UK Covid: Sajid Javid warns country could hit 100,000 cases per day and urges people to get jabs – as it happened

Health secretary says ‘pandemic is not over’ but confirms UK will not implement its ‘plan B’ measures just now. This live blog has now closed – for global Covid updates,please follow this live blogJavid vows to protect NHS but says Covid cases could hit 100,000 a dayNo 10 to buy new antiviral treatments for Covid in time for winterComplacency holding back booster rollout in England, says NHS bossMorocco bans flights from UK, Germany and NetherlandsDame Cressida Dick, the Metropolitan police commissioner, told the London assembly this morning that it was a mistake for the Met, at a briefing, to suggest that women stopped by an undercover lone officer could, as a last resort,flag down a bus if they were worried. When asked about this at a hearing this morning, Dick said that a colleague had used that line after being “pressed, pressed, pressed” as to what to do if all else failed. She went on:I completely understand why that ended up as the headline. It was not intended. And that is not how we see things.And, yes, we have reviewed it. And I think we would, hopefully, address the question differently were it to come again in the future.The prime minister thinks he can continue to hide behind the NHS ’ successful vaccine rollout but he is undoing all of their hard work by proceeding with the careless attitude that this pandemic is over.In August the APPG on coronavirus warned how dropping all restrictions coupled with increased winter pressure could spell disaster...
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