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COVID-19: People aged 56 to 59 invited to book in for a coronavirus jab from next week - Sky News

People aged 56 to 59 are being invited to book in for a COVID jab, as the NHS vaccination programme continues to gather pace.

Letters sent to 850,000 people in the age bracket began arriving on Saturday, with another 850,000 expected to arrive on Monday.

It comes after more that eight in 10 people aged between 65 and 69 took up the offer of a jab.

A total of 22,887,118 COVID-19 jabs have been given in the UK so far, according to government data up to 5 March.

Of these 21,796,278 were first doses and some 1,090,840 were second doses.

On Friday, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said more than two-fifths, or 40%, of the UK adult population had been offered a vaccine dose.

Ministers say the UK is on track to vaccinate every adult at least once by the end of July.

Before then, the government is aiming to vaccinate everyone in the first nine priority groups on the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) schedule - equivalent to 32 million people - by 15 April.

This includes the clinically vulnerable and all over-50s.

Vaccinations are being administered at more than 1,600 sites across the country, including mosques, museums and rugby grounds.

Mr Hancock said: "The NHS vaccination programme is in full swing and more than 21 million of the most at-risk people have already received their first dose.

"This includes more than 90% of those aged 65 and over and almost nine in 10 people who are clinically extremely vulnerable.

"It's an extraordinary feat and we remain on track to offer a first vaccine to all adults by 31 July.

"We are now inviting people aged 56 to 59 to get their jabs and I urge everyone eligible to come forward as soon as possible."

Dr Nikki Kanani, NHS national medical director for primary care and a GP, said: "The NHS vaccine programme is committed to protecting the country against coronavirus and it is testament to our incredible staff that we can now move on to the next age group."

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People receiving the letters are invited to go book a vaccination slot via the national booking service If they are not able to go online, they can call 119 free of charge.

The NHS made history when Maggie Keenan became the first person in the world to be protected against coronavirus outside of a clinical trial when she received the Pfizer vaccine at Coventry Hospital on 8 December.

The NHS was also the first to deliver the new Oxford AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine when Brian Pinker, 82, received his on 4 January.

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Covid-19: Vaccine offers for those aged 56 or over - BBC News

People aged 56 to 59 in England are being invited to book their coronavirus vaccine from this week.

Letters for people in the age group, offering them the vaccine, started being delivered to homes on Saturday.

It comes after eight in 10 people aged 65 to 69 have taken up the offer of a jab, NHS England said.

But the Office for National Statistics (ONS ) has warned the UK is "not out of the woods yet".

More than 18 million people in England have already had one dose of the vaccine - over a third of the entire adult population.

The latest figures show that across the UK, nearly 21.4 million people have now had one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, with more than a million now having had both doses required.

Dr Nikki Kanani, NHS England national medical director for primary care, said: "The NHS vaccine programme is committed to protecting the country against coronavirus, and it is testament to our incredible staff that we can now move on to the next age group."

She praised the "careful planning and the hard work" of their staff in carrying out so many vaccinations so far.

Health Secretary Matt Hancock urged people to come forward "as soon as possible" when offered a vaccine.

The aim is to vaccinate everyone aged 18 or over in the UK with one dose by the end of July, and the government says it is on track to make this deadline.

'Very strong reductions'

It comes as the head of the ONS says the current lockdown has been a success, but the UK is "not out of the woods yet".

National statistician Prof Sir Ian Diamond told the BBC there had been "very strong reductions" in case numbers overall, but that in the north-east and east of England the decline has "flattened off, potentially".

Other areas, like the South West and South East, have continued to see cases decline, Prof Diamond said.

The ONS conducts a survey of thousands of households to gauge the spread of coronavirus.

There has been a decline in the number of cases in the UK, with the most recent figures, reported on Saturday, showing a further 6,040 positive tests.

The number of deaths in the UK has also been falling, with a further 158 within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test reported in the latest government figures.

This has coincided with the success of the UK's vaccination programme, which has seen two-fifths of adults receive a first dose so far.

Lockdowns have been in place across the UK since early January. On Monday, restrictions in England will begin to be eased as many pupils return to school.

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Deaths from coronavirus have fallen by 41% in a week, while hospital admissions have seen their fastest-ever fall, the health secretary said on Friday.

Mr Hancock said the average number of cases was 6,685 per day, the lowest since late September.

Meanwhile, an infectious disease expert said the "next few weeks are going to be crucial" for keeping infection rates down with the full reopening of schools.

Dr Mike Tildesley, a member of the government's SPI-M modelling advisory panel, told Times Radio the R number - which shows the rate at which coronavirus is spreading - would rise when children go back to their classrooms, but the continuing progress of vaccinations would cause it to reduce.

There are concerns about getting parental consent for Covid tests ahead of pupils' return to schools. A survey found more than half of secondary head teachers had faced difficulties getting parental approval so far.

Questions have been raised too about the accuracy of the rapid lateral flow tests being used, while critics of masks for older pupils say they will harm learning.

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2021-03-06 21:00:22Z
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Disappearance of 25-year-old woman and daughter, two, being treated as murder - Sky News

The disappearances of missing mother Bennylyn Burke and her two-year-old daughter Jellica are being treated as a murder investigation, Police Scotland has said.

Ms Burke, 25, was reported missing from her home in Gloucestershire on 1 March along with two children, including Jellica.

A 50-year-old man was arrested at a property in Troon Avenue, Dundee, on Friday.

He has now been charged in connection with the deaths and will appear at Dundee Sheriff Court on Monday.

Officers are still searching for their bodies.

The force said the second child has been found and is being supported.

Detective Superintendent Graeme Mackie, of Police Scotland's Major Investigation Team, said: "This is a complex enquiry involving both local officers in Dundee and specialist resources from across Police Scotland.

"Bennylyn's next of kin have been updated on the arrest and are being supported by colleagues from Avon and Somerset Police.

"Our thoughts are with her family and friends at this very difficult time.

"There will be an increased police presence in the area for a considerable period of time and I would like to thank the local community for their cooperation.

"Anyone with concerns or information can speak to a local officer or call Police Scotland via 101, quoting incident 1434 of 5 March, 2021."

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2021-03-06 20:26:15Z
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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.

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."

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".

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."

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.

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.

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

Mandatory Credit: Photo by David Fisher/REX (9753789bi) Queen Elizabeth II, Meghan Duchess of Sussex, Prince William and Catherine Duchess of Cambridge on the balcony of Buckingham Palace 100th Anniversary of the Royal Air Force, London, UK - 10 Jul 2018 — Queen Elizabeth II, Meghan and Harry, and Prince William and Kate Middleton on the balcony of Buckingham Palace (Picture: REX)

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’.

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.

Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@metro.co.uk.

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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.

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.

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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