January 29, 2021, 2:55 pm
Health Secretary Jeane Freeman said the Scottish Government will publish figures for supplied doses (Jeff J Mitchell/PA)
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Publishing details about Scotland’s vaccine supply is the right thing to do, the country’s Health Secretary has said.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced on Thursday plans to release the “actual supply figures” from next week, despite a previous warning from the UK Government that publishing such data could be commercially sensitive.
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Four family members die of Covid-19 after leaving 10-month isolation for Christmas party
The wife of one of the deceased is blaming UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson for allowing families to meet during the holidays.
January 28, 2021 09:59 GMT
Tracy Latham from Mackworth, Derby in the UK is now mourning the deaths of four members of her family after they all died from COVID-19. Her partner, Darren Fisher, 48, his parents, and an uncle all died following a Christmas Day gathering. They had all been isolating for ten months before the fateful event.
The entire family claims that they had diligently been sheltering at home and staying safe since the novel coronavirus first broke out in March. However, the UK government allowed family bubbles of three households to meet during the holidays despite rising cases in the country.
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UK launches global assessment platform to track new coronavirus variants as they emerge The platform will supposedly offer genomics expertise in the UK to identify new variants, to countries who do not have the resources to do so. The novel coronavirus was declared a pandemic of international concern by the WHO in April.
The UK launched a New Variant Assessment Platform on Tuesday, which it says will offer the country s world-leading genomics expertise to identify new variants of the virus that causes COVID-19 to countries who do not have the resources to do so. As part of the UK s Presidency of the G7 this year, UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock outlined the plans in a speech at the think tank Chatham House the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London as he laid out his vision for a stronger, more collaborative and effective global health system, not just in fighting the COVID-19