of adults in the country have been administered their first Covid-19 vaccine dose.
Till date, more than 39.5 million people have been given the first jab, according to the latest official figures.
Speaking on Wednesday at the Global Vaccine Confidence Summit in Oxford, Hancock said the UK has started commercial negotiations with AstraZeneca for a vaccine targeted at variants of concerns, including the variant first detected in South Africa, known as Beta.
He acknowledged their role in “working as trusted voices within our communities and particularly in Ramadan to ensure vaccine uptake”.
The British Islamic Medical Association (Bima), which was also invited to the summit, said that faith leadership was being “recognised at the highest levels”.
A YouGov poll last month put the UK public at the top of a global table of willingness to become inoculated against Covid-19, with 90 per cent of those questioned saying they would take a vaccine.
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Portugal was downgraded to the amber list in a blow to holidaymakers and travel firms.
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said ministers had acted because of a rising positivity rate in Portugal and concerns over a new mutation of Covid-19. There s a sort of Nepal mutation of the so-called Indian variant which has been detected and we just don t know the potential for that to be a vaccine-defeating mutation, he said.
Afghanistan, Costa Rica, Sri Lanka, Sudan, and Trinidad & Tobago were the other countries added to the red list.
The government said it was introducing a trial in which people could fly direct from red list countries previously subject to flight bans. They would arrive at dedicated terminals at London Heathrow and Birmingham airports.