Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday morning.
Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday morning. We'll have another update for you this evening.A UK-wide programme of booster jabs to help prevent Covid will be confirmed later, the BBC understands.
of the Pfizer vaccine will be available to over-50s at least six months after their second dose, with the over-70s and those most at risk again prioritised.children aged 12 to 15 in England will be offered one dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid jab, says Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi. The programme will be rolled out through schools, with invitations going out from next week and parental consent being sought, the government says. Rollouts are yet to be confirmed in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.Early data suggests the number of people in jobs returned to pre-Covid levels in August, although more than a million people were still furloughed, according to the Office for National Statistics.
- topping one million - with the unemployment rate falling to 4.6%, the official figures show, although the ONS adds young people have been badly affected by job losses.Abta is urging the government to scrap Covid PCR testing for fully vaccinated travellers returning from lower-risk countries and perform a "significant overhaul" of the traffic-light system for destinations. It says the policies have "choked off" this summer's travel trade, with seven out of 10 travel firms planning to make redundancies after furlough ends. The government says protecting public health is its priority and that decisions on the traffic-light system are kept under regular review.
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