9 out of ten Covid sufferers being handled in intensive care haven’t had their booster jab, Well being Secretary Sajid Javid has revealed as he launches a fierce assault on ‘anti-vaccination fanatics’.
Writing in at the moment’s Mail on Sunday, Mr Javid additionally says he finds it ‘disappointing’ tennis star Novak Djokovic – presently in a detention centre in Australia after being denied entry to the nation over his refusal to have a vaccine – has been ‘fuelling scepticism’ concerning the jabs.
The Well being Secretary reveals how a marketing consultant at King’s Faculty Hospital in London informed him on Friday {that a} ‘stunning 70 per cent of Covid sufferers taking over beds in intensive care had been unvaccinated… And but that very same marketing consultant, who had seen this for himself, later informed me that he personally nonetheless hadn’t had a vaccine.’
It comes after Mr Javid was confronted at his home final weekend by protesters who informed his daughter that he was a ‘assassin’.
Writing in at the moment’s Mail on Sunday, Mr Javid (pictured) additionally says he finds it ‘disappointing’ tennis star Novak Djokovic – presently in a detention centre in Australia after being denied entry to the nation over his refusal to have a vaccine – has been ‘fuelling scepticism’ concerning the jabs
He stated the newest knowledge confirmed individuals who haven’t been vaccinated are as much as eight occasions extra prone to be hospitalised with Covid, with 90 per cent of these admitted to intensive care not having a booster – and greater than 60 per cent not having had any vaccination in any respect.
He writes: ‘Most individuals who haven’t but been vaccinated have real considerations and usually are not excessive anti-vaxxers like those that focused me.
‘However we have to name out the harmful nonsense pushed round by some as a result of as we have progressed by this pandemic the case for getting the jab has solely turn into extra overwhelming.’
Pictured: The newest coronavirus statistics
Mr Javid’s intervention got here as:
- The UK grew to become the seventh nation to cross 150,000 Covid deaths. An additional 313 had been reported yesterday – up nearly 40 per cent week on week – taking the full to 150,057;
- The variety of new constructive exams fell for the third day in a row to 146,390, however there have been 2,434 hospital admissions, a week-on-week rise of 58 per cent;
- Scientists who warned in December of as much as 75,000 Omicron deaths except new restrictions got here in admitted the newest wave was far much less extreme than they predicted;
- Some NHS medics are carrying purple ribbons to point out their opposition to the coverage that every one healthcare employees have to be vaccinated;
- The Authorities is reportedly drawing up plans to restrict the allocation of free lateral circulation exams to high-risk settings corresponding to care properties, hospitals and colleges, amid provide issues;
- A MoS investigation discovered 6 million individuals within the UK are following social media accounts that unfold anti-vax propaganda;
- The US agency Moderna stated it’s engaged on a joint flu and Covid jab that may very well be accessible subsequent yr;
- Courtroom paperwork filed in Australia by Djokovic’s attorneys stated that he examined constructive for Covid-19 on December 16. The Serb participant confronted speedy questions when images emerged of hugging kids the next day.