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| UK coronavirus live: Boris Johnson to lead No 10 briefing at 5pm amid calls for Dominic Cummings to go | UK coronavirus live: Boris Johnson to lead No 10 briefing at 5pm amid calls for Dominic Cummings to go |
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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 |
| Guy Verhofstadt, the Belgian member of European parliament, has weighed into the Dominic Cummings saga by tweeting his approval of the following Sunday Times cartoon: | |
| Network Rail has urged potential passengers who do not need to travel to work or for emergencies to avoid taking trains during the bank holiday. | |
| The already drastically reduced national train service is undergoing a major overhaul over the long weekend with 490 upgrading projects taking place, it said. | |
| Find out more in this report from my colleague Henry McDonald: | |
| UK faces backlog of 400,000 criminal cases due to coronavirus | |
| Barristers have warned that the UK’s criminal justice system is facing a backlog of 40,000 cases due to the coronavirus crisis, Owen Bowcott reports: | |
| Here is the full report: | |
| An arson investigation has been launched after a 5G mobile phone mast was torched, PA Media reports. | |
| Derbyshire police appealed for witnesses after the fire brigade were called to the blaze off Scarborough Drive in the Chaddesden area of Derby at 2am on Sunday. | |
| In a statement, the force said: | |
| It follows more than 50 incidents nationwide, believed to be linked to false claims the 5G network is spreading coronavirus. | |
| The attacks prompted action from Twitter and Facebook to crack down on accounts pushing “unverified claims”. | |
| One MP, who launched a fact-checking service, also called for a law to be introduced to stop persistent spreaders of disinformation online. | |
| The Conservative MP Damian Collins, who set up Infotagion to combat falsehoods during the pandemic, said: | |
| Scotland’s first minister Nicola Sturgeon tweeted the following in connection with growing calls for Dominic Cummings to step down as chief strategist. | |
| This is Aaron Walawalkar, taking over from my colleague Jedidajah Otte, as the clock ticks down to the daily coronavirus press briefing at 5pm today. As always, please message me any of your UK coronavirus updates on Twitter @AaronWala. | |
| Here’s is a selection of health workers’ reactions to the Dominic Cummings scandal on Twitter. | |
| From cardiology registrar Dr Dominic Pimenta: | |
| From consultant and emergency medicine lecturer Dr Farbod: | |
| From anaesthetic registrar Natalie Silvey: | |
| From palliative care doctor Rachel Clarke: | |
| Downing Street has confirmed that Boris Johnson will be leading the government’s press conference today at 5pm, instead of housing minister Robert Jenrick, who had been previously announced. | Downing Street has confirmed that Boris Johnson will be leading the government’s press conference today at 5pm, instead of housing minister Robert Jenrick, who had been previously announced. |
| I am now handing over to my colleage Aaron Walawalkar. | I am now handing over to my colleage Aaron Walawalkar. |
| This from Joe Pike from Sky News: | This from Joe Pike from Sky News: |
| Here a clip featuring the former chief constable of Durham police Mike Barton during a BBC interview this afternoon, in which he calls out Cummings’ behaviour as a clear breach of the rules. | Here a clip featuring the former chief constable of Durham police Mike Barton during a BBC interview this afternoon, in which he calls out Cummings’ behaviour as a clear breach of the rules. |
| My colleague Vikram Dodd spoke to Barton earlier. | My colleague Vikram Dodd spoke to Barton earlier. |
| This from my colleague Toby Helm: | This from my colleague Toby Helm: |
| 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. | 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 BBC’s Andrew Marr Show on Sunday that British people will get first access to the vaccine from autumn. | Pascal Soriot told the BBC’s 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 Media reports. | 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 Media 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. | 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 would 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. | Asked if people in Britain would 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.” | “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. | 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. | 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.” | “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. | 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. | 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 BBC’s Nick Eardley: |
| This from the Telegraph’s Tony Diver: | This from the Telegraph’s Tony Diver: |
| This from the Sunday Times’s Tim Shipman: | 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. | 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: | 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. | 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. |