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Professor Kevin Fenton has warned that we may be in the “foothills” of another wave of Covid-19 cases.

He told LBC it was unlikely that all people over 30 in London would be vaccinated by July 19 when all restrictions were relaxed.

“We are in the foothills of what could be a third wave, we must do hands, face, space, ventilation and prevention,” Professor Fenton said.

He continued, “Vaccinating now will not stop the increases we are seeing in the community this week, but they will begin to build resilience for the city as we get to July 19.”

The director of Public Health England (PHE) said in London that the capital was entering a “summer race” to vaccinate as many people as possible by July 19.

The rate of uptake in London has been slower than elsewhere, but Professor Kevin Fenton said he had been making “amazing progress” over the past few weeks.

“We are about to enter one last summer race, where we are working with the local authorities to raise prices among everyone over the age of 18, especially those over the age of 40,” he said. “This is our number one focus in town right now.”

Prof Fenton told LBC that PHE staff in London were dealing with hesitation about the safety of vaccines and “working in communities and knocking on doors, making sure we have those people delivering the vaccines”.

Russian workers who refuse Covid-19 vaccinations in areas where it is mandatory may have to take unpaid leaveThe country’s labor minister warned, with infections rising and vaccinations slowing.

“If the health authorities in a region make vaccination mandatory for some categories of workers, the unvaccinated employee may be suspended,” Anton Kotyakov said in comments posted on Sunday on a state-run channel on the messaging app Telegram.

He added that the suspension will continue as long as the mandatory vaccination decree is in effect.

The Russian capital, Moscow, has ordered the compulsory vaccination of the population working in the service industry, saying that 60% will have to be fully vaccinated by August 15.

Seven other cities and regions, including Russia’s second largest city, St. Petersburg, have imposed similar rules, according to Russian media.

The new wave of infections comes as St Petersburg, the country’s worst hot spot after Moscow, is set to host seven Euro 2020 matches – including the quarter-finals on July 2 – expected to draw thousands of European football fans.

Although free vaccines have been available to Russians since December, only 19.5 million of a total population of 146 million have received at least one dose of the vaccine, according to Gogov’s website, which calculates Covid numbers from regions and the media.

In Moscow, only 1.5 million of the city’s 12 million residents have been fully vaccinated.

A recent independent poll found that 60% of Russians do not intend to get the shot.

British Finance Minister Rishi Sunak must think again about ending the furlough as companies in the hardest-hit sectors will miss the plan hard, Guardian business correspondent Richard Partington wrote.

Treasury workers are quick to point to industry complaints about staff shortages when questions about furloughs arise. Tory MPs are too Press to finish the chart, arguing that leaving workers bleed the state and prevent the effective functioning of the job market.

There are many reasons why this reasoning is inverted. After the worst recession in three centuries, severe job risks remain. The COVID-19 pandemic is not over yet. Although employers are starting to hire again – and many can’t find enough employees – there is still The number of employees has decreased by half a million than it was before the outbreak of the epidemic. The emergency and ongoing health restrictions are the main constraint to the job market, not support measures.

Vietnam The Ministry of Health said on Sunday that a shipment of 500,000 doses of the Sinopharm vaccine was donated by China, as the country ramps up vaccinations to combat the widespread outbreak of the disease.

Authorities in the country of 98 million people approved the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine for emergency use against Covid-19 in early June.

The Ministry of Health said in a statement that the vaccines will be used for three groups: Chinese citizens in Vietnam, Vietnamese who plan to work or study in China, and people who live near the border with China.

Vietnam’s domestic vaccination programme, which began in March, has so far relied heavily on about four million injections of the AstraZeneca vaccine.

Nearly 2.4 million people in Vietnam have received a single dose of the Covid-19 vaccine, while 115,315 people have been fully vaccinated, according to official data.

Indonesia Data from the Covid-19 task force showed that 13,737 new cases of coronavirus were reported on Sunday, the highest single-day rate since January 30, bringing the total number of cases in the country to nearly two million.

On Sunday, the task force also reported 371 new deaths, the largest number of daily deaths since early April, bringing the total to 54,662.

The United kingdom It is heading towards a situation where those who have been vaccinated twice can be exempted from quarantine, said a senior health official.

Dr. Susan Hopkins, one of the government’s key advisors on the pandemic response, said a decision will be made after results from a major study using daily lateral flow tests as an alternative to isolation for 10 days after contact with a positive case.

Year Health The chief Covid-19 adviser in England told the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show on Sunday that it would provide evidence as to whether people who have been vaccinated are less likely to transmit the virus. “Then we have an evidence base to derive government policy,” she said.

She said it could be used to allow people to travel more freely. I’m not sure when, but at some point in the future I can imagine a situation where we will have alternatives to isolation for people who have had two doses of the vaccine,” she said.

Hopkins said the UK was seeing the effect of vaccination in the main foci of infection, but that infections were increasing in other regions.

Number of Covid-19 vaccines administered in China The one billion mark, health officials said Sunday, has crossed more than a third of the doses given worldwide.

The National Health Commission’s announcement comes after the number of shots made globally exceeded 2.5 billion on Friday, according to a count from official sources who spoke to AFP.

It is not clear what percentage of China’s population is now vaccinated, but the vaccination campaign has slowly begun after a successful fight against the virus left little sense of the urgency of vaccination.

Lack of transparency and past vaccine scandals have also led to population resistance.

Authorities have set an ambitious goal of vaccinating 40 percent of the country’s 1.4 billion people by the end of this month.

Some counties offer vaccines for free to encourage people to roll up their sleeves. Residents of central Anhui Province received free eggs, while some in Beijing received shopping vouchers.

The outbreak of the more contagious delta type of virus in the southern city of Guangzhou has also been a wake-up call for many slowing down.

China reported 23 new cases of the coronavirus on Sunday.

Australia Queensland recorded one case of locally acquired coronavirus on Sunday, the latest in a series of small outbreaks that have plagued the country in recent months.

The Queensland case comes as a combination of a highly contagious delta variant Two to nine cases in New South Wales, the most populous state in Australia, prompting health officials to expand the rules for wearing masks.

“We know that this strain, which has become the dominant strain, is highly contagious and some people are spreading it more than others, and what we want to avoid at this point is a highly prevalent event,” said New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian.