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A coronavirus vaccine can be accelerated as an unlicensed drug before the end of the year based on new government plans.
The proposals would allow the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) to grant transitority authorization before a full licence is approved.
More health care staff, as well as nursing students and physical therapists, may also be trained to administer vaccines. The new measures are expected to come into force in October.
Professor Jonathan Van-Tam, England’s deputy medical director, said: “The proposals consulted today recommend tactics to improve access and ensure that so many other people as you can imagine are protected from COVID-19 and influenza without sacrificing the absolute desire to make sure that any vaccine used is safe and effective.”
Downing Street is also preparing to launch a media crusade to inspire staff to return to their offices in the face of the closure of department stores in city cities and city centers.
However, Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s prime minister, said it would not help any plan to “intimidate others into working again” during the pandemic before workers return safely.
Meanwhile, France faces a new blockade after its ministry of fitness said that the new instances were expanding “exponentially” and that hospitalizations and extensive care admissions were also expanding.
President Emmanuel Macron said his government would do “everything possible” to avoid reimposing nationwide restrictions but admitted it could not be ruled out.
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Government launches media crusade to encourage staff to return to their offices
The government is about to launch a media crusade next week to inspire staff to return to offices to save in city cities and centers.
Ministers are concerned that previously occupied centres will become ghost areas, as many staff members remain at home.
Labour criticized the plans as “unacceptable,” while the CBI said any throwback to paintings involves a “hybrid” technique to avoid forcing others to return to their offices.
“That doesn’t mean the government is threatening other people like this with a pandemic.It is unacceptable to force others to decide between their fitness and their work,” said Lucy Powell, the Shadow Minister of the Labour Party.
“Number 10 condemns this report and categorically rules out such a campaign.”
Ms. Carolyn Fairbairn, Executive Director of CBI, said a hybrid technique with paints of houses and workplaces would be the way forward to achieve “the most productive of both worlds.”
A government spokesman said the government had “worked closely” with employers to ensure the pandemic.
“Next week we’ll bring the benefits of going back to paintings and making companies aware that it’s good,” they said.
“We will also provide the practical steps companies take to ensure offices are secured through Covid, as well as other tactics to get to work.”
Czech Republic, Switzerland and Jamaica join UK quarantine list
Tourists once faced each other again in the rush to return to the UK after the Czech Republic, Switzerland and Jamaica joined the UK quarantine list.
Grant Shapps, the shipping secretary, announced Thursday that others arriving in England from those countries after 4 p.m. on Saturday would have to be isolated for four days.
The Department of Transport (DfT) said measures were being put in place in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Meanwhile, relief in coronavirus cases in Cuba means that the country has been added to the list of destinations that other people can without having to be quarantined in England or Wales.
Pret a Manger axis 2800 jobs after undergoing a complete restructuring in the UK
Pret a Manger has announced that it will remove 2,800 seats from its retail outlets after completing a restructuring of its UK operations.
The coffee and sandwich chain, which once had more than 450 sites across the UK, struggled to gain ground for the coronavirus pandemic, and the industry fell by 60% year-on-year.
In a restructuring, Pano Christou, the company’s CEO, suggested to the government that it continue to help the sector “for as long as possible.”
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Quarantine regulations can continue to replace ‘very quickly’, the minister warns
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps warned British tourists that self-isolation regulations can continue to be temporarily replaced after 3 more countries have been added to the UK’s quarantine list.
“Look, there’s a list of brokers and I think it probably still comprises about 55, 60 countries,” Shapps told Sky News.
“It fits every week – a country has continued – Cuba continued – yesterday’s list, or continues on the weekend.”
He added: “However, when other people arrive at the moment when the coronavirus is still aArray thing … you just have to be aware that unfortunately things can be replaced very temporarily and, you know, if you go by with your eyes open and you know that things can replace, then it may no longer be a marvel.
“Although, as I said, countries are evolving very fast.”
Shapps admits ‘challenges’ to attract more people to public transport
Grant Shapps admitted that more people who use the transport formula on their return to the paintings “it is clear that it is not without challenges.”
BBC Breakfast asked the shipping secretary if the shipping formula was good and safe enough for more staff during the pandemic.
He said, “Yes, it is clear that it has no challenges, but we are strengthening it to bring back the shipping formula and, in particular, by installing more buses adapted to returning schoolchildren in many cases.”
Shapps added: “What I found, what I have a tendency to locate Array …in London, they’re a little busier. They’re about 40 or 50 cents from where they were.Out of town, they have a tendency to be less busy.
“The most important thing is to make sure that there is still enough social distance there with the one-meter plus rule [rule] that there will actually be on the lines outside London.”
Parents ‘calm down’ by examining the appearance of low coronavirus threat in children, says researcher
A teacher who is part of the sage government’s advisory organization said parents are “calmed” through an exam that appears to have not killed healthy schoolchildren.
The study, published in BMJ, assessed 651 young people with Covid-19s in hospitals in England, Wales and Scotland and found that the threat posed by the virus to young people was “minimal”.
”We observed about two-thirds of all hospital admissions in England, Scotland and Wales during the first wave of the pandemic, so we looked at another 69,500 people attending, I think, 280 hospitals’, said Professor Calum Semple at the University of Liverpool. . BBC Radio 4 Today Programme.
“And when we looked very carefully and did all the numbers, we found that of those 69,500 young people, there were 650 young people, so 1% of the hospitalizations were young.
“And then of that 1 per cent, only six children died.”
Professor Semple added, “Now, those deaths are a massive, non-public tragedy, of course, but it’s generally quite reassuring.”
Watchdog takes steps in hospital after patients with coronavirus
The care management agency has taken steps to oppose a scandal-s facing hospital following a large number of coronavirus infections in its wards.
The East Kent University Hospitals Trust warned through the Commission on Quality of Care that it must take urgent action after inspectors discovered that patients in the wards were at risk of contracting Covid-19.
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Ask for a government fund of 270 million pounds for personal tenants
The government has been suggested to help personal tenants with a 270 million-pound fund to help resolve hiring arrears for the coronavirus pandemic.
A coalition of landlords, rental agents and charities said at least 322,000 personal tenants had fallen on bills in recent months, and Shelter’s chief executive warned that a “devastating homeless crisis” could occur.
“This unique opportunity to provide emergency assistance to the neediesiesiesies over needy tenants can’t be missed,” Polly Neate said.
Tenants were protected by the Covid-19 epidemic through a recent prolonged eviction ban.
Shelter, the National Association of HomeOwners, ARLA Propertymark, Crisis, Citizens Advice and Generation Rent said the fund would benefit tenants who have been fired or who have been fired.
Financial assistance can come with limited council grants to tenants who already get interest-free allowances and loans for tenants who will have to pay rent after the crisis.
“Ever since this pandemic gripped hold of the country, causing chaos for hundreds of thousands of renters, our services have been deluged with calls from worried families and workers plunged unexpectedly into debt,” Ms Neate added.
“When the ban lifts, their ability to clear Covid arrears will be critical if they are to stay safe in their homes.
“We simply cannot afford to lurch into another devastating homelessness crisis now that will ruin countless lives and undermine the country’s economic recovery.”
Nine out of 10 people want to continue working from home, report finds
Nine out of 10 people in the UK who have worked from home during lockdown want to continue doing so, according to new research.
The report, Homeworking in the UK: before and during the 2020 lockdown, is thought to be the first to analyse survey data focused on homeworking during the pandemic.
It said working from home in the UK rose from 6 per cent of employees before the start of the pandemic up to 43 per cent in April, with results indicating that productivity mostly remained stable compared with the six months before.
Its publication comes as the UK government is set to encourage workers to return to offices amid concerns of the impact of homeworking on cities and towns.
The report, by academics at Cardiff University and the University of Southampton, said 88 per cent of employees who worked at home during lockdown would like to continue doing so in some capacity, with 47 per cent wanting to do so often or all the time.
About two-fifths (41 per cent) said they got as much work done at home as they did six months earlier when most, but not all, were in their usual places of work.
More than a quarter (29 per cent) said they got more work done at home, while 30 per cent said their productivity had fallen.
Professor Alan Felstead, based at Cardiff University and the Wales Institute of Social & Economic Research, Data & Methods (WISERD), said the results suggested there could be a “major shift” from the traditional workplace.
“What is particularly striking is that many of those who have worked at home during lockdown would like to continue to work in this way, even when social distancing rules do not require them to,” Professor Felstead said.
“These people are among the most productive, so preventing them from choosing how they work in the future does not make economic sense.
“Giving employees flexibility on where they work could be extremely beneficial for companies as they attempt to recover from the impact of Covid-19.”
The report analysed data gathered for the Understanding Society Covid-19 Study, comprising three surveys by the Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex, in April to June.
It questioned a representative sample of 6,000-7,000 workers who had worked at least one hour in the week before interview, and who provided information on where they worked either side of the lockdown.
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