The decision that we must move to alert level four. The government in scotland says it intends to issue strengthened guidance over the relaxation of Christmas Covid regulations. The five day relaxation is a window of opportunity during which you can meet. It is not a period that we think it is safe or sensible to get together for. You should see it as a maximum, not a target. Injecting progress almost 140,000 people have been vaccinated for coronavirus so far in the uk. As london goes into tier 3, other areas of england are hoping to be moved down following a review today of covid restrictions. Nine year old Ella Kissi Debrah died in 2013, the inquest finds that air pollution did contribute to her death. Good afternoon, and welcome to bbc news. Christmas isnt cancelled, but leaders across the uk want you to be very careful. The rules over festive gatherings will not be changed despite growing pressure for them to be toughened. All four nations have agreed to not to make a formal change
Despite pressure to toughen the restrictions over christmas mixing theres to be no formal change to the relaxation of covid rules. The Prime Minister says hell stick to the rules allowing households to meet over the five day festive window but issues stronger guidance to families. We do think its absolutely vital that people should at this very, very tricky time, exercise a high degree of personal responsibility. Here we go again, mr speaker, ignoring the medical advice, and we know where that leads because weve seen what happened in the last nine months. But the Welsh Government issues separate guidance that only two households should meet over christmas and the nation will go into full lockdown from december the 28th. In scotland families are given guidance to only come together for one day
at christmas, not five. Well be getting the latest, live, from westminster, cardiff and glasgow and talking to our Health Editor. Also this lunchtime injecting progress. Almost 140,000 people have
And you can find out more about the symptoms of coronavirus and how to protect yourself on the bbc news app and on our website bbc. Co. Uk news. We woke capture a lot of sunshine gcioss we woke capture a lot of sunshine across the uk today and the weather is not looking bad for most of us this afternoon however the weekend is looking mixed and most of us will get at least a bit of rain fell from time to time. There will be some sunshine in the forecast as well. We are between weather systems but you can see low are between weather systems but you can see low pressure are between weather systems but you can see low pressure is starting to approach our neighbourhood and to the south west of us, the size of ireland and the south west of england, clouds are starting to increase. Also across other parts of the country but a few spots of rain. Once again the vast majority of us this afternoon the weather is
looking absolutely fine. Notice the band of weather moves across cornwall and many of
Opportunity for our economy to recover as quickly as possible. Boris johnson reviews the coronavirus lockdown with his cabinet, having suggested some rules could be eased from monday. Analysis of deaths from coronavirus in the uk reveals that the risk of dying from covid 19 among some ethnic groups is significantly higher. Just adjusting for age, we saw that the black ethnic grouping was just over four times more likely to die of covid related issues than the white group, and the bangladeshi and Pakistani Group was about three and a half times more likely and the indian grouping about two and a half times more likely. Hundreds of thousands of surgical gowns, ordered from turkey last month, havent been given to nhs workers because they dont meet british safety standards. A massive gas leak at a Chemical Plant in eastern india has killed at least 13 people, with hundreds more taken to hospital. Hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. Were covering all the latest co
The government needs to act over the next decade to improve the 3.7 million UK homes that blight the lives of their inhabitants, according to a new charity-led campaign.