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  • Nicola Sturgeon under pressure over 400,000 unused vaccine doses and far faster English roll-out

    Nicola Sturgeon is facing mounting anger over Scotland's slow vaccine roll-out after it emerged her government has more than 400,000 unused doses and England's deployment was almost twice as fast last weekend. The First Minister on Monday disclosed that 264,991 people north of the Border have been given their first dose but The Telegraph understands her government has now been handed more than 700,000 doses from the UK's supplies. A daily average of 13,383 Scots were vaccinated with their first dose between Friday and Sunday, but this represented a drop on the average of around 16,000 recorded in previous days. A yawning gap started to open up with England, where 750,892 people were vaccinated for the first time over the same period, meaning its roll-out was almost twice as fast taking into account its larger population size. Matt Hancock, the UK Health Secretary, said more than four million people had now received their first dose across the UK and vaccinations were happening at more than double the rate per person of anywhere else in Europe. More than five million people in England aged 70 and over, as well as the clinically extremely vulnerable, will begin receiving offers of a coronavirus vaccine this week in areas where the majority of over-80s have already been treated. Ms Sturgeon insisted this group in Scotland would receive appointments "later in January", despite GP leaders complaining that "patchy" supply of the vaccine means they cannot book in many of their patients aged over 80. Dr Gregor Smith, Scotland's chief medical officer, said vaccine was "going out to those GP practices as fast as it's coming into Scotland" and that supply would ramp up over the coming weeks.

  • Woman who 'took laptop' from Pelosi's office in Capitol riot 'planned to sell it to Russian spies'

    A woman identified as having taken part in the storming of the US Capitol is accused of stealing a laptop belonging to top Democrat Nancy Pelosi which she hoped to sell to a Russian spy agency, according to the FBI. There is no indication Riley June Williams, a 22-year-old careworker from Pennsylvania, took a laptop from Ms Pelosi's office. The FBI, which is working off a tip, said in the court record the "matter remains under investigation." The complaint, filed late Sunday in US District Court in Washington, sought the arrest of Williams on grounds including "violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds." Relying on several photos and videos of the chaotic January 6 riot, an FBI agent said Williams was seen near the office of Ms Pelosi, US House Speaker. A witness, identified in the court document only as W1 but who claimed to be "the former romantic partner of Riley June Williams," alleged that Williams planned to send the laptop to a friend in Russia to sell it to the SVR foreign intelligence agency. That sale "fell through for unknown reasons, and Williams still has the computer device or destroyed it," the affidavit says.

  • Pfizer vaccine may prevent transmission of coronavirus to others, Israeli study suggests

    Pfizer vaccine recipients are unlikely to transmit the virus to others, according to the author of an Israeli study. Participants in the survey developed up to 20 times more antibodies within a week of receiving the second dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine. The survey, which reviewed data from 102 of about 1,000 of the Sheba Medical Centre’s medical staff who have received both shots, showed that only two subjects have developed low amounts of antibodies - one of the subjects suffered from a compromised immune system. There was no explanation for why the second person did not develop antibodies, and the hospital said it was investigating the matter. The rest - 98 per cent - have developed levels of antibodies that were even higher than patients who have recovered from a serious coronavirus-induced condition, the hospital said in a statement released on Monday.

  • Joe Biden to block Donald Trump's plan to lift Covid-19 UK travel restrictions

    US President-elect Joe Biden plans to quickly extend travel restrictions barring travel by most people who have recently been in the UK and much of Europe and Brazil soon after President Donald Trump lifted those requirements effective from Jan. 26. Mr Trump signed an order Monday lifting the restrictions he imposed early last year in response to the pandemic after winning support from coronavirus task force members and public health officials. Soon after Mr Trump's order was made public, Biden spokeswoman Jen Psaki tweeted "on the advice of our medical team, the Administration does not intend to lift these restrictions on 1/26." She added: "With the pandemic worsening, and more contagious variants emerging around the world, this is not the time to be lifting restrictions on international travel." Until Mr Biden acts, Mr Trump's order ends restrictions the same day that new Covid-19 test requirements take effect for all international visitors. Mr Trump is due to leave office on Wednesday. Last week, the head of the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention signed an order requiring nearly all air travellers to present a negative coronavirus test or proof of recovery from Covid-19 to enter the United States starting on Jan. 26. The restrictions Mr Trump rescinded have barred nearly all non-US citizens who within the last 14 days have been in Brazil, the United Kingdom, Ireland and the 26 countries of the Schengen area in Europe that allow travel across open borders. The US restrictions barring most visitors from Europe have been in place since mid-March when Mr Trump signed proclamations imposing them, while the Brazilian entry ban was imposed in May. Ms Psaki added that "in fact, we plan to strengthen public health measures around international travel in order to further mitigate the spread of Covid-19."

  • Boris Johnson news – latest: MPs vote against universal credit cut as PM blames fish exporters over Brexit chaos

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  • New electric car battery can charge in 10 minutes and keep going for 250 miles, scientists say

    Electric car batteries have been developed that are capable of charging in 10 minutes and would allow a driver to travel for 250 miles. The new lithium ion phosphate batteries, built by US scientists, can quickly heat up and cool down - which is the key to rapid charging and long life. Scientists at Penn State University have invented a battery which matches a Porsche's performance and lasts a lifetime. Tesla's Roadster, considered to be the gold standard of electric vehicles, can run for around 600 miles without charging but it costs more than £180,000 and usually takes hours to charge. While electric cars are becoming increasingly popular in the UK, the fear of running out of power while travelling remains a deterrent for motorists. There were around 164,100 pure electric cars on UK roads and over 373,600 plug-in hybrids as of September 2020.

  • UK weather: Storm Christoph to bring two months of rain in two days as Britain braces for floods

    Storm Christoph is set to deluge Britain with two months worth of rain in 36 hours as families have been told to start moving furniture upstairs to protect against flooding. Vast swathes of the North and Midlands are being warned of a “danger to life” and whole communities could be cut off, the Met Office has said. Amber warnings have been put in place across Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, Nottingham, Leicester and Peterborough for Tuesday, affecting millions of people, as the first named storm of the year is expected to last for three days. Already, there are 56 flood alerts and 11 flood warnings in place, with the River Ouse and River Witham both in danger of bursting their banks. In Doncaster, the local council has been delivering sandbags to people in properties that are most at risk.

  • Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? leaves viewers baffled after contestant blunders on Tiger King question

    ‘Anyone else screaming at the TV?’ asked one frustrated viewer

  • Bidens will be greeted to White House by former Trump hotel worker in historic snub by president

    In further snub, Melania Trump has not given Jill Biden traditional tour of family wing of White House

  • Romeo Beckham Is The Spit Of His Mum Victoria And Dad David On First Ever Magazine Cover

    The 18-year-old's famous parents shared their pride after the L'Uomo Vogue cover was unveiled.

  • Neighbours spoiler pictures see Sheila Canning suffer worrying collapse

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  • Virgin Orbit Launches Rocket Carrying Satellites From Wing of 747

    Virgin Orbit successfully launched a rocket carrying 10 small satellites from below the wing of a converted Boeing 747 over the Pacific Ocean on January 17.The process of launching a rocket into orbit from a plane, and not from the ground, known as “air launch”, is described by Virgin Orbit as “the world’s most flexible and responsive launch service.”The satellites were selected by NASA, with many of them constructed by universities across the US.This footage shows two angles of Virgin’s LauncherOne rocket being released from the aircraft’s wing, before igniting and accelerating into the distance. Credit: Virgin Orbit via Storyful

  • Coronavirus news: ‘Don’t blow it now,’ Hancock warns as four million now have vaccine

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  • Woman 'ejected from Sainsbury’s by police for refusing to wear a face mask'

    Supermarkets announced a clampdown on customers who don't wear face masks.

  • The 8 key upcoming dates in Britain's 2021 COVID battle

    With COVID infections and hospitalisations still high, there is still much to be done before we can even think about returning to normality.

  • Bombshell report links Trump insiders to Washington rally that led to Capitol riots

    Trump campaign team had said that they did not ‘organise, operate or finance’ the 6 January rally

  • Independent pandemic review panel critical of China, WHO delays

    An independent panel said on Monday that Chinese officials could have applied public health measures more forcefully in January to curb the initial COVID-19 outbreak, and criticised the World Health Organization (WHO) for not declaring an international emergency until Jan. 30. The experts reviewing the global handling of the pandemic, led by former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark and former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, called for reforms to the Geneva-based United Nations agency.Their interim report was published hours after the WHO's top emergency expert, Mike Ryan, said that global deaths from COVID-19 were expected to top 100,000 per week "very soon". "What is clear to the Panel is that public health measures could have been applied more forcefully by local and national health authorities in China in January," the report said, referring to the initial outbreak of the new disease in the central city of Wuhan, in Hubei province.

  • UK coronavirus LIVE: Matt Hancock says Covid outbreak being brought ‘under control’ with vaccine roll-out

    Matt Hancock has said the UK’s coronavirus outbreak is being brought “under control” with vaccine roll-out – but warned: “Don’t blow it now”. The Health Secretary told a Downing Street press briefing: "Together, I know that we can do it and we have got to stick at it.”It came after new figures revealed that London is lagging behind other English regions in the vaccination roll-out. A total of 417,225 jabs have been given to people in London between December 8 and January 17, according to provisional NHS England data, compared to 746,487 in the Midland and 681,317 in the North East and Yorkshire.

  • Joggers and cyclists should wear masks – here's why

    We should be thinking about airborne transmission of coronavirus.

  • Serbia becomes first European country to get China’s Covid vaccine

    Country receives one million doses of the Sinopharm jab