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Government advises against travel inside and outside of English Indian variants hotspots
NHS offers jab for people aged 32 and 33, but some Sheffield GPs are already vaccinating people in their 20s
Downing Street said the World Health Organization’s investigation into the origins of the pandemic should ‘explore all possible theories’, following reports that workers at the Wuhan virology lab were treated in hospital from November 2019.
Downing Street said the World Health Organization’s investigation into the origins of the pandemic should ‘explore all possible theories’, following reports that workers at the Wuhan virology lab were treated in hospital from November 2019.
A US intelligence report said three researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) requested hospital care a month before China reported the first cases of what has come to be known as Covid -19, reported the Wall Street Journal.
Asked about the report, the Prime Minister’s official spokesperson said: “The WHO investigation into the origins of the virus is ongoing and we have always been clear that it must be robust, transparent and independent.
“The investigation must explore all possible theories as to how Covid-19 made this leap from animals to humans and how it spread and this is vital to ensure we learn lessons from this crisis and prevent a another global pandemic. ”
Asked if the report suggested the possibility of a virus leak from the lab, the spokesperson said: ‘We want the WHO investigation to go thoroughly and be conducted properly and then pass judgment. from there. ”
Paul Charles, managing director of travel consultancy The PC Agency, told the PA news agency: “Many people can travel safely and responsibly to an Amber Country to see a family they don’t have. haven’t seen for more than a year, or to do business. , or visit a second property they may have.
“It is essential that consumers are aware that they will have to pay for testing and self-isolate upon their return to the UK, but it is safe to travel to an Orange country and is by no means illegal.
“The travel industry is struggling to recover and needs to see more countries added to the government’s green list.”
On Twitter, Charles pointed to data from Cirium analysts suggesting that airlines had scheduled significantly more flights from England in the past five days.
The three most popular destinations are Spain (284 flights, 56,000 seats), Greece (150 flights, 29,000 seats) and the United States (128 flights, 34,000 seats).
But he added: “The planes are far from full.”
Asked about the UK’s stance on Amber List countries, Fernando Valdes, Spain’s tourism minister, told Sky News he “doesn’t judge how countries are taking care of the health situation.”
But he suggested Spain could be added to the green list during the next government review.
He said: “What I can say is that right now Spain is making a big effort not only in terms of vaccination, we have at least a third of our entire population with at least one dose… but also we have holiday destinations which are popular with UK tourists such as the Balearic Islands, Costa Blanca or Malaga, with our notification rates which are quite low and by the same UK notification range so I have to suspect that in the next review that the UK government may provide… Spain will change its notification.
The British have been urged not to travel to Spain after Madrid opened the doors to British tourists.
But the country remains on the government’s ‘orange list’, which means returning people will have to take a series of Covid-19 tests and self-isolate at home.
Business Minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan told Sky News: “The Prime Minister has made it clear that, for now, amber means’ please don’t leave unless he there is an urgent family reason and so on ‘because we are always trying to slowly go through our roadmap to be able to open on June 21 and we want to do it on a regular and careful basis.
She added that “we very much hope that obviously the orange numbers will turn greener in due course” but “for now, today, that means the orange countries are really not sure where to go”.
Government Minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan told Times Radio: “The reality is that right now the amber countries still do not meet the criteria for our scientists to say they should be green.
“So the recommendation remains: don’t leave unless you have to and remember that if you do go you will have to quarantine yourself for 10 days and this will be monitored.”
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Source: www.thestar.co.uk
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