Covid travel news live: US to warn against trips to most of world, as UK border hit by fake test certificates Kate Ng and Jon Sharman Coronavirus in numbers
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LIVE – Updated at 13:23
The US is expected to advise against travelling to more than three-quarters of the world’s countries in an expansion of its coronavirus alert level.
The State Department’s level-four “do not travel” alert currently covers 34 nations including Kenya, Russia and Brazil, but officials now say they will extend it to 80 per cent of the globe.
It comes as British MPs are told that hundreds of people are trying to enter the country on fake Covid test documents.
Covid news - live: UK to ‘supercharge’ search for at-home treatments, as EU warns of ‘possible’ J&J clot link Kate Ng,Jon Sharman and Vincent Wood
LIVE – Updated at 18:40
The UK government is set to launch a taskforce to “supercharge” the hunt for a new generation of antiviral medicines that can treat people infected with Covid-19 in their own homes.
Modelled after the team responsible for obtaining the nation’s vaccine supplies, the taskforce will search for and support treatments currently in development that can reduce transmission and speed up recovery from Covid-19.
Meanwhile, the European medicines regulator said there is a “possible link” between Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine and very rare blood clots.
Putting India on the travel red list was a necessary step due to an “upward trend” in UK cases involving a potentially worrying variant, a public health expert has said.
Sharon Peacock, the head of the Covid-19 Genomics UK Consortium (COG-UK) and professor of public health and microbiology at the University of Cambridge, said it was currently unclear whether the variant first identified in India was behind its current wave, but there was enough concern to warrant slowing the number of cases coming into the UK.
On Monday, Boris Johnson was forced to cancel a trip to India while Health Secretary Matt Hancock told the Commons that 103 cases of the variant had been identified in the UK so far.
Boris Johnson to hold press conference today as more cases of variant strain identified THE Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to hold a coronavirus press conference later on today, according to PA. The PM is reportedly set to address the nation in a televised press briefing scheduled at 5pm today. It comes as India was added to the UK s red list of places forbidden to travel following a rise in emerging variants here. The PM is also expected to provide an update on the UKs battle against the Covid pandemic so far. Earlier today, a public health expert said the decision to place India on the red list was necessary following an upward trend in cases.
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