Matt Hancock to lead Downing Street press conference at 5pm today
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mirror.co.ukHealth Secretary Matt Hancock will lead a Downing Street press conference at 5pm today. Mr Hancock will give an update on the coronavirus situation as the latest figures show the number of new Covid cases is rising in more than half of England's towns and cities, Despite a sharp fall in infection rates, analysis of Public Health England data shows that 163 of England's 315 local authority areas have seen a week-on-week rise in new cases.
But a new PHE study offered hope as it found that a single dose of the Covid jab could cut transmission by up to half. The research found that people given a single dose of either the Pfizer or Oxford vaccines - and who became infected at least three weeks later - were between 38% and 49% less likely to
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