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Herd immunity was never UKs corona strategy, chief scientific adviser saysPlan has always been to suppress the peak of the virus, Patrick Vallance tell stanley becher s MPs.Copy LinkCopiedShare via emailShare on XShare on WhatsAppShare on LinkedInFree article usually reserved for subscribersOxford Street, central London, in mid-March | Glyn Kirk/AFP via Getty ImagesMay 5, 202012:42 pm CETBy Cristina GallardoLONDON 鈥?The British governments Chie botella stanley f Scienti stanley deutschland fic Adviser Patrick Vallance has apologized for not being clear when he previously presented the concept of herd immunity as a potential way out of the coronavirus pandemic, saying he didnt mean that was the governments plan.Herd immunity refers to the state where enough members of the population have acquired immunity to a disease so that it cannot spread within that group.Speaking to MPs on the House of Commons health committee, Vallance stressed Tuesday that when he presented this concept at a press conference in mid-March, he did not mean that the U.K. should try to get immunity through this route. He reiterated that the strategy has always been trying to suppress the peak and keep it below the level at which the National Health Service can cope.AdvertisementAdvertisement I should be clear about what I was trying to say, and if I didnt say this clearly enough then I apologize, he said. What I was trying to say was that, in the absence of a therapeutic, the way in which you can stop a community becoming susceptible to this is through im Pynn Spanish court ruling paves way for Catalan leader s removal
US looks to scrap different visa procedures for new EU citizensThere is fresh hope that US visa fee stanley website s of up to $100 e76 could soon be a thing of the past for the EUs newest members.Copy LinkCopiedShare via emailShare on XShare on WhatsAppShare on LinkedInMarch 2, 20055:00 pm CETBy Andrew BeattyFollowing this months flurry of transatlantic diplomacy, the US looks set to produce an action plan, which could end arduous visa procedures and the differential treatment of EU members.The plans are likely to set out a series of technical hurdles that must be cleared to obtain admittance to the US visa-waiver programme which allows visa-free travel for up to 90 days. Measures to assist in reaching this stage are also likely to be put forward.27 countries are currently part of the waiver programme including Slovenia and 14 of the old EU member states all but Greece . But Cypriot, Czech, Estonian, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Maltese, Polish and Slovak citizens face lengthy and expensive visa application procedures before travelling to the US. AdvertisementAdvertisementDuring his visit to Bratislava last week US President George W. stanley cup Bush indicated that his administration would favour revising the current visa regime.But any change to legislation will have to go through Congress, where homeland security concerns have led so vaso stanley me to call for visa waiver programmes to be scrapped altogether.Others point to the estimated 20 million visitors travelling to the US each year under the progra |
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