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We're now between the two gun lines and there's a right old artillery duel going on between them. the battle on the ground tookjust over a month. short, but victory would be bittersweet for robert lawrence, a young lieutenant in the scots guards who fought in one of the last battles at tumbledown. it became gutter fighting. ammunition, you know, re—supplies aren't going to happen in the middle of a battle, so once you're using up your ammunition, you start using whatever you can lay your hands on, including enemy weapons, and your bayonet. towards the end of the battle, robert was shot in th...

Long way to go in terms of the booster uptake.— long way to go in terms of the booster uptake. for now, robert, thanks for— booster uptake. for now, robert, thanks forjoining _ booster uptake. for now, robert, thanks forjoining us. _ the uk's medicines regulator has approved a new anti viral pill for covid. the drug company pfizer claims that when taken by high risk patients with mild to moderate symptoms, paxlovid reduces hospitalizations and deaths by 89%. the two active substances of paxlovid come as separate tablets that are packaged and taken together, twice a day by mouth for five da...

We will keep you up—to—date with that story and all its developments. that's all the sport for now. jane, thank you very much. let's talk more about the potential change in england to drop the need for confirmatory pcr tests after you've had a positive lateral flow. you will still have to isolate. with me to discuss this is our head of statistics robert kraft. with me now our head of statistics, robert cuffe. so what has changed? the tests have not changed. — so what has changed? the tests have not changed, but _ so what has changed? the tests have not changed, but what _ so what has cha...

And the requirement to self—isolate on arrival until receipt of a negative pcr test will be dropped. he also said this. thanks to the sheer size of the omicron wave, we still need to take steps to ensure our testing capacity reaches those who need it most. we will be suspending the need to do a pcr to confirm the result of a positive lateral flow test. from next tuesday, if you test positive, you should just record that result and begin self—isolation. the latest figures show the uk has reported just under 200,000 new cases of the coronavirus in the past 2a hours. the latest figures from t...

Secondly, which is going to come into effect from tomorrow... they have agreed that if a person showing no symptoms has a positive lateral flow test they are no longer advised to have a follow—up pcr test to confirm that result unless they are in a clinically vulnerable group, which may need early access to treatment, of course. they hope this means that there will be something like an easing of demand by 5—15% for pcr tests. so that is what wales have just decided. we have more figures from the office of national statistics and to talk to us about them is ahead of statistics, robert cuffe...