Vaccines were not going to be enough to keep the spread under control, and people need to make effort to avoid contact in order to slow transmission rates, he added. Prof Adam Finn, who is on the UK’s Joint Committee of Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), said Covid-19 hospital admissions and deaths are rising, and warned against complacency in what he said is a “worsening” situation.The prime minister, who has said there are no plans for another lockdown, said: “Vaccines are our way through this winter.” Boris Johnson said vaccines will get the country through the winter and out of the pandemic.But at the moment the data does not suggest that we should immediately be moving to plan B,” he said. The UK chancellor Rishi Sunak said data did not suggest it was time to move to plan B.
Here’s a round up of the key events today.
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Health officials are concerned about how to divert key resources to combatting a rise in sexually-transmitted infections (STI) that is now continuing despite the social restrictions of the coronavirus pandemic and is now in its sixth consecutive year of increase.
STI rates “at their highest numbers” in the US as Covid dominates health funding. The figures show that the UK is behind every member of the G7 – of which Britain is currently the chair – except for Japan. The advocacy organisation One, which is campaigning to end extreme poverty and preventable disease by 2030, described it as shaming for the UK government. The UK is lagging behind other G7 countries in sharing surplus Covid vaccines with poorer countries, according to newly published figures. A review panel of the US food and drug administration (FDA) found last week that the benefits of Pfizer-BioNTech shots for the younger age group outweighed the risks. US chief medical adviser Dr Anthony Fauci predicts Covid shots for kids five to 11 will be available by early November. This is equivalent to millions more checks, scans and procedures for non-emergency patients. In an effort to get a grip on the crisis, the chancellor will unveil plans for investment in NHS capital funding this week to help deliver about 30% more elective activity by 2024-25 compared to pre-pandemic levels. UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak to announce almost £6bn to tackle England’s record NHS waiting list. As Covid cases rise the NHS battles a huge backlog of 5.7 million patients caused by the first and second waves of the virus. The health service could soon be unable to deliver “the care it needs to” for women giving birth if the surge in Covid cases continues, the president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists has said. NHS maternity services feared to be near breaking point, the UK’s most senior gynaecologist has warned. 
In an Instagram post he said: “It means that I’m now unable to plough ahead with any in-person commitments for now, so I’ll be doing as many of my planned interviews/performances I can from my house.” Sheeran will be self isolating and cancelling in-person commitments. British singer Ed Sheeran announced testing positive for Covid-19.
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