End of lockdown? UK's Johnson mulls path out after 15 million vaccinated

By Guy Faulconbridge and Kate Holton

 

FILE PHOTO: Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson, wearing a face mask to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), visits a PPE manufacturing facility, in Seaton Delaval, Britain, February 13, 2021. Scott Heppell/Pool via REUTERS

 

LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will judge this week how fast England can exit COVID-19 lockdown after vaccinating 15 million of its most vulnerable people, but the health minister said death and hospital admission numbers were still too high.

 

With nearly a quarter of the United Kingdom's population now inoculated with a first dose of a COVID vaccine in a little over two months, Johnson is under pressure from some lawmakers and businesses to reopen the shuttered economy.

"We've got to watch the data," Health Secretary Matt Hancock told Sky News. "Everybody wants to get out of this as quickly as we safely can, and both as quickly, but also as safely, are important."

 

"The question is a judgement of how quickly and safely, how quickly we can do that safely. That's the judgment that we're making this week, looking at the data, ahead of the prime minister setting out the roadmap, on the 22nd," he said.

 

The biggest and swiftest global vaccine rollout in history is seen as the best chance of exiting the COVID-19 pandemic which has killed 2.4 million people, tipped the global economy into its worst peacetime slump since the Great Depression and upended normal life for billions.

 

Britain has vaccinated 15.062 million people with a first dose and 537,715 with a second dose, the fastest rollout per capita of any large country.

 

VACCINE CERTIFICATES

Hancock said the British government was speaking to other countries across the world about giving British people certificates showing they had been vaccinated so that they could travel abroad in the future to countries that require them.

 

"There is this international work going on because if other countries require (proof of vaccination) we want to allow Brits to be able to travel to those countries," Hancock said.

 

"We'd want to be able to facilitate that sort of vaccine certification, but it isn't anything we're planning to introduce here," he said, adding that a so-called vaccine passport was not something that would be required to access services in the UK.

The United Kingdom has the world's fifth-worst official death toll - currently 117,166 - after the United States, Brazil, Mexico and India.

 

A new COVID-19 hotel quarantine system for arrivals from 33 "red list" countries, intended to limit the spread of new variants of the virus, appears to be working smoothly a few hours after it was introduced, Hancock said.

 

"As of 6.30, when I got my latest update, this is working smoothly, we've been working with the airports and with the border force to make sure everybody knows the process," Hancock told Times Radio.

 

(Reporting by Guy Faulconbridge and Kate Holton; Editing by James Davey and Peter Graff)

 

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you got a jump on the world with vaxes, don't screw it up. The bleating needs to be ignored for the betterment of all.. 

So no health ' passport'  which could make it difficult ( or painful - ASQ) to return here to los. That leaves us with paying for it here and a possible passport...but at the end of the queue...OK, roll on 2030.

Tomorrow is fine.

They <deleted> it up anyway, can't get any worse.

Isn't it about time there will actually be a school to attend to if you want to become a politician ?

I mean if my sewer system in my house has problems I expect a trained/qualified plumber to fix the problem, not some housewife or whatever other unqualified person.

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2 hours ago, spiekerjozef said:

Isn't it about time there will actually be a school to attend to if you want to become a politician ?

They already have them in the UK; they are called Eton and Oxbridge!

Over 15million,thank god were out of the EU, otherwise the figure would have been nearer 1million. 

Just tell ‘em what you think they want to hear Boris, you can claim whatever you say ia figure of speech when you do a U-turn.

He has done a great vaccine job so far but ultimately put my money where his mouth is as usual. now its down to the Bullingdon club before Peppa legs it to celebrate ????

That would be great but this is a false dawn. Dr Fauchi says that the lockdown will go on until the whole world is vaccinated, estimated 2024-2025.

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/it-will-take-until-2024-for-everyone-to-get-a-covid-19-vaccine-why-so-long/ar-BB19cSmQ

 

In other news, Bill Gates says tackling climate change will be even more demanding.

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/it-will-take-until-2024-for-everyone-to-get-a-covid-19-vaccine-why-so-long/ar-BB19cSmQ

 

"Are you ready for the climate lockdowns?"

 

https://spectator.us/topic/ready-climate-lockdowns-environment/

 

2 hours ago, nemo38 said:

That would be great but this is a false dawn. Dr Fauchi says that the lockdown will go on until the whole world is vaccinated, estimated 2024-2025.

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/it-will-take-until-2024-for-everyone-to-get-a-covid-19-vaccine-why-so-long/ar-BB19cSmQ

 

 

 

Thanks for the way out-of-date article.

2 hours ago, nemo38 said:

In other news, Bill Gates says tackling climate change will be even more demanding.

Have you seen the winter state of emergency in Texas? I don't suppose the Global Warming summit will be in Texas anytime soon will it... lol. What is likely more demanding is attempting to carry on the "inconvenient truth" that there is no global warming occurring right now. Polar bears are still there, Mount Kilimanjaro still has ice, and all those typhoons that were going to wipe out all the coastal areas I guess are simply FROZEN in time... remember the end of the world was coming in 2016? Ha ha!!

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/02/15/texas-declares-state-emergency-dangerous-winter-storm-causes/

2 hours ago, sammieuk1 said:

He has done a great vaccine job so far but ultimately put my money where his mouth is as usual. now its down to the Bullingdon club before Peppa legs it to celebrate ????

The NHS has done a brilliant job in spite of Johnson, who would prefer it to be broken up and sold off.

8 minutes ago, Freeduhdum said:

Have you seen the winter state of emergency in Texas? I don't suppose the Global Warming summit will be in Texas anytime soon will it... lol. What is likely more demanding is attempting to carry on the "inconvenient truth" that there is no global warming occurring right now. Polar bears are still there, Mount Kilimanjaro still has ice, and all those typhoons that were going to wipe out all the coastal areas I guess are simply FROZEN in time... remember the end of the world was coming in 2016? Ha ha!!

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/02/15/texas-declares-state-emergency-dangerous-winter-storm-causes/

Obsessed much? Allow me to remind you what this thread is supposed to be about: 

End of lockdown? UK's Johnson mulls path out after 15 million vaccinated

3 hours ago, sammieuk1 said:

He has done a great vaccine job so far

You seriously think any of it was down to him?

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1 hour ago, mrfill said:

The NHS has done a brilliant job in spite of Johnson, who would prefer it to be broken up and sold off.

There’s time yet.

1 minute ago, Chomper Higgot said:

There’s time yet.

Ministers putting themselves in charge of the NHS does not bode well.

2 hours ago, mrfill said:

The NHS has done a brilliant job in spite of Johnson, who would prefer it to be broken up and sold off.

where is the evidence he wants to break it up and sell it off?

3 minutes ago, Orton Rd said:

where is the evidence he wants to break it up and sell it off?

Tory MPs rip out NHS protections from trade bill

"Conservative MPs have ripped out an amendment to the government's trade bill to prevent the NHS being sold off or undermined by the government's trade deals with other countries.

The House of Lords had last month inserted a clause banning any agreement that “undermines or restricts” the UK's ability to provide “a comprehensive publicly funded health service free at the point of delivery”.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nhs-trade-deal-protections-sell-off-b1789867.html

1 minute ago, placeholder said:

Tory MPs rip out NHS protections from trade bill

"Conservative MPs have ripped out an amendment to the government's trade bill to prevent the NHS being sold off or undermined by the government's trade deals with other countries.

The House of Lords had last month inserted a clause banning any agreement that “undermines or restricts” the UK's ability to provide “a comprehensive publicly funded health service free at the point of delivery”.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nhs-trade-deal-protections-sell-off-b1789867.html

Got a feeling he might regret asking that question....555...don't you just hate it when people provide evidence.

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