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Prolonging interval between Covid vaccine shots to aid rollout speed examined Extending period between shots could maximise numbers vaccinated in rollout Sat, Jan 2, 2021, 01:00 Prof Brian MacCraith, chair of the State’s Covid-19 taskforce, said the issue of increasing the gap between vaccine doses had been discussed by the group in recent days. Photograph: Adam Warzawa/EPA Your Web Browser may be out of date. If you are using Internet Explorer 9, 10 or 11 our Audio player will not work properly.
The State is to examine if the period between the two required doses of Covid-19 vaccinations could be extended in order to accelerate the rollout, as is being done in the United Kingdom. ....
But that s why i do believe that we need more, more european friends. thank you. reporter: president trump and france s president macron discussing things there at the presidential palace in france. president trump is there for the 100th anniversary of the end of world war i. and he s having a bilateral meeting today with macron and with others later this morning and we re going to cut back to kristen welker who is in paris and traveling with the president. kristen, obviously, macron not shieg away from his idea of having an european army and president trump discussing it. that being the foremost topic of this meeting first off this morning. what s your take away here? reporter: a couple of take away, darragh. first of all, you heard both leaders reaffirm their firm ....
Same dinner and same lunch. there will inevitably be interaction. how robust will it be? this will be the first time those two leaders will meet effectively since that very controversial summit they had in helsinki over the summer. what s at stake? what s at the backdrop? of course, we know the russia investigation continues to ramp up. back at home we knew that was going to happen once the mid-terms wrapped up. of course, it comes as president trump just suffered a defeat on domestic soil. democrats took back the house of representatives. as you know, as we have all be reporting on throughout the week. so what does that mean for president trump for this white house? it means they are bracing for a blizzard of investigations, subpoenas, as it relates to russia. as it relates to the president s business, his finances. so that s the backdrop as this weekend gets under way here. but again, the purpose of this weekend, darragh the broader themes to celebrate peace among ....
Allies, the end of world war i. president trump set to visit two cemeteries with american soldiers, darragh. and kristen, you mention this tweet as he was touching down. has that alterred the mood at all? how has that set up the circumstances for him going into this meeting with macron? reporter: there is no doubt that that will have an impact. the french are paying athe engs to every single move that this president makes. we will go in right now and listen to president trump and macron speaking. [ speaking french ] ....
Because these two have had a relationship that s been so close. it s been described as a bromance. you remember macron s visit to the white house. there was a lot of back slapping, smiling. yet, it s also a relationship that has been deteriorating because the two have clashed on a range of foreign policy matters, everything from iran to foreign climate change. so this clash that we saw when president trump touched down really underscored the state of that relation. it s really setting up high drama as we head into this week some we will be watching for the body language between president trump and macron. here s the other big thing we re watching for. darragh, will president trump meet on the side lines with russia s president vladimir putin? as of right now, the president says there is no expanded bilateral meeting planned between the two leaders. we know the two will be at the ....