Tuesday Update

UK, 12th April, Next stage in roadmap

Prof Graham Medley, Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies

Eventual indoor, highly likely resurgence in hospitalisations and deaths

It really just depends upon the impact of vaccination, particularly on transmission, so whether or not people can get infected and pass the virus on.

And we just don't know that

The only thing we can be sure of is that we don't know exactly what is going to happen

but we do know that, because the vaccine isn't 100% effective, there will be some transmission,

and there will be some breakthrough of immunity."

Face space after 21 June?

Moderan and Janssen

Nadhim Zahawi, third week of April

More volume in May

We have got the Janssen vaccine coming through as well

2 teste a week each

False positive rate about 1 in a 1,000

Paid for as part of NHS Test and Trace's funding of £37bn over two years

80% of that for testing

Covid passports

Certificates soonish

Mobile app, could be autumn

Test, infection (180 days), vaccination

Danish company, Mr Gove in charge

Football Wembley in London, World Snooker Championship in Sheffield, a nightclub and comedy club in

Liverpool, Hertfordshire run

Nadhim Zahawi, Vaccines Minister

It's only right that we look at all these options that are available to us to take our lives back

provide reassurance

Commons vote

France

Population, 67 million

Paris, third wave

Health Minister Olivier Veran

Infections will peak mid-April

Hospital admissions will increase until end of April

Paris, ITU by end of April, 2,800-4,400

First wave it peaked at 2,700

Triage

Jordan Nahoum, Hospital René Dubos, Paris suburbs, hospital’s 32 ICU beds full

Eastern Europe

Poland

Population, 38 million

Highest number of new infections ever

Strict lockdown last year, now eased

Schools, shops and businesses now closed again

Churches, limited numbers for Easter

UK variant

Silesia, patients airlifted out

Demand for vaccination very high

Hungary

High mortality rate

Population, 9.7 million

High rates of cancer and heart disease

High fatality rate in people needing ventilation

Government bought 16,000 ventilators last summer

25% shortage of doctors

30% shortage of nurses

Emigration.

5,500 doctors quit last month

About 20% vaccinated

Sputnik V and Sinopharm

Ukraine

Population, 44.4 million

Mounting pressure on hospitals

Kyiv, essential shops, schools closed, public transport limited

Vaccine rollout, limited

First dose, 250,000 (AZ)

50% vaccine hesitancy

Slovakia

Population, 5.5 million

Igor Matovic stepped down, secret, deal for two million doses of Sputnik V

Switched jobs with Finance Minister

First dose, 15%

Czech Republic

Population, 10.7 million

Prague Town Square, 25,000 white crosses