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| UK coronavirus live: Tory MPs call for Dominic Cummings to resign as he goes to No 10 | UK coronavirus live: Tory MPs call for Dominic Cummings to resign as he goes to No 10 |
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| Conservative MPs call for advisor to resign amid revelations of further breaches of lockdown rules | Conservative MPs call for advisor to resign amid revelations of further breaches of lockdown rules |
| British people will be able to access a coronavirus vaccine from September, the chief executive of drug maker AstraZeneca has said, despite concerns it will not be ready. | |
| Pascal Soriot told The Andrew Marr Show on Sunday that British people will get first access to the vaccine from autumn. | |
| The pharmaceutical firm, which is working with Oxford University, had previously said it has secured the first agreements for at least 400 million doses of the vaccine, PA reports. | |
| But a leading member of the project told The Sunday Telegraph the lower transmission of Covid-19 in the community leaves the trial with only a 50% chance of success. | |
| Asked if people in Britain will be among the first to get the vaccine, Soriot said: “Yes, we have actually received an order from the British Government to supply 100 million doses of vaccine, and those will go to the British people. | |
| “And there’s no doubt, starting in September, we will start delivering these doses of vaccine to the British Government for vaccination.” | |
| But Soriot went on to say the possibility of the vaccine being rolled out in autumn depended on if an Oxford University trial worked before the transmission rate lowers further. | |
| He added: “The vaccine has to work and that’s one question, and the other question is, even if it works, we have to be able to demonstrate it. | |
| “We have to run as fast as possible before the disease disappears so we can demonstrate that the vaccine is effective.” | |
| Oxford University’s Jenner Institute and the Oxford Vaccine Group began development on a vaccine in January, using a virus taken from chimpanzees. | |
| The government’s daily press conference has been delayed by an hour and will now start at 5pm. | |
| This from the BBC’s Nick Eardley: | |
| This from the Telegraph’s Tony Diver: | |
| This from the Sunday Times’s Tim Shipman: | |
| My colleague Katherine Butler just spoke to Ben, 31, a marketing manager in the music industry who’s cycled from Leytonstone to Islington to demonstrate outside Dominic Cummings’s house. | |
| He said: | |
| Freeman told the BBC: “If I had known everything I know now... we may have made different decisions”, as she reacts to claims it was “irresponsible” to send 921 untested hospital patients into care homes in March. | |
| Scotland’s health secretary Jeane Freeman issued a reminder to everyone in Scotland about the rules around self-isolation, saying the “message may have become confused in the last 24 hours because of events in other parts of the UK”. | |
| Speaking at the Scottish government’s latest coronavirus briefing in Edinburgh, she said self-isolating is not the same as lockdown and means “you should not leave the house for any reason”, the PA reports. | |
| “So let me be clear what we mean here in Scotland. Self-isolation means the following: if you think you have the virus, if you have a persistent cough, or a fever, or loss of taste and/or smell, you should self-isolate at home for a minimum of seven days, “ Freeman said. | |
| “In that time you should get tested if you can, bearing in mind that testing is now open to anyone over the age of five who has symptoms. | |
| “At the same time anyone in your household should self-isolate for 14 days to see if they develop virus, and if they do, they should self-isolate for seven days from that point. | |
| “From the eighth day, if you do not have any more symptoms you can go back, back to the lockdown measures that apply across the country.” | |
| Here is a video showing Dominic Cummings leaving his north London home earlier this morning and denying that he had travelled to Durham a second time when he was asked by reporters. | Here is a video showing Dominic Cummings leaving his north London home earlier this morning and denying that he had travelled to Durham a second time when he was asked by reporters. |
| This from the Telegraph’s Tony Diver: | This from the Telegraph’s Tony Diver: |
| This just in from the BBC’s Nick Eardley: | This just in from the BBC’s Nick Eardley: |
| The number of people who have died after testing positive for coronavirus in Northern Ireland has risen to 506 after one more death was reported by the Department of Health. | The number of people who have died after testing positive for coronavirus in Northern Ireland has risen to 506 after one more death was reported by the Department of Health. |
| The number of patients in Scotland who have died after testing positive for Covid-19 has risen by nine to 2,270, according to the latest statistics. | The number of patients in Scotland who have died after testing positive for Covid-19 has risen by nine to 2,270, according to the latest statistics. |
| Figures published by the Scottish government show the rise in the past 24 hours. | Figures published by the Scottish government show the rise in the past 24 hours. |
| The statistics indicate 15,101 people have tested positive for Covid-19, up of 60 from 15,041 the previous day. | The statistics indicate 15,101 people have tested positive for Covid-19, up of 60 from 15,041 the previous day. |
| There are 845 patients in hospital who have tested positive for Covid-19, up four from 841 on Saturday. | There are 845 patients in hospital who have tested positive for Covid-19, up four from 841 on Saturday. |
| A further 147 people, who tested positive for coronavirus have died, bringing the total number of confirmed reported deaths in hospitals in England to 25,691. | A further 147 people, who tested positive for coronavirus have died, bringing the total number of confirmed reported deaths in hospitals in England to 25,691. |
| Patients were aged between 43 and 98 years old, according to NHS England. | Patients were aged between 43 and 98 years old, according to NHS England. |
| Five of the 147 patients, aged between 46 and 84, had no known underlying health condition. | Five of the 147 patients, aged between 46 and 84, had no known underlying health condition. |
| Former Labour MP for Bishop Auckland Helen Goodman, whose father died in a care home, said she found the behaviour of Dominic Cummings “incredible”. | Former Labour MP for Bishop Auckland Helen Goodman, whose father died in a care home, said she found the behaviour of Dominic Cummings “incredible”. |
| Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s The World This Weekend, she said: “What was the point of the sacrifice that we all made? What was the point of the miserable, lonely death that my father had? I just find it utterly repellent.” | Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s The World This Weekend, she said: “What was the point of the sacrifice that we all made? What was the point of the miserable, lonely death that my father had? I just find it utterly repellent.” |
| Asked if she was tempted to break the lockdown to see her gravely ill father, she said: “Yes of course, of course, everybody was just wresting with these intolerable dilemmas. | Asked if she was tempted to break the lockdown to see her gravely ill father, she said: “Yes of course, of course, everybody was just wresting with these intolerable dilemmas. |
| “I think the cabinet ministers are utterly craven to excuse and exonerate him. | “I think the cabinet ministers are utterly craven to excuse and exonerate him. |
| Asked if Cummings should stay, she said: “Of course he shouldn’t, there’s no question that he shouldn’t. He’s undermined the public health campaign that they’ve been running – trying to run – for the last two months. | Asked if Cummings should stay, she said: “Of course he shouldn’t, there’s no question that he shouldn’t. He’s undermined the public health campaign that they’ve been running – trying to run – for the last two months. |
| “I think it’s incredibly destructive – not just the act in itself, but the defence of the act, I think it’s incredibly destructive.” | “I think it’s incredibly destructive – not just the act in itself, but the defence of the act, I think it’s incredibly destructive.” |
| This from ITV’s Robert Peston: | This from ITV’s Robert Peston: |
| A protest group has appeared outside Dominic Cummings’ north London home, PA Media reports. | A protest group has appeared outside Dominic Cummings’ north London home, PA Media reports. |
| Political campaign group Led by Donkeys drove to Cummings’s home in a van displaying a video of Boris Johnson’s speech to the country, warning the public to stay at home. | Political campaign group Led by Donkeys drove to Cummings’s home in a van displaying a video of Boris Johnson’s speech to the country, warning the public to stay at home. |
| Boris Johnson offered his “full support” to his chief adviser after the news emerged. | Boris Johnson offered his “full support” to his chief adviser after the news emerged. |
| Led by Donkeys also put up a separate installation on Westminster Bridge Road on Friday. | Led by Donkeys also put up a separate installation on Westminster Bridge Road on Friday. |
| Posting a photo of the billboard, which reads “Stay alert, Government incompetence costs lives”, the group said: “When the PM’s top adviser is criss-crossing the country with coronavirus, it’s definitely time to stay alert.” | Posting a photo of the billboard, which reads “Stay alert, Government incompetence costs lives”, the group said: “When the PM’s top adviser is criss-crossing the country with coronavirus, it’s definitely time to stay alert.” |