{"id":29896,"date":"2021-03-18T23:14:51","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T14:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/18\/matt-hancock-tells-mps-retest-on-covid-doses-and-delays-in-india-will-hit-uk-jabs"},"modified":"2021-03-18T23:14:51","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T14:14:51","slug":"matt-hancock-tells-mps-retest-on-covid-doses-and-delays-in-india-will-hit-uk-jabs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=29896","title":{"rendered":"Matt Hancock tells MPs retest on Covid doses and delays in India will hit UK jabs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Health secretary says timetable will not change, but government expert warns infections may rise because of delay vaccinating the under-50s <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/viewer.gutools.co.uk\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/viewer.gutools.co.uk\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Matt Hancock has said there will be a significant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/17\/nhs-covid-vaccine-rollout-under-50s-delayed-major-shortage\">dip in vaccine supply<\/a> in April, confirming supplies had been hit by a need to retest 1.7m doses and a delay in arrival of imports from India.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in the House of Commons, Hancock stressed the overall target timetable for vaccinations will not change but said he wanted to give more information, following the \u201cspeculation we\u2019ve seen overnight\u201d, after he was criticised for a press conference on Wednesday where the drop in supply went unexplained.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/18\/matt-hancock-tells-mps-retest-on-covid-doses-and-delays-in-india-will-hit-uk-jabs\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health secretary says timetable will not change, but government expert warns infections may rise because of delay vaccinating the under-50s Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageMatt Hancock has said there will be a significant di&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[918,1066,346,62,914,1152,512,916,4,299,79,61,52,565,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology","category-coronavirus","category-health","category-india","category-infectious-diseases","category-matt-hancock","category-medical-research","category-microbiology","category-politics","category-science","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","category-vaccines-and-immunisation","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29897,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29896\/revisions\/29897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}