Health

Germany has become the latest country to approve the AstraZeneca vaccine in people over 65

Chief Executive and General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing Professor Dame Donna Kinnair joined us from Hackney in east London.

They have spent the last year on the frontline of the Covid crisis – risking their own lives to save others.

As most of us look ahead to a life without Covid, we’ve been speaking to some of the people who feel like normality is still a long way off.

We speak with Carlie, an ITU nurse, and Bash, a porter. Both work at Warwick Hospital.

France has performed a stunning reversal as it declared its older citizens can now be given the Oxford AstraZeneca Covid vaccine. Last month the jab was restricted solely to the under-65s.

In one academy in Nottingham, as many as 50 per cent of parents are trying to stop their children being tested.

In an intensive care unit at Warwick Hospital, where the number of patients has dropped dramatically in the past fortnight, those that are here are still very sick.

Professor Peter Openshaw is chair of experimental medicine at Imperial College and sits on the government’s NERVTAG advisory group.

Boris Johnson has defended the UK’s border and quarantine measures, as officials continue to search for a person infected with the new Brazilian variant of the virus before hotel quarantine was introduced.

We have spent the week at Warwick Hospital, a small district general, talking to the staff about their year – what they have seen, how they have coped, and what their hopes are now. 

Is Israel’s vaccination programme a sign of hope for Britain?

We were joined by Conservative MP Anthony Browne and Labour MP Abena Oppong Asare

Three cases of the Brazilian variant have been confirmed in Scotland and three in England

We were joined by the economist Miatta Fahnbulleh, who’s chief executive of the New Economics Foundation think tank.