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Grant Shapps, the transport secretary, was doing the government media round this morning. Here is a summary of the main points he made about Covid. I will post his comments about his rail reorganisation separately.
A lot of this is to do with the practicalities, of course, and everybody has to be tested before they are even able to get on to a flight to the UK.
But I do want to see people separated out as much as is practically possible and … I think Heathrow will respond to this at the beginning of next month.
Of course. The reason for that is we have ended up getting way ahead in terms of our vaccination programme in this country and we are just having to wait for other countries to catch up with us.
That’s going to gradually happen, obviously, you can see it’s happening, so that list should expand.
Prince William has had his first Covid vaccination, he has revealed on Twitter. He is 38.
On Tuesday I received my first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
To all those working on the vaccine rollout – thank you for everything you’ve done and continue to do. pic.twitter.com/8QP6ao5fEb
