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Dame Sarah Gilbert: Next pandemic could be more lethal than Covid - ITV News

Another pandemic will threaten human lives and could be “more contagious” and “more lethal”, one of the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid vaccine inventors has warned.

Professor Dame Sarah Gilbert, delivering the 44th prestigious Richard Dimbleby Lecture, said the scientific advances made in research against fighting deadly viruses “must not be lost”.

She also addressed the rise in the Omicron variant across the UK, with at least 246 cases, saying the variant may have mutations on the spike protein "that may mean antibodies induced by the vaccines, or by infection with other variants, may be less effective at preventing infection".

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The Oxford professor is credited with saving millions of lives through her role in designing the coronavirus vaccine.

Speaking of the threat of another pandemic, she said: “This will not be the last time a virus threatens our lives and our livelihoods. The truth is, the next one could be worse. It could be more contagious, or more lethal, or both.

“We cannot allow a situation where we have gone through all we have gone through, and then find that the enormous economic losses we have sustained mean that there is still no funding for pandemic preparedness.

“The advances we have made, and the knowledge we have gained, must not be lost.”

Dame Sarah has been making and testing vaccines for more than 10 years, mainly using antigens from malaria and influenza, and initiated the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine project in early 2020 when Covid first emerged in China.

The vaccine developed by her team is used in more than 170 countries around the world.

The vaccinologist received a damehood earlier this year for services to science and public health in Covid vaccine development.

Ralph Evans, 88, receives the Oxford University/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. Credit: PA

Speaking about the Omicron variant, Dame Sarah added: “The spike protein of this variant contains mutations already known to increase transmissibility of the virus.

“But there are additional changes that may mean antibodies induced by the vaccines, or by infection with other variants, may be less effective at preventing infection with Omicron.

“Until we know more, we should be cautious, and take steps to slow down the spread of this new variant.

“But as we have seen before, reduced protection against infection and mild disease does not necessarily mean reduced protection against severe disease and death.”

On Sunday, the UK Health Security Agency said a further 86 cases of Omicron had been confirmed in the UK, 68 in England and 18 in Scotland, bringing the total to 246.

Boris Johnson insisted on Monday that the government's response to Omicron has been swift and proportionate, citing new, stricter travel restrictions.

Boris Johnson says the government was the first country in the world to take 'decisive measures' in response to the Omicron variant

"I don't think we need to change the overall guidance and advice we're giving about Omicron in this country. We're still waiting to see exactly how dangerous it is - what sort of effect it has in terms of deaths and hospitalisation," he said during a media round after visiting police.

But Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the government had been "behind the curve" in its reaction to the new variant.

He said: "As soon as we saw the evidence that there would be pre-departure tests, we called on the government to do this last week - the government delayed as they always do".

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Alongside travel restrictions, the booster vaccine programme in the UK has been accelerated in response to the spread of the variant.

But there are warnings GPs who delivered the first and second jabs to the housebound are now dropping out as they do not have the time or staff.

In response, a NHS spokesman said: “Local NHS and GP teams are contacting their eligible housebound patients, and we are working closely with St John Ambulance to give local areas additional support.

“We are also providing additional funding to help local teams secure additional staff so that all eligible housebound patients are offered a booster as quickly and safely as possible.”

England has also brought back tougher regulations on the wearing of face coverings in shops and public transport.

Health Secretary Sajid Javid will update MPs on the current Covid situation, on Monday afternoon in Parliament.

The Richard Dimbleby lecture, named in honour of the late broadcaster, features influential speakers from academia, arts and business and the royal family - it will air on BBC on Monday night.

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Arthur Labinjo-Hughes: Review of his death 'owes it to him' - BBC News

Authorities owe it to Arthur Labinjo-Hughes and all children to review events leading up to his killing, the crime and policing minister Kit Malthouse has said.

The stepmother and father of the tortured, poisoned schoolboy were jailed on Friday for murder and manslaughter respectively.

The government has confirmed a national review into Arthur's death.

Mr Malthouse urged public patience amid "understandable" anger.

The National Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel will lead the investigation and will provide additional support to Solihull Children's Safeguarding Partnership to "upgrade" the existing local review launched shortly after Arthur's death in June 2020.

It emerged during the trial he had been seen by social workers just two months before he died, but they concluded there were "no safeguarding concerns".

Mr Malthouse told the BBC: "There are broadly two inquiries, the first inquiry will look very carefully at what actually happened in this truly appalling case."

He said the second would be a "wider review" looking at systems across the whole of the country "to try and examine whether there are lessons that can be learned for the system more generally to try and prevent these type of awful cases in the future".

He added he "found it hard to read about what actually happened".

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Emma Tustin was jailed for 29 years and Arthur's father, Thomas Hughes, for 21. The pair were also convicted of various child cruelty offences.

Their sentences are set to be reviewed by the Attorney General's Office.

The trial heard Arthur had been poisoned with salt by Tustin and subjected to regular beatings by both adults. He was also given punishments such as being denied food and drink and being made to stand for hours alone in a hallway.

Tustin delivered a fatal head injury to Arthur while in her sole care.

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Mr Malthouse said it was so far unclear "whether there were just individual failings by human beings, or whether there was a systemic fail".

He said: "This was an incredibly horrible case we must examine it in detail - we have to learn."

"I understand people's anger about this case and I understand their demand for answers quickly," the minister said, adding: "But we owe it to him actually, and to all those children out there, to carefully piece together the lessons that we can learn from this and then put them into action as swiftly as we can after we've learned the lessons."

Education secretary Nadhim Zahawi is due to make a statement to the Commons on Monday afternoon regarding the case.

On Sunday, hundreds of people gathered on Cranmore Road, Solihull - the home of Tustin, and where Arthur was fatally injured - to pay their respects to him.

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‘Significant’ Covid outbreak linked to Scots music event with number of Omicron cases confirmed - Scottish Daily Record

Health officials have identified a 'significant' outbreak of Covid-19 - including a small number of Omicron variant cases - in the Highlands.

A statement from NHS Highland, published on Sunday night, said the cases were linked to a music event being held at the Royal British Legion in Nairn on Saturday November 27.

The health board also revealed tonight that ward 5A in Raigmore Hospital, Inverness, has been closed to new admissions and visiting following the detection of a small number of Covid cases.

It comes after the Scottish Government confirmed earlier on Sunday that another 18 cases of the Omicron variant were detected in Scotland - the highest daily total so far.

A NHS Highland statement read: “NHS Highland’s Health Protection Team has identified a significant outbreak of COVID-19 linked to a music event held at the Royal British Legion in Nairn on Saturday 27th November 2021.

“A small number of those cases have now been identified as cases of the newly identified Omicron variant.”

The health board urged anyone who attended this event and have not yet been contacted by their health protection of contact tracing team, to self-isolate immediately and call 01463 704886.

The statement continued: “Enhanced contact tracing has been carried out in keeping with guidance for the management of a new variant.

“The Omicron variant is a new Covid variant which we are still learning about. Until more is known about it we need to be cautious and do everything we can to prevent spread. As such, the current isolation advice does not apply and close contacts will be asked to isolate for ten days irrespective of their vaccination status and PCR test result.

“Their households will also be asked to take additional action in order to try to reduce transmission within our communities.

“We are working very closely with the staff at the Royal British Legion who have been supporting the outbreak investigation.”

Covid: Travel changes too late to halt potential new wave - scientist - BBC News

Passengers push their luggage past signage displaying the way to a Covid-19 test centre, in Terminal 5 at Heathrow airport in London,

The latest travel rule changes are "a case of shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted," a scientist advising the government has said.

Prof Mark Woolhouse said the new rules had come "too late" to make a "material difference" to a potential wave of the Omicron variant in the UK.

The changes include pre-departure tests for people arriving in the UK and Nigeria going on the travel red list.

No 10 said the changes were due to a rise in travel-linked Omicron cases.

From 04:00 GMT on Tuesday travellers aged 12 and over will be required to show proof of a negative PCR or lateral flow test taken no earlier than 48 hours before departure.

Health Secretary Sajid Javid said the measures were temporary.

Nigeria will also be added to the travel red list of countries from Monday, which means UK or Irish nationals, or UK residents returning from the country must quarantine in a hotel for 10 days.

But the latest changes have been described by the travel industry as a "hammer blow", with the Business Travel Association warning livelihoods would be "devastated".

Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab accepted the latest measures might "upset or disrupt" some people, but insisted it was right for ministers to take "incremental steps" early to avoid "bigger disruption" to travel and the economy.

Prof Woolhouse, a member of the government's Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (Spi-M), told the BBC's Andrew Marr that while imported cases of the Omicron variant were "important", community transmission of the variant would be the driver of a next wave.

He added the numbers of UK Omicron cases were currently "quite small" and he strongly suspected the absolute number was "more in the hundreds than the thousands".

But he warned Omicron was "spreading pretty rapidly" in the UK, and if current trends here and in South Africa continued in the coming weeks and months, it could even replace the Delta variant around the world.

Asked about Prof Woolhouse's comment the new restrictions had come too late, Mr Raab said there would always be "Goldilocks criticism that we've done too much or we've done too little".

He said ministers would stay "eternally vigilant" to the risks associated with the Omicron variant and that measures, including adding countries to the travel red list, were intended to prevent its "reseeding" in the UK.

Citing this week's drop in the number of Covid hospital admissions and deaths and the "success" of the vaccination rollout, he said: "We have steadily and steadfastly created the resilient defences which means we can enjoy Christmas."

But Dr Katherine Henderson, president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said hospitals were already struggling to cope because of winter pressures, and warned the NHS would be in a "very, very difficult position" if the new variant led to a surge in hospital admissions.

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It comes as the UK Health Security Agency reported on Sunday a further 86 cases of the Omicron variant across the UK, taking the total so far to 246.

Scientists have raised concerns the heavily-mutated variant may be more transmissible than the dominant Delta strain and be able to escape immunity from vaccines.

Ten southern African countries had already been added to the UK's travel red list, because of fears about Omicron - South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Lesotho, Eswatini, Angola, Mozambique, Malawi and Zambia.

'I don't think people have certainty any more'

Dennis Mclean and his partner Janet on a previous holiday

Denis Mclean has booked a holiday to Tenerife leaving on 27 January but he's thinking about cancelling because of the new rules.

"When they announced we'd have to have a PCR test on the way back within two days, I thought that's manageable.

"But now they want you to do another one 48 hours before you return and it's just the extra cost."

He says he's worried about the rules changing again if they do actually go, but also concerned about rebooking for a later date due to the uncertainty.

"We've waited over two years to have another holiday, and I know there are more important things in life but we gave them up in the pandemic because that's what you had to do," he says.

"Sure, variants come along and we've got to tackle that, but I don't think people have certainty any more and it's a shame."

Former Prime Minister Tony Blair has called for a new global set of travel rules to encourage countries to continue sequencing Covid variants without fear of facing a travel blacklist.

He told BBC Radio 4's The World This Weekend: "What you will find is as this proceeds, and as we realise that you're going to have to have proof of vaccination that's credible and authentic, if you don't have agreed set of standards and agreed sharing of data, it's going to be much, much harder to get the global economy moving again."

'It's already here'

Travel industry bosses said they had not been given sufficient warning of the travel rule changes.

Clive Wratten, chief executive of the Business Travel Association, said: "The introduction of pre-departure testing with little warning is a hammer blow to the business travel industry."

"Public safety is a priority, but businesses will fail, travellers will be stranded and livelihoods devastated by the lack of coherent plans from government," he added.

Airlines UK said the change was a "premature" move that would "hit industry and passengers before we see the full data" on the effect of the Omicron variant.

The trade body added that previous experiences showed "blanket restrictions do not stop the importation of variants", adding the variant was "already here".

Travel association Abta called for the government "to step up to save jobs and businesses" and for the cost of PCR tests to be reduced.

Currently, travellers need to self-isolate until they test negative within two days of arriving into the country.

The government has said the change to the rules followed new analysis from the UK Health and Security Agency that indicated the window between infection and infectiousness may be shorter for the Omicron variant.

This increases the effectiveness of pre-departure testing as it is more likely to identify positive cases before travel, the government added.

Covid cases have been rising in the UK since the beginning of November, with 43,992 recorded on Sunday.

However, deaths and hospital admissions are falling. The UK recorded 54 deaths within 28 days of a positive test on Sunday, although the number of deaths recorded over the weekend tend to be lower because of reporting delays.

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UK Omicron cases reach 246 after 86 new infections reported, according to latest figures - Sky News

A further 86 cases of the new Omicron COVID variant have been reported in the UK, taking the total to 246.

This compares with a total of 160 yesterday - an increase of more than 50%.

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), which publishes the figures, says 18 of the cases are in Scotland, taking its total up to 48.

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The figures come as one expert told Sky News the UK could face "more stringent measures" after Christmas to counter the spread of the new variant.

Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter said the emergence of Omicron in the UK was "appalling timing" as the next few weeks are "one of the highest risk periods... with a lot of indoor socialising".

He said that the government "would love not to disrupt Christmas", but he warned: "What happens after Christmas is another matter."

Although the UK is still waiting for real-world data on the new variant, Professor Spiegelhalter, a statistician at the University of Cambridge, said that currently it does not appear to have as much of a risk of severe disease.

And he also praised the booster vaccines for "saving very large numbers of lives".

Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab also told Sky News, "the government wants people to enjoy Christmas this year", adding that employers should take a "common sense" approach to office parties.

And there are warnings the NHS will be in a "very, very difficult position" if the Omicron variant were to lead to a surge in hospital admissions.

The president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, Dr Katherine Henderson, said hospitals were already struggling to cope as they enter winter.

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"It is pretty spectacularly bad now, it will get worse - and if the new variant becomes a thing in terms of numbers and translates into hospitals admissions we are going to be in a very, very difficult position," she said.

"We will always still be there. We still want patients to come, but we do have to help people to understand that really at the moment the service is so stretched that an extra push could be very, very difficult."

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Storm Barra set to batter UK as thousands of homes still without power nine days after Storm Arwen - Sky News

The second major storm of the winter - named Barra by the Irish Met Office - is set to batter the UK on Tuesday.

Weather warnings have been issued for wind and snow as thousands of homes are still without power nine days after Storm Arwen.

Forecasters say the further bad weather may hinder efforts to reconnect properties.

Speaking during a visit to Durham, Energy Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said it was "totally unacceptable" that thousands of homes remain without power.

"It's wrong and bad for people to be off power for such a long time," he told the BBC.

"As I've said, for 99.5% of people they're back on, but for the ones that are still having to put up with this - this is unacceptable."

Mr Kwarteng added that a review will be carried out and if energy firms are found to have failed to invest in infrastructure then "there could be enforcement action".

But shadow environment secretary Jim McMahon said it "beggars belief" that the loss of power to so many homes has been not been considered a "national priority".

He told Sky News' Trevor Phillips on Sunday programme: "I firmly believe had this been the case where 20,000 properties were without power in Surrey or in London, the government would absolutely have treated it with more seriousness.

"For people in County Durham who I spoke to, they felt isolated, they felt angry and they felt forgotten."

Fresh warnings for high winds across the UK come into force from 9am on Tuesday and could mean more power supply problems and disruption to transport, the Met Office said.

A warning for snow on the same day covers the North of England and Scotland. Again the Met Office says there is a chance of power outages and a "slight chance" rural communities could be cut off.

Heavy rainfall on Saturday meant hundreds of properties that had power restored were again without supply in Northumberland, a local councillor told Sky News.

Latest national data showed 4,025 homes were without power across northern England and Scotland on Sunday, down from 4,700 homes on Saturday, according to industry body the Energy Networks Association.

Ed Miliband, the shadow climate change secretary, said it was "completely outrageous" that thousands of people have been without power for more than a week, after the storm hit on 26 November.

"People are being left in the most appalling circumstances and there has been an absence of government leadership," Mr Miliband said.

"We need an urgent investigation to understand what went wrong, and to ensure that our power systems are never again this vulnerable to extreme weather events."

Boris Johnson said he was "concerned" at the number of homes still without power as he held calls with local leaders and Lt Col Mark Steed, who is coordinating the military involvement in the response.

The prime minister tweeted: "I am grateful for the tireless efforts of the emergency teams and volunteers on the ground but remain concerned that... households are still without power.

"I reiterated to those I spoke to that the government is ready to further support their work in any way we can."

Steven Bridgett, a councillor in Rothbury in Northumberland, said about 150 properties in the area were without power on Saturday but the number had soared again after "significant rainfall and wind" overnight.

"That pretty much wiped out all of the good work that had been achieved over the last three or four days," he told Sky News.

"We're now back up to about 600 properties that are still without power.

"We've got significant surface water flooding happening in this area as well. Some of the roads are starting to flood.

"We've pretty much had constant rainfall now for 12 to 14 hours.

"It started off as snow then it progressed into heavy rainfall with wind."

Mr Bridgett praised the response from the local council and emergency services but believes a "major incident" should have been declared earlier.

He said essentials including water, batteries and logs were available for affected residents at collection points in Rothbury and Whittingham.

"We've had significant flooding, we've had significant winter storms, we've had a week with no gas - we are a pretty tough and resilient community in this area," Mr Bridgett added.

The Met Office issued yellow weather warnings for rain in parts of the north east of England and a yellow warning for snow for parts of the south east of Scotland overnight from Saturday into Sunday.

With work still ongoing to restore power, forecasters predict low temperatures of between 4C (39F) and 6C (43F) accompanied by some gale-force winds for the region over the coming days.

A band of rain and snow is expected on Monday, along with more wind.

From Tuesday, the UK is set to see continued wind, rain, and snow, with a likelihood of more strong gusts, although not as strong as Arwen, into Wednesday.

Simon Partridge, a meteorologist at the Met Office, said the expected weather conditions were "not helpful" for the work to reconnect power supplies and get to remote areas.

"It's certainly not ideal, and the higher locations certainly will be seeing some more snow in the coming days," he added.

Energy regulator Ofgem has warned it will take enforcement action against network companies which failed to restore power to customers quickly enough following the storm.

It has also agreed with firms to lift the £700 cap on compensation which could be given to customers.

The change will allow those affected to claim £70 for each 12-hour period they are left without power, after an initial £70 for the first 48 hours.

Nearly 300 military personnel from the British Army and Royal Marines were deployed to offer support and were conducting door-to-door checks on vulnerable people in their homes.

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Arthur Labinjo-Hughes: National investigation to be launched over six-year-old's murder - Sky News

There will be a national investigation into the murder of six-year-old Arthur Labinjo-Hughes.

It comes as deputy prime minister Dominic Raab told Sky News: "The most vulnerable in our society need to have the maximum protection."

The boy, from Solihull, West Midlands, was poisoned, starved and beaten by step-mother Emma Tustin, 32, and his father Thomas Hughes, 29, in a prolonged campaign of "evil abuse".

A review will look into how social services and local authorities liaise with the criminal justice system to learn the lessons from Arthur's death in June last year.

He was left with an unsurvivable brain injury while in the sole care of Tustin, with the boy's body also covered in 130 bruises.

The wider investigation will run alongside a review of the jail sentences of Arthur's step-mother and his father.

Tustin was sentenced to a minimum 29 years in prison for Arthur's murder, while Hughes was jailed for 21 years for manslaughter after encouraging the killing of his son.

The national investigation will also go beyond an independent local safeguarding review that is already under way.

Speaking to Sky News about the case, Mr Raab, who is also justice secretary and is a father of two young boys, said he "can't begin to imagine how anyone could be that cruel".

"We've had those sentences for the two parents, the Attorney General has made clear she wants to have them reviewed where we have a mechanism for doing so," he told the Trevor Phillips On Sunday show.

"There will be a local safeguarding review which will look at the local authority's actions - whether any lessons could have been picked up earlier, whether any warning flags could have been put up earlier.

"And the prime minister has made clear, as well as that, we want to see how social services and the local authorities liaise with the criminal justice agencies and what lessons further we can learn."

The Department for Education is expected to make a formal announcement of the national investigation later on Sunday.

Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi is due to make a House of Commons statement on the case on Monday.

The Sunday Times reported that a wide-ranging investigation would be expected to consider whether to introduce safeguarding guidelines for at-risk children should there be future national lockdowns.

Mr Raab told Sky News there were "multi-dimensions" to cases of child cruelty.

"There's the fact that the individuals responsible for any of this cruelty could be so callous," he said.

"There is also the local authority response. I would say that I think the social workers on the front line do an incredible job.

"As part of the pandemic response, we've invested close to £5bn in giving local authorities the support they need.

"Because one of the things we know about lockdown, whilst lots of families enjoy having more time together, for those who are the victims of domestic abuse, it has been a vey serious time, some of those risks have been magnified."

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