Post brexit trade arrangements. If youd like to get in touch this morning, you can tweet me vicderbyshire or email victoria bbc. Co. Uk. A team from the World Health Organization visits the high security chinese lab at the centre of claims over the source of the covid 19 pandemic. And the queen and british Prime Minister have led tributes to captain sir tom moore, whos died at 100 years old, after Testing Positive for Coronavirus Last week. The uk government says it will ensure hes officially remembered. I think we should find a way to make sure that we mark the memory of captain tom and thank him for the contribution that he made for the nhs. So i will ensure that we mark his contribution properly and appropriately at the right moment. Hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world. The Health Secretary, matt hancock, has described as absolutely superb the findings of a study which suggests for the first time that the Oxford Astrazeneca vaccine significantly reduces people passing on the virus. The research by oxford university, which has not yet been formally published, also found that the jab provides a high level of protection even when theres a gap of 12 weeks between the two doses. Researchers believe that the vaccine remains 76 effective for up to three months after the first shot while people wait for a second dose. Until now, little has been known about how effective vaccines are at preventing people passing on the virus to others. But researchers found it may have a significant effect, with a 67 reduction in positive swabs among those vaccinated. Andy moore reports. A double dose of good news about the 0xford astrazeneca vaccine anyone who gets the jab is less likely to pass on the virus to others, and theres support also for the governments policy of a second jab after 12 weeks. We found there was a big reduction in people being infected with coronavirus and because they were not infected, they cant go on and transmit to other people. And so that is really important in potentially curbing the pandemic. Secondly, we had really good protection right from a couple of weeks after the first dose through to the second dose being given three months later, which tells us that theres maintained efficacy over that period. Hello hi. Over that period. But the news about variants is less reassuring the surge in door to door testing in eight areas could now be extended to parts of bristol and liverpool, after new strains were found there that could be more resistant to vaccines. In scotland, the First Minister said there would be a full lockdown until at least the end of the month, and that travellers arriving directly into scotland from any country will be asked to quarantine in a hotel going further than measures announced in the rest of the uk. As we look ahead, we must learn from past experience. We now know, for example, that by earlyjuly last year, we had almost eliminated covid in scotland, but then allowed it to be reseeded from in the main overseas travel. We must guard against that happening again. In england, the Ministry Of Defence says additional measures will be put into place at the Royal Military academy at sandhurst after an increase in covid cases there a newspaper report claimed that 50 Trainee Officers had contracted the virus. France, meanwhile, hasjoined germany, austria and sweden in recommending the 0xford astrazeneca vaccine should not currently be used on people over the age of 65. The French Health regulator said there was not enough data at the moment on the effectiveness of the jab in older people. Health officials here in the uk say the vaccine offers a high level of protection to all age groups. Andy moore, bbc news. This morning, the Health Secretary, matt hancock, welcomed the study� s findings. That is really good news, its very positive, cos we know that vaccines are the way out of this, and this new information from oxford shows that the oxford jab works. And given all the questions that have been raised and whats going on internationally, i think its very important that we show the world that the oxford jab works and works well. Professor Andrew Pollard is Chief Investigator of the oxford Vaccine Trial and co author of a new paper on the trials. It reduces the chances of someone who is exposed getting the infection, and if they dont get the infection, they cant pass it on, so it decreases the risk of transmission in the population. There is one word of caution, in that one of the things this virus is doing as it produces new variants is to try and avoid exactly that happening and to be able to still transmit, despite the fact that we have some immunity, whether from infection or vaccines. It is likely, over time, the virus will find ways of adapting so it can continue to pass between people, despite natural infection and immunity after that, orfrom the vaccines. But that doesnt mean we wont still have protection against severe disease, because there is lots of different ways in which our Immune System fights the virus, it is much more about the virus being able to continue to survive, rather than for it to cause harm to us. But if we do need to update the vaccines, it is a relatively straightforward process, it only takes a matter of months, rather than the huge efforts that everyone went through last year to get a very large scale trials run. Earlier, i spoke to our science correspondent palab ghosh who explained that if the findings are correct, cases will come down much faster. That of course means that restrictions will be able to be lifted faster than could be done otherwise. But the downside, as we heard in the report, is that there are other variants that are battling against our Immune System, battling against the vaccine, so there is a race going on between the bugs adapting in the uk we have heard that there are some that are more resistant to the vaccine, but what weve got to do is what the Department Of Health is doing, suppressing the new variants as best they can to make sure as many of us as possible are vaccinated so that we can start winning this battle. And what does this study tell us about the degree of protection from the first dose of the 0xford astrazeneca vaccine . Well, the mutation first identified in south africa was found to be more resistant to some of the vaccines there, but those vaccines were good enough to stop serious illness, still a high degree of protection. But what it means that it will slow down progress in trying to reduce transmission, which is why there is such an effort in those eight areas where the variant has been identified that might be resistant to vaccines, to try and identify those with the very intent to stop it from spreading so that we can gain the upper hand. And good protection, i think the figure is 76 , so sustained protection of around 76 for that three months until the second dose, is that correct . That is right, there has been a lot of argy bargy as to whether that three month period was sufficient. It was, in the clinical trial, supposed to be three weeks, and various groups, including the british medical association, were suggesting that it should be shorter. 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Stephen mcdonell is in wuhan and sent this update. So there is a visit is probably the most contentious part of the who trip to china. That is because the previous us government, the Trump Administration had said that perhaps the coronavirus had escaped from a lab inside this facility. It is a facility that, for years, has stored samples of viruses. For that reason, there was quite a collection of reporters and cameramen as the cars pulled up here this morning and kind of chaotic scenes as the who team came into the Wuhan Institute and reporters were trying to ask questions of them. Now, the reason for this is that it is one of the only chance we have to ask them anything, because they are kept in a Health Bubble away from the rest of us, and so when we get a chance to throw them a question, that is what we do. Now, i should add that despite the fact that that none the less than the us secretary of state, mike pompeo, the former secretary of state, had said that the coronavirus might have leaked from this lab, we have seen no proof, no hard evidence of this. However, apart from this conspiracy theory, i guess you could put it at this stage, the main reason the team want to come here is that they have been studying at viruses and the way in which they canjump into humans. They even found in one location, in yunan province, the people there seems to have developed a resistance to a type of coronavirus which came from bats. Given this team has said that the most likely origin of the coronavirus still is a Virus Jumping from animals into human beings, possibly via an intermediary animal, of course they would have a lot of questions to ask here, and one of the team members, as he was coming in with his window wound down, so that all christians would be asked on his visit. We willjust have to wait and see what comes out of their final report in terms of what they have been able to glean from this visit. Of course, the team has another whole week here in wuhan, many more meetings to have, and even at the end of that we are not expecting them to come out and say, there it is, the origin of the coronavirus, we have found it. This could take a long time, even years, to get to the bottom of it. Ryanair has been told to remove irresponsible adverts depicting misleading claims about coronavirus vaccinations. The ads encouraged people to book holidays with ryanair after being vaccinated, suggesting customers could jab and go. The Advertising Standards Authority received more than 2000 complaints, the third highest ever received for an advert. Ryanair has stopped the ads but said it disagreed with the rulings. A group of mps and peers is proposing a new law to stop care homes from introducing blanket bans on visitors. Parliaments Joint Committee On Human Rights argues that Care Home Providers should only block a visit if they can prove its unsafe. The nhs says a Covid Vaccine has now been offered to all older residents at eligible care homes in england. This morning, the head of nhs test and trace, baroness dido harding, has been answering questions from mps on the performance of the service. She was asked to clarify how long people have had to wait for a test result. figs people have had to wait for a test result. � ,. ,. , people have had to wait for a test result. � ,. ,. , ~ people have had to wait for a test result. ~ ,. ,. , ~. , people have had to wait for a test result. � ,. ,. , ~. ,. , result. As of last week, nine out of ten people result. As of last week, nine out of ten people who result. As of last week, nine out of ten people who came result. As of last week, nine out of ten people who came forward result. As of last week, nine out of ten people who came forward for. Result. 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