Covid-19: Care home staff in England may have to get jab, and long airport queues

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Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday evening.

Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday evening. We'll have another update for you tomorrow morning.Care home staff in England could be required to receive a coronavirus vaccine,Scientific advisers have estimated that 80% of staff and 90% of residents need to be vaccinated to provide a minimum level of protection against outbreaks of the virus. NHS England figures show 78.9% of older adult care home staff have had a jab.

Some travellers to Heathrow Airport are facing waits of up to six hours because of extensive Covid checks, the airport has said. Chris Garton, chief solutions officer at Heathrow, told MPs thatForeign travel is only permitted for certain reasons at the moment and Mr Garton said the queues would become a "much bigger" problem if rules on foreign travel were relaxed on 17 May, as the government is planning.

over possible links to extremely rare blood clots. Drug watchdog the European Medicines Agency last week announced a possible link with clots but said the risk of dying of Covid-19 was much greater. Some other European countries have limited the jab's use to older age groups. Here we take a closer look at

 

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