Boris Johnson says more time needed to combat Delta variant and allow more people to be vaccinated
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Boris Johnson has announced a four-week delay to the final lockdown easing and a speeding up of second vaccine doses, saying the extra time could prevent thousands of unnecessary deaths.
Johnson said the data was now clear that two doses of the vaccine were needed to combat the new Delta variant and it was right to allow more time to give millions more people second doses. “We have the chance – in the next four weeks – to save many thousands of lives by vaccinating millions more people,” he said.
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