Should we be worried about the new COVID variant?
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
All over-65s will be offered the jab during the next few weeks.
The other nations are also beginning their vaccination programmes this month.
On the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson is joined by Professor Susan Hopkins, chief medical adviser at the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), to discuss the new variant, and the importance of getting vulnerable people vaccinated.
Plus, our chief correspondent Stuart Ramsey talks to Niall from the epicentre of the earthquake in Morocco, which has killed 2,500 people so far.
Producers: Emma Rae Woodhouse and Soila Apparicio
Interviews Producer: Melissa Tutesigensi
Promotions Producer: David Chipakupaku
Editor: Wendy Parker
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| 1:14.4 | But we begin in Morocco. |
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| 1:21.3 | It's epicenter, a group of remote villages in the Atlas Mountains, 45 miles south of Marrakesh. |
| 1:28.3 | More than 2,000 deaths have been identified so far. |
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