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Harry Potter 1st edition could fetch £50,000 - page 4 California’s British Accent ™ - Since 1984 Saturday, October 3, 2020 • Number 1855 Always Free Covid: Vaccine will ‘not return life to normal in spring’ “....the history of vaccine development is littered with lots of failures.” Even an effective coronavirus vaccine will not return life to normal in spring, a group of leading scientists has warned. A vaccine is often seen from the UK as the holy grail that will government’s scientific end the pandemic. But a advisers, that some report, from researchers people may get a brought together by the vaccine this year and Royal Society, said we mass vaccination may needed to be “realistic” start early next year. about what a vaccine However, the Royal could achieve and when. Society report warns it They said restrictions will be a long process. may need to be “Even when the “gradually relaxed” as vaccine is available it it could take up to a year doesn’t mean within to roll the vaccine out. a month everybody is More than 200 vaccines going to be vaccinated, NOT THERE YET: “We simply don’t know when an effective vaccine will be available, how to protect against we’re talking about six effective it will be and of course, crucially, how quickly it can be distributed.” the virus are being months, nine months... developed by scientists a year,” said Prof Nilay refrigerator capacity, studies have not yet sliding scale, even after some time to answer, and around the world in a Shah, head of chemical with some vaccines shown if this is enough the introduction of a we still do not know if process that is taking engineering at Imperial needing storage at minus to either offer complete vaccine that we know to people need vaccinating place at unprecedented College London. 80C. protection or lessen the be effective. every couple of years or speed. “There’s not a Prof Shah estimates symptoms of Covid. “We will have to if one shot will do. question of life suddenly vaccinating people Prof Charles Bangham, gradually relax some of long process returning to normal in would have to take chair of immunology the other interventions.” ‘vaccine passports’ “A vaccine offers great March.” place at a pace, 10 times of Imperial College And many questions Commenting on hope for potentially The report said there faster than the annual flu London, said: “We that will dictate the the study, Dr Andrew ending the pandemic, were still “enormous” campaign and would be simply don’t know vaccination strategy Preston from the but we do know that challenges ahead. a full-time job for up to when an effective remain unanswered, University of Bath, said: the history of vaccine Some of the 30,000 trained staff. vaccine will be available, such as: will one shot be “Clearly the vaccine development is littered experimental how effective it will be enough or will boosters has been portrayed with lots of failures,” approaches being taken immune response and of course, crucially, be required? Will the as a silver bullet and said Dr Fiona Culley, - such as RNA vaccines “I do worry, is enough how quickly it can be vaccine work well ultimately it will be our from the National Heart - have never been mass thinking going into the distributed. enough in older people salvation, but it may and Lung Institute produced before. whole system?” he says. “Even if it is effective, with aged immune not be an immediate at Imperial College There are questions Early trial data has it is unlikely that we systems? process.” London. around raw materials suggested that vaccines will be able to get back The researchers warn He said there would There is - both for the vaccine are triggering an completely to normal, the issue of long-term need to be discussion optimism, including and glass vials - and immune response, but so there’s going to be a immunity will still take cont. on page 3, col 5 News from Britain 2-5 • Brits in LA 8 • Meet a Member 8, Stargazing 9 • Puzzles 9 • Sport 15-16 Page 2 The british Weekly, Sat. October 3, 2020 News From Britain PM urges Britons to Britain ‘stick together’ to avoid inks fresh fishing national lockdown deal BORIS Johnson is urging defeat this virus and that Britons to “stick together” is what we are going to do. BRITAIN signed its to halt a second Covid “We now have to stick first fishing deal as an wave and avoid another to it together – and we independent coastal national lockdown. should stick to it with state in 40 years this He called for forbearance confidence because there week. as he warned the country are many ways in which The agreement sees the was at a “critical moment” we are far better prepared UK and Norway agree with coronavirus cases than we were in March.” to fix quotas and access increasing. Mr Johnson delivered to each other’s fishing But the Prime Minister the rallying cry in a return waters annually. also said he would order to regular coronavirus Brexit negotiator Lord more “costly” curbs if updates from No10. rapid increases in cases.” essentials. we give ourselves the Frost called the move a infections continued to His chief scientific Mr Johnson said he The Prime Minister best possible chance of “crucial step forward” rise. adviser Sir Patrick wanted to “pay tribute” said: “The best way avoiding that outcome as Britain throws off He told a Downing Vallance said: “It is very to students who were forwards, to protect the and avoiding further the shackles of the EU’s Street news briefing on clear that rates are still experiencing a first term NHS, save lives, to keep measures.” Common Fisheries Tuesday: “No matter how going up. back at university “unlike our children in school and Insisting he wanted to Policy in three months. impatient we may be, how And so we don’t have anything they could have the economy moving, is to avoid another national UK fishing fleets land fed up we may become, this under control at the imagined”. follow the rules wherever lockdown, Mr Johnson around £32million worth there is only one way of moment.” He added: “I can assure we live. said: “I really don’t want of fish from Norwegian doing this. everybody at university “So I want to thank to do this. I don’t want waters each year. “And that’s by showing ‘wrong direction’ that plans are being everyone for the fantastic to go back to a national It comes as Brexit a collective forbearance, The Government’s put in place to allow national effort that we are lockdown where the negotiators offered common sense and chief medical officer students home safely for seeing, continuing to see.” overall guidance is stay at Brussels a three-year willingness to make Chris Whitty warned Christmas.” However, he warned: home, that is not what we transition period on sacrifices for the safety of the number of Covid The latest restrictions “I have to be clear that are saying. fishing rights in an others.” patients in hospitals include a 10pm pub and if the evidence requires “We want to keep attempt to secure a Insisting people did and intensive care was restaurant curfew and the it, we will not hesitate the economy moving. breakthrough in trade not want to surrender in increasing “quite rapidly” rule of six limit on social to take further measures We want to keep young talks. the fight, he said: “I know in some areas. He said gatherings. that would, I’m afraid, be people, pupils in The EU’s demands for some people will think there was a “significant Seventy-one people more costly than the ones education. the same level of access we should give up and let rise” in people testing died of coronavirus on we have put into effect “But the only way we to UK waters post-Brexit the virus take its course, positive in the North-east, Monday and Tuesday. now. can do that is if we all have been one of the despite the huge loss of Northwest and Yorkshire Mr Johnson said the “But if we put in the follow the guidance and main stumbling blocks in life that would potentially and Humber. Government was on work together now, then depress the virus.” the talks. entail. Professor Whitty track to hit 500,000 tests “I have to say I admitted figures were at a day by the end of this 24 years later, British beef back on profoundly disagree. a much lower level than month. And I don’t think it’s in April but warned: “The He said seven its way to American dinner tables what the British people direction of travel for both Nightingale NHS The first shipments of want, I don’t think they hospitals and intensive hospitals had more than UK beef exported to the want to throw in the care is going in the wrong 2,000 beds for virus USA in 24 years took sponge. direction, particularly in patients and there was a place on Wednesday. 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