{"id":30495,"date":"2021-04-02T18:40:08","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T09:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2021\/apr\/02\/covid-live-news-coronavirus-vaccine-passports-latest-updates"},"modified":"2021-04-03T00:28:50","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T15:28:50","slug":"covid-live-news-england-bans-travel-from-pakistan-bangladesh-kenya-and-the-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30495","title":{"rendered":"Covid live: Boris Johnson warns UK against indoor Easter gatherings; Vatican vaccinates homeless people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018We just need to be cautious,\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2021\/apr\/02\/covid-live-news-coronavirus-vaccine-passports-latest-updates?page=with:block-606722d88f083302090e2ca6#block-606722d88f083302090e2ca6\">warns British prime ministe<\/a>r; 1,200 homeless and vulnerable people <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2021\/apr\/02\/covid-live-news-coronavirus-vaccine-passports-latest-updates?page=with:block-6066ff5e8f087a7cbd51dd3c#block-6066ff5e8f087a7cbd51dd3c\">to be given jabs in Rome<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/02\/covid-england-adds-pakistan-bangladesh-kenya-and-philippines-to-travel-red-list\">Pakistan, Bangladesh, Kenya and Philippines on England travel \u2018red list\u2019<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2021\/apr\/02\/covid-further-rare-blood-clot-cases-found-in-oxford-astrazeneca-recipients\">Further rare blood clot cases found in Oxford\/AstraZeneca recipients<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/02\/europe-easter-covid-restrictions-curfews-quarantines-coronavirus\">Curfews and quarantines: Europe\u2019s Easter of Covid restrictions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/02\/really-good-place-israel-nearing-covid-endgame\">\u2018We\u2019re in a really good place\u2019: is Israel nearing the Covid endgame?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2021\/apr\/02\/senior-tories-join-jeremy-corbyn-to-oppose-covid-passports-ahead-of-trials\">Senior Tories join Jeremy Corbyn to oppose Covid passports<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2021-04-02T15:20:10.486Z\">4.20pm <span class=\"timezone\">BST<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p>The latest UK coronavirus figures have been released in a continuing sign that cases are declining. <\/p>\n<p>Fifty-two more people have died in the <strong>UK<\/strong> within 28 days of receiving a positive coronavirus test, and 3,402 new confirmed cases of coronavirus have been detected, according to the latest figures published on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The seven-day total of deaths was 302, down 38.2% on the seven previous days; for positive tests the seven day figure was 29,204, down 26.6%. The estimated R number was given as 0.7 to 0.9, with a daily infection growth rate range of -5% to -2% as of 26 March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2021-04-02T15:13:02.778Z\">4.13pm <span class=\"timezone\">BST<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p>Government U-turns and infighting combined with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/27\/dublin-hospital-gave-surplus-covid-jabs-to-staff-at-private-school\">hospital vaccine blunders<\/a> cast a sense of disarray over Ireland\u2019s pandemic response, my colleague <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/profile\/rorycarroll\">Rory Carroll<\/a> reports:<\/p>\n<p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/02\/irish-government-authority-frays-amid-fears-new-covid-wave-vaccine-blunders\">Irish government&#8217;s authority frays amid fears of new Covid wave<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2021\/apr\/02\/covid-live-news-coronavirus-vaccine-passports-latest-updates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018We just need to be cautious,\u2019 warns British prime minister; 1,200 homeless and vulnerable people to be given jabs in RomePakistan, Bangladesh, Kenya and Philippines on England travel \u2018red list\u2019Further rare blood clot cases found in Oxford\/AstraZeneca &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1927,"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":[401,41,918,531,1066,914,512,916,1075,4,299,52,565,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-asia-pacific","category-biology","category-boris-johnson","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-medical-research","category-microbiology","category-nhs","category-politics","category-science","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\/30495","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\/1927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30495"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30513,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30495\/revisions\/30513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}