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Coronavirus digest: Pope calls COVID vaccine aversion ‘suicidal denial’

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Pope Francis says those who refuse the coronavirus vaccine are playing with their health and also the lives of others. Meanwhile, Britain has managed to raise $1 billion in global vaccine donations. DW has the latest.

Hogan still puzzled by delay in approval for Maryland National Guard assistance during Capitol riot | TheHill

“So, our Guard mobilized and was ready. But we couldn’t actually cross over the border into D.C. without the OK. And that was quite some time. We kept running it up the flagpole, our generals talking to the National Guard generals. And, eventually, I got a call from Ryan McCarthy, the secretary of the Army, asking if we could come into the city. But we had already been mobilizing,” Hogan told CNN’s Jake Tapper. Source: Hogan still puzzled by delay in approval for Maryland National Guard assistance during Capitol riot | TheHill

Starmer accepts end of EU free movement in Brexit reversal

If you cannot lead, move out of the way for someone who can. Britain does not need you to carry Boris’ water.

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Labour leader rules out extensive renegotiation if party wins next election

Keir Starmer has abandoned the commitment to free movement of people in the European Union he made to Labour members during the party’s leadership contest.

The Labour leader said his party had to be honest with the public, and that if it won the next general election a major renegotiation of the Brexit treaty would not be possible.

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NHS Covid-19 jab letters ‘confusing over 80s’ – BBC News

Dr Sarah Raistrick, from Coventry and Rugby Clinical Commission group (CCG), said people did not have to travel to the centres but admitted the letter did not make that clear.

“You can wait and be contacted by your local GP service and have it locally if you’d prefer.

“If you sit tight, you will be contacted and I’m hopeful that if you’re 80 or over, by the end of this month you will have had your vaccination whether that is locally or whether you have chosen to travel,” she said.

Work will be done with the NHS locally and nationally to make that message clearer, she added.

The seven centres were chosen to give a geographical spread covering as many people as possible and are capable of delivering thousands of jabs per week, NHS England has said.

Source: NHS Covid-19 jab letters ‘confusing over 80s’ – BBC News

Israel’s massive vaccine drive isn’t keeping up with new cases — especially among younger victims

For the first time since the pandemic started, Israel now says more than a quarter of its most serious Covid-19 cases, where hospitalization is required, are in patients under the age of 60.

The Israeli Ministry of Health is placing the blame squarely on a new strain first discovered in the United Kingdom last month.

Dr. Itamar Grotto, the associate director-general of the Israeli Ministry of Health explained: “This is because the new U.K. variant is more infectious, mainly among young people and children.”

Source: Israel’s massive vaccine drive isn’t keeping up with new cases — especially among younger victims