Times Front Page 20th of January 2021
Ministers are concerned about a dip in the UK vaccine roll-out as supplies of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine fall while the drugs maker upgrades its factory, The Times reports.
Ministers are concerned about a dip in the UK vaccine roll-out as supplies of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine fall while the drugs maker upgrades its factory, The Times reports.
Teachers and police should be “rushed to the front of the queue” for the COVID jab, the Daily Mirror reports. It says Met Police chief Cressida Dick wants officers to be vaccinated to protect them from people who cough and spit at them.
The i says the UK vaccination strategy could change in the coming months to target people who are more likely to pass on the virus, such as office workers who use public transport, teachers and police.The paper says ministers want to protect against a potential “autumn resurgence”.
Boris Johnson has warned that sticking to lockdown rules is “as important as ever” as the UK reported a record 1,610 daily coronavirus deaths, the Daily Express reports.
The Daily Star has a bit of fun with the final hours of Donald Trump’s presidency before Joe Biden takes over in the White House on Wednesday.
Former prime minister Theresa May has written an article in the Daily Mail in which she accuses Boris Johnson of abandoning the country’s “position of global moral leadership” and failing to honour British values.
Joe Biden will launch a “blitz” on some of Donald Trump’s most controversial policies, such as overturning limits on immigration from mainly Muslim countries, reports The Daily Telegraph.He is also set to sign up once more to the Paris climate agreement.
Plans for daily mass testing of teachers and pupils in England are to be halted in light of new health advice, according to The Guardian.It says the move casts doubt over the reopening of schools after lockdown.
Metro celebrates the end of Donald Trump’s time in power and notes that he will be the first president since 1869 not to attend his successor’s inauguration.