Matt Hancock defends 1% pay rise for NHS workers
The authorities has been accused of rowing again on guarantees of a 2.1 per cent pay rise for well being workers previous to the coronavirus pandemic.
The Royal College of Nursing – the primary nurses’ union – has arrange a £35 million fund for nurses getting ready to strike in protest towards a advisable one per cent pay improve, whereas Unite, which represents tens of 1000’s of NHS staff, can also be warning of business motion.
NHS Providers, which represents all NHS trusts, claimed the federal government had factored within the bigger pay rise for 2021-22 because it too challenged the federal government’s insistence that one per cent is all it could possibly afford amid the present financial local weather.
The British public is being urged to hitch a mass sluggish handclap in protest towards the federal government’s proposed pay rise.
Unison, which is the biggest union within the UK, stated folks ought to stand on their doorsteps and balconies at 8pm on Thursday to point out what they give thought to the “derisory” wage plan.
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Government reveals new ‘exit allow’
The authorities revealed particulars of the brand new “Declaration to Travel” lower than 60 hours earlier than an unprecedented exit allow will likely be required from outbound travellers.
From Monday, anybody who enters “a port of departure to journey internationally” in England with no accomplished kind will likely be committing a prison offence – even when they’re legally entitled to journey.
Our journey correspondent Simon Calder explains:
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983,000 vaccine first doses given in Wales
Public Health Wales has stated a complete of 983,419 first doses of the Covid-19 vaccine have now been given in Wales, a rise of 16,377 from the day before today.
The company stated 168,163 second doses had additionally been given, a rise of 13,344.
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Rangers followers break Covid guidelines with Ibrox gathering
Rangers followers have damaged coronavirus lockdown guidelines in Scotland by gathering in numbers outdoors Ibrox Stadium setting off flares.
Fans have been seen crowding round a automotive getting into the bottom as police tried to carry them again.
Under coronavirus guidelines, public gatherings are banned and a most of two folks from two households are allowed to satisfy outdoor.
Football video games are happening behind closed doorways with no followers within the stadium.
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Portugal to quarantine passengers on oblique flights from UK and Brazil
Passengers flying not directly to Portugal from Britain or Brazil should current a unfavourable Covid-19 take a look at taken 72 hours earlier than departure and quarantine for 2 weeks upon arrival from Sunday onwards, the inside ministry has introduced.
The transfer is designed to shut a loophole which allowed travellers from Britain and Brazil to achieve Portugal by stopping over in a rustic from which journey was authorised.
Chiara Giordano6 March 2021 13:20
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Ireland approaching half 1,000,000 vaccination mark
Ireland is predicted to achieve the milestone of half 1,000,000 coronavirus jabs administered this weekend.
Taoiseach Micheal Martin hailed progress within the pandemic.
Speaking in a video posted on Twitter, Mr Martin stated he was impressed by latest visits to vaccination centres the place 1000’s of entrance line healthcare staff are receiving the inoculation.
He stated authorities and the HSE is doing every thing it could possibly to safe provides and to present these vaccines to folks as rapidly as attainable.
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Protesters injured in police clashes over Paraguay’s Covid response
Around 20 folks have been injured in clashes with police throughout protests over the Paraguayan authorities’s dealing with of the coronavirus disaster.
Hundreds of rioters, primarily younger folks, took to the streets of the capital, Asuncion, amid rising outrage that coronavirus infections had hit document ranges and hospitals verged on collapse all through the South American nation.
Tom Ambrose has extra particulars:
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EU reportedly seeks entry to US-produced AstraZeneca vaccines
The European Union will reportedly urge the United States to allow the export of tens of millions of doses of AstraZeneca’s Covid vaccine because it scrambles to bridge provide shortfalls.
The 27-nation EU additionally needs Washington to make sure the free move of shipments of essential vaccine elements wanted in European manufacturing, in response to the Financial Times.
“We belief that we will work along with the US to make sure that vaccines produced or bottled within the US for the fulfilment of vaccine producers’ contractual obligations with the EU will likely be totally honoured,” the FT quoted the European Commission as saying.
EU nations began inoculations on the finish of December, however are transferring at a far slower tempo than different wealthy nations, together with the UK and US.
Chiara Giordano6 March 2021 12:23
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Now is ‘flawed time’ for NHS pay restraint, says former Tory well being minister
A former Conservative well being minister has stated it’s the “flawed time” to be restraining the pay of NHS staff who’ve gone “above and past” in the course of the pandemic.
In an indication {that a} Conservative riot over the federal government’s 1% pay rise suggestion could also be brewing, MP Dr Dan Poulter has referred to as for a rethink on the proposal.
Dr Poulter, who has been aiding on the NHS entrance line in the course of the pandemic, stated it’s “very legitimate” for ministers to show their consideration to paying again the £400 billion borrowed in the course of the coronavirus disaster – however it’s the “flawed time to be making this choice”.
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NHS could should take care of ‘1,000,000 folks with lengthy Covid’ after pandemic
A number one physician has estimated the NHS should deal with as much as 1,000,000 folks for lengthy Covid within the aftermath of the pandemic.
My colleague Emily Goddard explains:
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Court workers to strike over Covid security fears
Staff will go on strike in two courts over coronavirus security issues, amid claims staff are being “deeply let down” and left “apprehensive for his or her security”.
Members of the Public and Commercial Services union at Liverpool Law Courts and Snaresbrook Crown Court, in east London, backed industrial motion.
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