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make sure my patient is safe and comfortable and all right. it is the later part of the procedure when everyone is asking howl later part of the procedure when everyone is asking how i felt and i was like, oh, ijust wanted to make her feel 0k. margaret is at the top. may works on the respiratory ward, and maggie is a patient to remember for her, a real hope. it is adopted —— migrated to stop the devastation, thatis —— migrated to stop the devastation, that is what i want to happen. maggie was the centre of attention and every news channel wanted to hear from her. and every news channel wanted to hearfrom her. she will be heading home for what she says will be a quiet 9ist birthday, christmas with two children and four grandchildren and a chance to reflect on the day she was asked to make history.” thought it was a joke to she was asked to make history.|j thought it was a joke to start with, to tell you the truth. i could not believe it. i am happy it has happened. now i have done eight and
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hopefully it will help other people to come along and do as i age, try to come along and do as i age, try to do the best two graduate of this terrible thing. 90—year—old maggie keenan, making hatchery. —— history. time for a look at the weather. here's darren bett. the fog has not completely gone, but today we have been enjoying much—needed sunshine. further north, the sky is a difference, rain and stronger winds across western scotla nd stronger winds across western scotland and northern ireland because we have an area of low pressure pushing the wetter weather southwards, and for the next few allergy twill be pretty wet across north wales and north—west england. miles with the wetter weather, but supportive strangler and the south—east it is colder, some patches of mist, fog and low cloud around, that will probably thicken
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up around, that will probably thicken up this evening and for the first pa rt up this evening and for the first part of the night, early in the night we will have touch of frost which will list later because of the wetter weather moving into the midlands, heading towards the south—east of england overnight with showers behind. clearance by developing in northern ireland, wales and the south—west and may a pocket of frost here and there and be risk optimised, but it should be frost free by the end of the night —— clearer skies developing. tomorrow will be milder with rain about posting for east anglia and the south—west, many places brightening with sunshine, showers here and there, that the cloud brings rain into northern ireland, west wales and south—west england. the air is still quite cold, temperatures of 607. this wetter weather coming into western areas does not reach eastern parts of the uk and most of the heavy rain things settled into front and the weather
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front splits into two, soweto weather in southern part of england moves away, patchy rain across western scotland, trifled many, maybe some mist over the hills and we will find a positive light rain and drizzle towards east coast —— so wetter weather in parts of southern england. with another band of rain arriving into the evening in northern ireland, accompanied by stronger winds, but northern ireland, accompanied by strongerwinds, but again northern ireland, accompanied by stronger winds, but again the heavy rain will move on to france and it will take away the warmest air. looking pretty cloudy on friday, this time there is more of a breeze and we will fight pockets of what is mostly light rain or drizzle, maybe the brightest light in the west with 11 degrees in the south—west but elsewhere around six or seven. a reminder of our top story... a historic day in the global fight against coronavirus — 90 year margaret keenan is the first person in the world to receive the pfizer vaccine outside trials.
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i would say go for it, because it is free and it is the best thing that has ever happened at the moment. please go for it, that is all i say. ifi please go for it, that is all i say. if i can do it, so can you. and breaking news that the uk has reached a deal with the eu over the withdrawal agreement. they will pull the controversial clauses in the d raft" the controversial clauses in the draft" breach international law. now it is time for the news where you are. good afternoon. it's 1.30pm and here's your latest sports news. i'm ollie foster at the bbc sport centre. just three games into the rugby union premiership season, sale shark‘s director of rugby,
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steve diamond, has quit with immediate effect. he had been in charge for 10 years and says he taken the decision to "step away from the business" for personal reasons. here's our rugby union correspondent chris jones. well, correspondent chrisjones. this is a major surprise has well, this is a major surprise and has completely out of the blue. steve diamond has been the beating heart of sale sharks for ten years oi’ heart of sale sharks for ten years or $0. heart of sale sharks for ten years or so. he has been director of rugby and occasionally acting as director as well. he has made them very competitive over the years, often punching above their weight. with a bigger budget over the years, he has been able to build a strong squad that looked set to make a premiership title tilt. however, covid—i9 has thrown finances up and down the country into complete and utter turmoil. there may be financial reasons at play here, especially with steve diamond himself being a shareholder.
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regardless of the reasons, it is still a huge surprise at the end of the sale sharks's steve diamond dynasty. millwall and queens park rangers players will link arms in a show of solidarity before kick—off in their championship game at the den this evening. the teams will also display a banner to show their collective commitment towards efforts to rid the game of racism. it follows the booing of players at millwall when they took the knee over the weekend, something the fa are investigating, as well as a similar incident at colchester. millwall‘s regular shirt sponsor will also be replaced with the logo of anti—discrimination body kick it out. what they have come up with is something that they feel will create unity in their club and a message that everyone can get behind. now, i disagree with some of the objections to take a knee. i disagree with the compilation with other political movements that people have mischievously been making, but i have to accept that some people disagree with that and if this is something that creates unity, we should
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be supporting it. paul pogba's agent says the frenchman is unhappy and needs a change of scene and the best solution would be for him to leave manchester united in the january transfer window. that's hardly what the club needs to hear ahead of a huge game in europe this evening. they need a point away at rb leipzig to be sure of reaching the last 16 in the champions league. they are level on nine points with the german side and also paris st germain. if united fail to progress, they would drop down into the europa league the former england captain michael vaughan says he can understand why tom curran and tom banton have opted to take a breakfrom cricket after months of living in bio—secure environments. the england pair were due to play in the big bash league in australia, but opted out. vaughan says ‘bubble fatigue‘ is something that selectors have to recognise. tom banton didn't surprise me when he pulled out. tom curran has done exactly the same. they're just not willing to leave
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what has been that bubble in south africa to then go to australia, to have that two—week quarantine period. i was meant to be in australia this winter and i didn't go because i didn't want to put myself through that. if this carries on for much longer, i think teams are not going to have two teams. a team that plays the t20, a team that plays the 50 overs... potentially three teams, a team to play the test match. if this carries on, it is going to be very difficult to keep them locked up as they have done. that's all the sport for now. you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website. that's bbc.co.uk/sport. the uk has become the first country in the world to begin a mass vaccination programme for coronavirus with a fully—tested jab. a grandmother from coventry, margaret keenan, was at the front of the queue for the injection, developed by pfizer and biontech. professor stephen powis, the medical director
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for nhs england, was there, and he spoke to our health editor, hugh pym. todayis today is a hugely important day for the country, for nhs staff and most importantly for people everywhere. it marks a turning point in this pandemic, the beginning of the end, oui’ pandemic, the beginning of the end, our way out of infections and a way back into the sort of life that we are all missing so much. how did you feel being right here when the vaccination was being prepared for margaret and then delivered? when maggie was vaccinated at around 6:30am this morning it was hugely emotional. as soon as she had had the jab, emotional. as soon as she had had thejab, a emotional. as soon as she had had the jab, a round of applause broke out because i think everybody felt that emotion. and really felt that historic moments. this is an unprecedented pandemic. we have been focusing on treating patients who have got the virus, now we can focus on preventing people from getting it
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and getting the severe symptoms that can come along with it. it has been quite an achievement for the nhs, to go from approval less than a week ago, to rolling it out here. that has been a huge, huge challenge. nhs staff have been working all year to treat patients. we have been working for many months to prepare for the role of vaccination. the regulator gave the approval last week and we wa nt to gave the approval last week and we want to go as quickly as possible. this has taken weeks of preparation to get to the point where 50 hospitals are starting the vaccine programme this week, and in the next week or two we are determined to grow out to gps and into care homes to get the jab to our most vulnerable members of the population. have you resolve the regulatory issues with breaking the boxes don't care homes? we have been working closely with the regulator and pfizer to ensure that this
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really complex vaccine that can be quite fragile if you don't stored and transported at the right temperature, can get to care homes. we are putting in place to sign logistical steps to make sure that can be done safely, can be done without any danger to the vaccine, and we will be getting into care homes as soon as and we will be getting into care homes as soon as we and we will be getting into care homes as soon as we possibly can. within weeks, do you think? yes, our aim is to get it and certainly before christmas. would you also wa nt to before christmas. would you also want to make the point that you can be vaccinated, four weeks later you have some immunity, but it doesn't mean you won't spread the virus. just explain what the vaccine can and can't do. the vaccine studies have focused on preventing this severest symptoms of this infection, so stopping hospitalisations, ensuring that people only get mild symptoms if they get the vaccine. it may be that the vaccines can also stop transmission of the disease,
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which would be ideal. he would only find out as we start these vaccination programmes. either way, it isa vaccination programmes. either way, it is a really important step because it. death, it will prevent all the side—effects that we could potentially see from this, and it will take pressure off hospitals, as well. should we also make the point that you have a tough winter ahead. restrictions will have to stay in place, today is important but it is not a reason to relax. vaccination is the way out of this pandemic, but it will take months to get through all the people we need to vaccinate. the difference would be today, tomorrow or even the difference would be today, tomorrow or even next month, it will only come in the months ahead. that means it will still be a tough winterfor means it will still be a tough winter for all of means it will still be a tough winterfor all of us, top means it will still be a tough winter for all of us, top of the nhs, so it is absolutely crucial that the public has done what it has done throughout, and keep complying
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with the restrictions in place, keep social distancing, behaving responsibly and ensuring that you save lives. russia's mass vaccination programme against covid 19 is now underway with injections on offer to teachers, health and social workers — the groups judged at highest risk of catching the virus. the vaccine is known as sputnik v and there are big expectations for it, in a country that's been hard hit by the coronavirus. but as sarah rainsford reports from moscow, it's still undergoing mass safety trials and there are some concerns about the process russia has followed. a shot of sputnik v. russia's ambition for its covid vaccine is there in its very name. this jab is still in safety trials, but vladimir putin has already ordered a mass vaccination campaign. it is a new kind of global race that russia wants to lead. but producing a vaccine like launching a satellite, is not easy. we visited a biotech firm in st petersburg, one of very few making sputnik v
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on an industrial scale. this bag here contains russia's sputnik vaccine in its very earliest stage and it's when you see all this equipment here, the reactors, the work that's going on, you realisejust how complicated it is and how long it takes to get from this to the final vaccine rolling off the production lines. sputnik is double the trouble of any other vaccine. there's two injections with two different products, supposedly more effective, but a second jab is proving harder to make. this biotech boss says russia has set itself a crazy task. translation: that would have avoided some of the complications. but look when they called us in! at the very end. the scientists came up with something, good for them. but no one questioned how
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to actually make the vaccine. the need for a vaccine is urgent, especially in russia's regions. hospitals like this one up north so full of covid patients at one point, they were sleeping in corridors. sputnik v's developers claim it can stop 95% of people getting sick but that's only interim data. svetlana is concerned russia cut corners in its push to be first. it's very early to say is it really good or bad? only after the third phase clinical trial we can estimate the real efficacy and safety of any product. they sing. these scenes are shocked even russians recently, st petersburg, partying through the pandemic. the country is not in lockdown, though. president putin wants
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to protect the economy. but people we spoke to weren't keen on getting an experimentaljab. we are no medical superpower, this man told me. he says he will wait and see. russia has bet big on sputnik v. it now needs its vaccine to live up to the hype. sarah rainsford, bbc news, moscow. now it's time for your questions answered on the roll—out of the pfizer/biontech vaccine with my colleaguejoanna gosling. joining us this morning is doctor sarah jarvis, a joining us this morning is doctor sarahjarvis, a gp. joining us this morning is doctor sarah jarvis, a gp. welcome and thank you forjoining us. we have so many questions. we always get so many questions. we always get so many questions, really specific as well. we will try to get away
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through as many as we can. our first question is, my husband and i are 61, we both have blood cancer and helping children since march. when will we our vaccination so we can get our lives back? it's likely depends what group your rain. you will probably be in the clinic be extremely vulnerable group. if you had a letter asking you to show at the outset of the pandemic he should be very near the top of the list. theoretically, people living in care homes are at the top of the list, but there are practical issues and rolling that out. wales said they will not do that until we have a different vaccine, scotland will be working on that next week, england a little bit later. otherwise it is early 805, care home staff, nhs staff and people who work in health and social care board in the front line, as well as people who are clinically extremely vulnerable. they will be invited with anyone over they will be invited with anyone over 70. that will not be too long, but a few more weeks. robin says, if
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i have the vaccination in the near future, with any subsequent top up, then a year or so, also have to be a pfizer or canopy another vaccine? we do know that yet. there is no reason looking at other vaccines why you shouldn't have a different vaccine next year if you do need a booster. you should be, if possible, having two doses at the same vaccine for your standard dose and your booster dose, which will be given 21 days apart for the pfizer vaccine, or 28 days apart for the astrazeneca one. david wants to know if my 83—year—old high risk parents, who has a hospital appointment this week, will she be offered the vaccine? she should be, if there is no reason vaccine? she should be, if there is no reason for her not to have it. if you look at my twitter feed, there is you look at my twitter feed, there i5a you look at my twitter feed, there is a list of all the hospitals that are in the first wave. how do people
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know, are they getting letters? he should be. if you go into hospital and have an appointment and you are over and have an appointment and you are over 80, there is a good chance of being asked when you are there. in the wider scale, people will be notified and either be told that they can have it at a national help, or next week 280, shortly after that 1,000 general practice hub sites will also be providing the vaccine, and they will be sending letters out to people. helen asked, our front line doctors and nurses receiving the vaccine in the first tranche? pretty close. the first tranche theoretically is care home staff and residents. after that, the next tranche is over 805 and health and social care board staff. because of thoseissues social care board staff. because of those issues i highlighted by getting the vaccines into care homes, because this pfizer/biontech needs to be stored at —70, can only be taken out and split so many times, it could well be that health
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and social care staff will be first. i5 and social care staff will be first. is it possible to have an indication on when the different tiers will be gone through? how long it will take to get through each group? no, it is a vast undertaking. we are talking 10 million people in the first three tiers alone. as soon as we get the gp hubs, and more importantly a5 soon a5 gp hubs, and more importantly a5 soon as we gp hubs, and more importantly a5 soon as we get a choice of vaccines. the limiting factor at the moment is the number of vaccines that we have. we have 800,000 apparently coming, but i think we would be lucky to get 10 million by the end of the year, which is enough to vaccinate 5 million people. victoria says, the vaccine is being created and brought out ina vaccine is being created and brought out in a couple of months, how can we out in a couple of months, how can we be sure it is free of long term side effects? the vast majority of vaccines to have long—term side—effects. the only way we find out about very rare side effects is when we rule them out to millions of
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people. it is completely started to rule out a vaccine on the basis of studies of 30,000, 40,000 people. the reason this vaccine has been created so quickly is firstly because china made the genetic pinto —— finger prints available to the entire world free injanuary. that often entire world free injanuary. that ofte n ta kes entire world free injanuary. that often takes months. then money was thrown at companies to create these and the trials, because the trials we re and the trials, because the trials were so and the trials, because the trials were so comprehensive, they are very expensive. money was no object. 30 they were able to build on research that has been done on other viruses like ebola and malaria, so they had a lot of research off—the—shelf that they could just adapt much more quickly. then, of course, normally ta kes a quickly. then, of course, normally takes a long time to get enough people into a trial. on this occasion we had 330 people in the uk alone he signed up. then, once you get the vaccine trial site, you have to wait for a certain number of people to get the infection. covid
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is so common that happen very quickly. finally, the regulatory body, which looked at the data, it set everything aside to look at this, it has been preparing to do this, it has been preparing to do this review for six months. actually, it is not a question of taking longer than it should, it is ju5t they have been able to run the different streams at the same time. mike asked, how wide is the window for receiving the second vaccine jab, what will happen to those who miss it? it is a good question and we miss it? it is a good question and we don't know for certain. the green book has a new chapterjust this morning. they say that for the pfizer/biontech it should be up three weeks, acts four weeks for the astrazeneca one. what they say is if you miss one, you don't restart the course, you just give it. we have certainly got a few weeks leeway. why aren't more care home visitors
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vaccinated? if we vaccinate all staff and visitors to a care home, it is most likely that the residents would be infected from infection? the staff are having the most contact with them. the practicalities of getting all care home visitors vaccinated would be huge. in terms of the number of lives saved, i don't think it would be as great. in the meantime, we will have to stick with a care home staff who cannot socially distance, i get other visitors to socially distance, possibly to get a test before they go, and so on. i will save before they go, and so on. i will save those lives. joe asked, once you have had the first vaccine jab, can you get covid when waiting for the second jab, and if so, what can be done? yes, you can get it. we think it will probably be a few weeks after the second vaccination before your body has built up full immunity. you will be treated in exactly the same way as anybody else
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who had covid. what happens to people who refused the vaccine, will they be put to the bottom of the list? if they refuse the vaccine they will not be on the list because they will not be on the list because they have asked to be taken off it. they should have discussions with theirgps, they should have discussions with their gps, their hospital co nsulta nts their gps, their hospital consultants to try to understand why they are concerned, and hopefully to allay those concerns. nigel says, as an 80—year—old, i am lucky enough to get vaccinated quickly, but then i have to have a negative covert test result to fly away for christmas. am i likely to test positive because the vaccine contains a smidgen of the vaccine contains a smidgen of the covid—19? the vaccine contains a smidgen of the covid-19? you are not getting the covid-19? you are not getting the virus. you are getting the most unbelievably minuscule bit of the genetic code, so there is no question of your testing positive. a5a question of your testing positive. as a result of the vaccination.|j haven't heard much about the side—effects of this vaccine, but i read about a nurse from the united states who took part in the pfizer trial and experience headache, nausea, chills and fever. are these
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common side—effects? nausea, chills and fever. are these common side-effects? when anybody gets a vaccine it is possible to get some gets a vaccine it is possible to get some redness and soreness, and a low—grade fever and feel a bit tired because your body is building its own because your body is building its own immune system. that is what we have seen with all of the vaccines. headache, tiredness, at the two we have heard about. one person describes it as a severe hangover, but i think that it's a small proportion. even then, with a headache and tiredness, under one in 20 people got that. i should add, i have been on a vaccine trial so i have been on a vaccine trial so i have had a 50% chance of having the real thing and i had no side effects whatsoever, and neither did my husband. this was didn't know the fa cts husband. this was didn't know the facts trial. i wasn't at the right age to go for the oxford trial, but i have been on this other trial and hope to have preliminary results in january. suzanne says, can immunosuppressed people get the jab?
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according to the green book, yes, they not only should have it, but they not only should have it, but they will be in one of those high—risk groups, so they will get it before other people of their age. there doesn't seem to be any concern about safety. what we are concerned about safety. what we are concerned about is that people who are immunosuppressed not mount the same immune response because their bodies will respond in the same way in terms of building up antibodies. there is some talk in the future about possibly vaccinating people who live with somebody who is extremely clinically vulnerable, in other words, previously on the shielding li5t. other words, previously on the shielding list. thank you, doctor sarah jarvis. you are watching bbc news. let's bring you the headlines and just a moment, but first, the weather.
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not so much fog around today, but it hasn't gone away completelyjust yet. this is one part of the country that was foggy yesterday, but earlier on we did have some welcome sunshine. further north, the skies have looked different. we have had some have looked different. we have had some rain falling in many areas with a lot of cloud. dominated by low pressure a cross a lot of cloud. dominated by low pressure across northern parts of the uk. it has been windy at times with outbreaks of rain. still quite wet in parts of north wales, north—west england. that rain is heading its way into the middle and evening. a header at the fog will ta ke evening. a header at the fog will take a evening. a header at the fog will takea nap evening. a header at the fog will take a nap in parts of east anglia going to kent. that will lift later in the night. showers will follow this band of rain. cleary spelt developing in northern ireland, wales and the south—west, so maybe a few pockets of frost here with the odd icy patch. generally speaking, but the end of the night, temperatures will freezing. tomorrow morning, things will look
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differently in the south—east, milder with the chance of some rain. that moves away and we are left with sunshine and a few showers, especially for eastern areas. i took the west will get some rain moving into northern ireland, western wales and the south—west later on. ahead of that, temperatures at six or seven, the winds should be light. the weather system coming in from the atlantic will not get to eastern areas, it tends to just bring most of the rain—soaked words into france. the weather front bringing it gets cut into with rain moving southwards away from the uk, and rain stock and western parts of scotland. for many places it will be dry and cloudy with a few pockets of light rain or drizzle in eastern coastal areas, and temperatures here at five or six. out to the west, nine or ten perhaps, with more rain arriving in northern ireland at the end of the day. another weather system heading our way, this one has stronger winds, but the heaviest of the rebel with its way down into
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france, which is where the warmest of the air will push away. a lot of cloud on friday with pockets of mainly light rain or drizzle. sunshine rather limited. it could brighten up in northern ireland, wales and the far south—west later with some showers. temperatures t 11, further east, six or seven.
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this is bbc news, i'm simon mccoy. the headlines... a historic day in the global fight against coronavirus — 90 year margaret keenan is the first person in the world to receive the pfizer vaccine outside trials. so begins the biggest vaccination campaign in the history of the nhs. we'll have the latest on the roll—out from across the uk — as hundreds follow in ma rga ret‘s footsteps. i would say go for it. go for it, because it is free and it's the best thing that's ever happened. at the moment. so, please, go for it, that's all i say, you know? if i can do it, well, so can you. we urge people to contain their impatience. it isa people to contain their impatience. it is a very, very exciting moment but there's still a lot of work to be done and a lot of discipline to
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