dr naomi forrester-soto and professor keith neal, thank you for your time and expertise.nal statistics. robert cuffe, our head of statistics, joins me. what's more can you tell us about these numbers? we saw almost 700,000 deaths registered in the uk last year, that is a large variance and a single year, the average in the five yea rs below single year, the average in the five years below that was just a little bit over 600,000, so that 90,000 extra deaths, 15%, is larger than we have seen since around world war ii. it does not mean we are back with the death rates we saw back then, it isa the death rates we saw back then, it is a big increase in a single year but it leaves us with death rates we we re but it leaves us with death rates we were probably seeing in the middle of the noughties, it is an historic interest in —— increase in death rates, during about ten years of progress in terms of life expectancy. does it break it down further comedy hh or the geography, or is it an overall picture? —— does it break it and said, including ph ranges all the geography? the patt

thank you, keith neal at the university of nottingham. thank you for your expertise. >> thank you. >>> congress is set to certify the presidential election next week and republican representatives are trying to change the results. that is going nowhere. some of the colleagues say they will try to overturn the will of the people. early voting turnout was heavy in georgia states. the runoff will decide which party controls the senate in the next two years. we will have a preview. 's inside? a blast of immune support that's more than just vitamin c. it's a unique crafted blend of vitamins, zinc, other minerals, and herbs. take on your day with airborne. >>> welcome back. a trump appointed federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit over the election results. texas representative gohmert wants to give the vice president the authority to discard votes in several key states when the congress certifies the vote. gohmert lacks the standing to sue. he has just appealed to the higher court. and the senate delivered a rare rebuke to trump to override the

questions i'm joined by doctor naomi forrester—soto, a virologist at keele university and by professor keith neal the university of nottingham. thank you both very much forjoining us today. can i start with you, naomi. and a question from david williams who says, on vaccines, does the second dose administered have to be the same type as the first? that's a really good question. against the same spike protein and there is evidence from the literature that what we call giving one dose of vaccine and a second dose of a second vaccine, has sometimes been beneficial. so although the vaccines were tested in clinical trials with the same repeated dose, there are now trials going on, i think, orjust about to start, to test whether or not this heterologous boosting would actually be beneficial. so in an ideal situation, i would say no, get the same vaccine. but under these circumstances, i think we need to wait and see what the data says for the different vaccines. can ijust pick up with one question i have been sent on twitter by peter lewis. i am 80 years old, i had myjab five days ago and want to know

thank you very much, professor keith neal at the university of nottingham in england.ur expertise. >> thank you. >>> current coronavirus levels are not what many countries across the globe were hoping for in the new year. according to johns hopkins university, there are more than 84 million cases around the world. south korea is banning gatherings of five people or more nationwide. it's also keeping social distancing measures in place until at least january the 17th. the ministry of health says daily cases there are in the high hundreds. japan with a much larger population is reporting daily cases in the thousands. the ministry of health confirms 716 patients were in serious condition due to covid on fri y friday, a new record there. >>> in australia, authorities are making the wearing of face masks mandatory in public indoor spaces. they're also imposing additional restrictions on new south wales after a virus cluster expanded by seven new cases there. >>> the city where scientists say the coronavirus pandemic began looks far different than it did a year ago. wuhan wa