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Prince Charles hails 'courage' of Commonwealth during COVID crisis as hype builds over Harry and Meghan's Oprah interview - Sky News

The Prince of Wales has paid tribute to the "extraordinary determination, courage and creativity" of people throughout the Commonwealth during the COVID crisis, as the Royal Family carry on with their work amid the hype around Harry and Meghan's interview with Oprah.

Prince Charles delivers the speech during a television programme due to be broadcast tomorrow ahead of Commonwealth Day on Monday.

Speaking from Westminster Abbey, where he was last seen publicly with Meghan and Harry, he says: "The coronavirus pandemic has affected every country of the Commonwealth, cruelly robbing countless people of their lives and livelihoods, disrupting our societies and denying us the human connections which we so dearly cherish.

"Amidst such heart-breaking suffering, however, the extraordinary determination, courage and creativity with which people have responded has been an inspiration to us all."

Talking about how it has made many refocus on the environment he adds: "This pandemic has shown us the true nature of a global emergency. We have learned that human health, economic health and planetary health are fundamentally interconnected and that pandemics, climate change and biodiversity loss are existential threats which know no borders."

The programme featuring the Royal Family celebrating the Commonwealth will be screened a few hours before the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey.

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In extracts released over the past few days, Meghan has criticised the constraints she faced as a working royal, and said it was "liberating" to be able to "say yes" to a request for an interview with the US chat show host.

She accused The Firm - as the Royal Family is sometimes known - of "perpetuating falsehoods" about her and Harry.

But the Windsors have continued their official work in recent weeks despite the hype around the interview, and the Duke of Edinburgh being admitted to hospital.

Commonwealth Day is one of the most important days of the year for the Queen, who has made the Commonwealth a cornerstone of her official work during her 69-year reign.

A pre-recorded message from Her Majesty will feature in the programme along with contributions from other members of the family.

In a video call between the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and a medic in South Africa, Kate says it's sad that it's taken a pandemic to make the world wake up to the contribution of medical staff.

She says: "Here in the UK there's been masses of public recognition of the amazing work the front line are doing and it's sad, almost, that it's taken the pandemic for the public to really back and support all those working on the front line."

HRH The Duchess of Cornwall speaks to Clare Balding,  from the BBC in an interview in Poets Corner, Westminster Abbey in advance of Commonwealth Day 2021. Pic: Westminster Abbey/Picture Partnership
Image: Camilla said she 'always had a passion for books'. Pic: Westminster Abbey/Picture Partnership

Camilla is featured speaking to broadcaster Clare Balding about how her interest in books was inspired by her father Major Bruce Shand's love for literature.

The duchess says: "I've always had a passion for books. Books have been part of my life for so long. I started reading when I was very, very young with a father who was a fervent bibliophile. So from the age of two or three he used to sit and read to us children, take us on wonderful adventures... all over the world."

While Sophie, the Countess of Wessex, speaks by video link to three women from around the Commonwealth, to hear about their experiences of supporting other women and their wider communities.

It was at Westminster Abbey's Commonwealth Day service in March last year when the Sussexes were last seen with their family, sitting close to the Queen, Charles, Camilla and William and Kate.

Their much-anticipated interview with Oprah will air on Sunday night in the US.

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2021-03-06 16:04:15Z
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NHS pay row: 'Large numbers' of nurses could quit after 'slap in the face' offer as pressure mounts on government - Sky News

The proposed 1% pay rise for NHS staff is a "slap in the face" and large numbers of nurses could quit after the pandemic, a union has warned as pressure grows on the government over the row.

The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said the 1% offer had reinforced some of their members' belief "that they are not valued by either the government or perhaps some of the public".

NHS Providers, which represents NHS trusts in England, said a long-term plan set out by the government assumed a pay rise of more than 2% for healthcare workers in 2021/22, claiming it was "enshrined in law".

And in a sign that a Conservative rebellion may be brewing, a former Tory health minister said it was the "wrong time" to be restraining the pay of NHS workers who have gone "above and beyond" during the pandemic.

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As tensions have risen, the RCN has set up a £35m industrial action fund - threatening to take strike action - while another union has urged the public to support a slow hand clap next week mocking the proposals.

Patricia Marquis, the RCN's South East regional director, said there was a "real risk" that "significant numbers of experienced, expert nurses will see the end of the pandemic (and think) that enough is enough".

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She told Times Radio: "We know there are significant numbers who are planning to leave and this slap in the face from the government really has just reinforced their belief that they are not valued by either the government or perhaps some of the public in the way they would want to be."

Ms Marquis said there were 40,000 nursing vacancies in England when the country went into the pandemic and people were working to cover those roles.

She added that going on strike was "certainly" on the minds of RCN members but that was not the first option and she did not think this would happen during the pandemic.

NHS Providers has said it is "absolutely wrong" for ministers to renege on a pay rise that it calculated had already been budgeted for.

Its deputy chief executive Saffron Cordery told Sky News: "This pay rise was baked into what was promised to the NHS, and is set out as part of the revenue settlement, which is an act of parliament now - the NHS Funding Act 2020.

"So it's really enshrined in law that there should be a pay rise of 2.1%."

Tory MP Dr Dan Poulter, a former health minister who has been assisting on the NHS front line during the pandemic, called for a rethink on the 1% proposal.

He said it is "very valid" for ministers to turn their attention to paying back the £400bn borrowed during the coronavirus crisis - but it is the "wrong time to be making this decision".

The MP told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that many NHS staff worked "without the right equipment to protect themselves" in the early part of the pandemic and they had "gone above and beyond the hours they are already paid for".

He added: "For me, this is, from a moral perspective, the wrong time to be applying pay restraint."

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Dr Poulter called on ministers to accept whatever the health service pay review body recommends in terms of a salary increase, and argued it would be "counterproductive economically to squeeze permanent wages" as it has caused the NHS agency bill to balloon in the past.

Senior Tory backbenchers Sir Roger Gale and Andrew Percy are among those to have broken ranks to criticise the 1% decision in recent days.

Labour has argued the pay recommendation amounts to a "real terms cut" to wages given that the Office for Budget Responsibility is predicting inflation will rise to 1.5% in the coming year.

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Shadow health minister Alex Norris said the bid to "balance the budget" on the back of an NHS pay reduction seems "a very strange set of priorities".

Speaking at a news conference on Friday evening, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said NHS staff had been "carved out" of a pay freeze affecting other public sector employees, adding affordability had to be taken into account when deciding pay.

"We have set out what is affordable given the very significant challenges in public finances," he said, referring to the impact of the pandemic.

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2021-03-06 14:31:27Z
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Oprah 'took £6,500,000' for interview but Meghan Markle and Prince Harry weren't paid - Metro.co.uk

CBS 'paying Oprah $9,000,000' for interview while Harry and Meghan say they aren't getting fee
Audiences in 69 countries across the world will tune into the ‘no-holds-barred’ interview (Picture: CBS/REX)

CBS is paying Oprah Winfrey up to £6.5 million ($9 million) for her explosive interview with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle – but the royal couple isn’t getting a penny, sources claim.

The US network is believed to have forked out between £5 million ($7 million) and £6.5 million ($9 million) in license fees to the chat show host’s production company Harpro Productions.

Representatives for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex say they are not being paid and are not receiving a financial donation for a charity of their choice.

The two-hour special – which was recently extended by half an hour – was originally pitched to NBC and ABC as well as CBS, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Viewers in 69 countries will tune into the ‘tell-all’ interview, which will see Meghan claim that Buckingham Palace banned her from talking with Oprah before her royal wedding in 2018.

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In a new clip released yesterday, she added that she ‘wasn’t even allowed’ to reject the interview personally and was forced to have members of the royal communications team in the room during the conversation.

She said: ‘We’re on the other side of a lot of life experience that’s happened and also we have the ability to make our own choices in a way I couldn’t have said yes to you then. That wasn’t my choice to make.’

Another snippet from the chat showed the former actress claim she cannot be expected to ‘just be silent’ as the Royal Family ‘plays an ‘active role in perpetuating falsehoods’ about her

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Palace insiders have denied accusations of a smear campaign after a probe was launched into bullying allegations made against Meghan three years ago.

They told The Times: ‘It is absolutely untrue that the Palace has been peddling disinformation or conducting any kind of campaign ahead of the interview. The Palace has not got involved. It has clearly not been coming from us.’

However, the duchess’s former co-star hit out against the Royal Family in a scathing statement on Friday.

Patrick J Adams, who played Meghan’s love interest on Suits, said she was an ‘enthusiastic, kind, cooperative, giving, joyful and supportive member of our television family’, and remained the same way after she became a senior royal.

Blasting the ‘endless racist, slanderous, clickbaiting vitriol’ produced by the media, he added that the Royal Family’s bullying investigation was ‘obscene’.

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The actor wrote: ’IMO, this newest chapter and it’s timing is just another stunning example of the shamelessness of an institution that has outlived its relevance, is way overdrawn on credibility and apparently bankrupt of decency [sic].

‘Find someone else to admonish, berate and torment. My friend Meghan is way out of your league.’

People in the UK can catch the Oprah interview on ITV at 9pm on Monday evening.

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2021-03-06 09:10:00Z
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COVID-19: New variants 'very unlikely to send us back to square one' as UK lockdown eased, says top scientist - Sky News

New variants of COVID-19 are "very unlikely to send us back to square one" as coronavirus restrictions are lifted in the UK in the run-up to summer, a top scientist has said.

Professor Sharon Peacock, who is in charge of tracking strains of the virus in Britain, said the country is well equipped to "stay ahead" by adapting vaccines quickly.

The head of the COVID-19 Genomics UK scientific body told The Times she was "very optimistic" that immunisation would allow Britain to ease restrictions as planned.

Schools in England will reopen to all pupils on Monday in the first stage of the lockdown lifting, with most restrictions set to be gone by June 21.

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Prof Peacock told the Times: "I'm very optimistic that the vaccines will be rolled out, that they'll be effective, and that we'll be in a better place by the summer and autumn.

"I think we've got the capabilities to stay ahead by adapting vaccines, and so I'm an optimist."

New variants are "very unlikely to send us back to square one", she added.

Her comments came as the mystery sixth case of the Manaus variant of coronavirus was tracked down and identified to Croydon in south London.

Officials had been hunting for the unknown individual after cases of the variant of concern were detected in the UK.

Six cases of the P1 variant, first identified in the Brazilian city of Manaus, have been found - three in Scotland and three in England.

Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the "dogged determination" of testing and tracing teams had found the sixth person, who had been staying at home after returning from Brazil.

There was "no evidence of onward transmission" and more testing is being done in Croydon as a precaution "to minimise the possibility of spread", he added.

There is evidence to suggest the Manaus mutation, along with the South African variant, may be able to more easily evade the vaccines currently being rolled out in Britain.

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Prof Peacock said cases of the South African variant were not "taking off" in the same way as the Kent variant did - which prompted the latest lockdown - but "there's no reason for being complacent".

A total of 295 cases of the South African variant have been detected in the UK, up to 3 March.

More than one million people in the UK have now received both doses of a COVID-19 vaccine, while almost 21.4 million people have had one dose.

Mr Hancock told a Downing Street news conference on Friday the "unbreakable link" between COVID-19 cases, hospitalisations and deaths is being broken by the vaccination programme.

The health secretary said the average daily number of COVID-19 cases, hospital admissions and deaths are the lowest they have been since the autumn.

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A further 236 people had died within 28 days of testing positive for COVID-19 as of Friday, according to government figures.

The UK also registered 5,947 new coronavirus cases on Friday, down from 6,573 a day earlier.

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Mr Hancock warned there are still 12,136 people in UK hospitals with COVID-19, which is "too high", but that the data was evidence "we're heading in the right direction".

From today, businesses of all sizes, including those with fewer than 50 employees, will be able to register to order lateral flow tests, which can produce results in less than 30 minutes, for their workers.

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2021-03-06 10:38:20Z
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EU turns to US in scramble for Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine - Financial Times

The EU will urge the US to permit the export of millions of doses of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine to Europe as Brussels scrambles to bridge supply shortfalls that have hobbled its inoculation drive.

The European Commission plans to raise the matter in forthcoming transatlantic discussions aimed at boosting collaboration on the fight against Covid-19, EU officials said.

The EU also wants Washington to ensure the free flow of shipments of crucial vaccine ingredients needed in European production, including for groundbreaking mRNA technology vaccines. 

The European push to access US production of the AstraZeneca jab — which was made in collaboration with Oxford university — comes as the company battles to meet first-quarter 2021 EU delivery targets already slashed because of production problems in the bloc.

AstraZeneca has also said it intends to source half of its planned second-quarter supply to the EU from elsewhere in the world.

The European Commission told the Financial Times: “We trust that we can work together with the US to ensure that vaccines produced or bottled in the US for the fulfilment of vaccine producers’ contractual obligations with the EU will be fully honoured.”

The EU move comes after it emerged this week that Italy and the commission had blocked a shipment of AstraZeneca jabs to Australia. That stoked global tensions and fears of vaccine hoarding. 

The EU is urgently trying to boost a vaccine rollout that has trailed those in both the US and the UK.

AstraZeneca declined to comment on the EU effort to access its US production.

Joe Biden, US president, and Ursula von der Leyen, European Commission president, discussed pandemic co-operation on Friday. The US and EU are both big vaccine producers and have a “strong interest” in working together for the good functioning of world supply chains, the commission said after the call. 

Thierry Breton, EU internal market commissioner, has now been tasked to work with Jeffrey Zients, US co-ordinator of the Covid-19 response, on vaccine supply chain matters. EU officials are hopeful that the more co-operative transatlantic relationship seen since Biden took office will help smooth the effort. 

AstraZeneca insists that it remains on track to hit its target to deliver 40m doses to the EU by the end of the first quarter — a number revised down from an original plan to ship at least 100m shots by the end of March.

The company has also said it will need to source 90m second-quarter EU doses from outside the bloc, but has not stated where these would come from. 

The White House has said it intends vaccine doses made in the US to be used to meet domestic demand first, as per an executive order signed by former president Donald Trump in December.

While Washington does have an order for 300m doses of the AstraZeneca jab, the situation is complicated because it has not yet been authorised by US regulators.

A White House official said: “The president’s first priority is to make vaccines available for every American. The US and EU have committed to deepening co-operation on pandemic response, including by enhancing public health capabilities and information sharing. We know that in order to beat this pandemic and to turn a corner on economic recovery, we must work with our allies and partners.”

The EU also wants to ensure that US rules do not impede shipments of raw materials needed for vaccine manufacture in Europe.

One area of concern is the EU’s dependence on the US for supplies of lipid nanoparticles, which are essential for new mRNA technology vaccines made by companies including BioNTech/Pfizer and Moderna. 

A second White House official said: “The US and EU are reliant on each other for key components in the manufacturing process, and co-operation will remain critical.”

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2021-03-06 09:00:42Z
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NHS pay: More health unions join backlash against 1% pay rise - BBC News

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The government is coming under further pressure to reconsider its planned 1% pay rise for NHS staff, with more unions joining the backlash.

The British Medical Association and other unions said their staff "have literally kept the country alive for the past year".

In an open letter to the chancellor they called for a "fair pay deal".

Health Secretary Matt Hancock earlier defended the pay increase, saying it was "what we think is affordable".

News of the pay deal emerged earlier this week, when the Department of Health and Social Care officially recommended the 1% pay rise to the independent panel that advises the government on NHS salaries.

The panel is due to make its own pay recommendations in early May, when ministers will make their final decision.

But healthcare staff reacted with anger at the plan. The Royal College of Nursing called the rise "pitiful" and started preparing for strike action, saying that its members should get 12.5% instead.

And Unite - the third largest union in the NHS - said it is considering a strike ballot.

Now more unions have joined their calls. The BMA, the Royal College of Nursing, the Royal College of Midwives and Unison have written a joint letter to Chancellor Rishi Sunak to express their "dismay".

"The proposal of a 1% pay offer, not announced from the despatch box but smuggled out quietly in the days afterwards, fails the test of both honesty and fails to provide staff who have been on the very frontline of the pandemic the fair pay deal they need," the letter said.

"Our members are the doctors, nurses, midwives, porters, healthcare assistants and more, already exhausted and distressed, who are also expected to go on caring for the millions of patients on waiting lists, coping with a huge backlog of treatment as well as caring for those with Covid-19."

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  • The lowest minimum full-time salary - for newly employed drivers, housekeeping assistants, nursery assistants and domestic support workers - is £18,005 per year
  • The starting salary for most newly qualified nurses is £24,907
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Meanwhile, the organisation NHS Providers - which represents NHS Trusts in England - said the NHS had been working towards the assumption that it would get a 2.1% pay rise in 2021/22.

"It is very disappointing that the government has said that a 1% pay rise is all that is affordable when they know that the assumption was that the 2021/22 NHS pay rise would be 2.1% - and that this was covered by the NHS revenue settlement announced by Theresa May in June 2018," said Saffron Cordery, the deputy head of NHS Providers.

Although these assumptions were published in 2019 before the pandemic, NHS Providers said the last year has "strengthened the case for a larger pay rise for NHS staff".

'Affordable'

The government has repeatedly insisted that a 1% increase is all they can afford at a time when public finances are already stretched due to the pandemic.

Speaking at Friday's Downing Street briefing, Mr Hancock said the pay award reflected the "difficult financial circumstances the country is in".

"One of the challenges we've faced as a country is in terms of the financial consequences of the pandemic," he said.

"We've proposed what we think is affordable to make sure in the NHS people do get a pay rise."

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The pay award would cover nearly all hospital staff, but not GPs and dentists.

In addition, some staff whose pay band is being changed will get more than a 1% increase as a result of a previously agreed three-year pay deal.

The government said newly-qualified nurses got a 12% pay rise over the course of that three-year agreement They added that 1% was a "real-terms increase", as the latest official inflation figure was 0.9%.

But Unite's national officer for health said it would turn into a "pay cut in real terms" if inflation rises over this year.

The boss of the Royal College of Nursing, Dame Donna Kinnair, also said the rise shows ministers are "dangerously out of touch with nursing staff, NHS workers and the public".

Meanwhile, Labour has said NHS "heroes" deserved more money and the proposed increase was "nothing short of an insult".

The NHS in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland is run by the devolved administrations.

The Scottish government has announced that 2021-22 pay negotiations will be delayed until the summer because of the disruption caused by Covid. Staff have been given an "interim" pay rise of 1%, which will form part of the new settlement.

NHS workers in Northern Ireland were promised a one-off £500 "special recognition" payment in January, following a similar announcement in Scotland.

The Welsh government has said it will not set a "ceiling" of 1% on NHS pay rises for 2021-22.

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  1. Covid: Missing UK person carrying Brazilian variant found | ITV News  ITV News
  2. Missing person with Brazil variant found in Croydon after five-day search  The Independent
  3. UK Covid: Hancock defends nurses' 1% pay rise; mystery person with Brazil variant found in south London – as it happened  The Guardian
  4. COVID-19: Mystery sixth person in UK with Brazilian COVID-19 'variant of concern' is found  Sky News
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