Education Secretary and former vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi has said any plans to cut the Covid self-isolation period to five days are still under review. People who test positive for Covid are required to self-isolate for seven days, but several sectors are experiencing staffing pressure. He told the BBC any reduction in isolation would have … Read more
The UK’s former vaccines minister says reducing the quarantine period would ease staff pressures. Source link
The Omicron variant accounts for a third of the coronavirus cases in London, Nadhim Zahawi has said. Speaking to the BBC’s Andrew Marr, the former vaccines minister turned education secretary said hospitals were now seeing patients infected with the new variant. He said it was “much more infectious” than the current dominant variant in the … Read more
England is moving from “you must” wear a mask to “you are expected to”, the vaccines minister says. Source link
Boris Johnson has announced that the UK will donate at least 100 million vaccine doses to other countries within the next year. The first doses will be delivered within a few weeks. Speaking before the G7 summit, Mr Johnson said it was a “colossal number of doses.” President Biden has promised half a billion doses … Read more
The vaccines being used appear to work well against dominant variants in the UK, Nadhim Zahawi says. Source link
Nadhim Zahawi will oversee distributing the vaccine in England until at least summer 2021. Source link