Health Secretary Matt Hancock will lead a Downing Street press conference this afternoon. He will be accompanied by NHS England's Professor Stephen Powis and England's chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty for the latest coronavirus briefing.

The Health Secretary will likely face questions on the rollout of the coronavirus vaccination after the UK became the first country in the world to start inoculating patients against Covid-19.

Care home residents and staff and elderly patients began to receive jab on Tuesday after the UK's regulator approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for public use.

NHS workers are next in line followed by the over-75s, then the over-70s and people who are clinically extremely vulnerable The first wave of

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COLOMBO (News 1st): The issuance of medicines, laboratory and radiology services at Government Hospitals will not be carried out on Monday (Feb. 14) as well, due to the ongoing strike action of the Health Trade Unions.The health workers are continuing their island-wide trade union action for the 8th consecutive day; the strike was launched citing several issues including salary anomalies.As a result of the strike action, various health services including the vaccinations and services offered by the Public Health Inspectors (PHIs) are no longer available.The trade union action is being carried out against the backdrop of the Colombo District Court issuing an interim order to suspend the strike immediately.According to News 1st correspondents, patients have been severely inconvenienced due to the strike action.

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Covid-19 linked to the faster spread of the virus will fail to respond to a vaccine, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.Hancock told MPs at least 60 different local authorities in England have recorded coronavirus infections caused by this new variant.The World Health Organisation (WHO) has been notified and it is currently being examined at Porton Down, the UK’s military research facility in Wiltshire.Many people on social media are worried the Pfizer vaccine will not work against the new variant, citing the fact that people get seasonal flu jabs to fight off new variants.But Hancock said there was “nothing to suggest” it was a worse strain or that vaccine would no longer work.It comes after it was announced that London and parts of

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0

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