Health Secretary Matt Hancock sidestepped a question referencing the controversy at a Downing Street coronavirus press conference on Monday. Mr Johnson was seen at the Olympic Park in east London on Sunday afternoon cycling with members of his security detail, it was claimed. The mission will visit Wuhan in China, where the first cluster of cases was detected in December 2019.īoris Johnson has been accused of hypocrisy by a Labour MP following reports the Prime Minister went cycling seven miles from his home after imposing sweeping Covid restrictions on others. 'We are looking for the answers here, not culprits and not people to blame.'Įxperts say solving the mystery of how the virus first jumped from animals to humans is crucial to preventing another pandemic. 'It is an absolute requirement that we understand that interface. 'It is about finding the scientific answers about the very important interface between the animal kingdom and the human kingdom. 'Understanding the origins of disease is not about finding somebody to blame,' Ryan told a press conference in Geneva. Ten international experts will visit China from Thursday to probe the origins of the new coronavirus, more than a year after the pandemic began and amid accusations that Beijing has tried to thwart the investigation. WHO emergencies director Michael Ryan said the delayed mission - finally given the green light by Beijing - was about science, not politics. The World Health Organization insisted Monday that the international investigation into the Covid-19 pandemic's origins, set to start this week in China, was not looking for 'somebody to blame'.

Indonesia is the first country outside of China to grant emergency use approval to Sinovac Biotech’s coronavirus vaccine on Monday amid surging infections and deaths.

Mainland China saw its biggest daily increase in Covid-19 cases in over five months on Monday, prompting officials to place more than half a million people under lockdown in Beijing.

France should consider closing its borders with the UK and other countries that have a strong presence of the UK variant, a French epidemiologist and government adviser has said.

The health body also hopes to be able to launch Covid-19 vaccines in poor and lower middle-income countries in February through its COVAX programme, WHO Senior Adviser Bruce Aylward said on Monday.

The World Health Organization says it has been notified of a new variant of the coronavirus present in Japan.

Morrisons have announced they'll ban shoppers who won't wear a mask unless they are medically exempt.Matt Hancock also ruled out the cancellation of support bubbles, which has been suggested as a way of cutting the transmission rate of Covid.Meanwhile a quarter of care home residents have been vaccinated already, with 2.6 million doses of the vaccine administered to around 2.3 million people across the UK, the Health Secretary told Monday's press conference.Around 32,294 people are currently in hospital with coronavirus across the UK.

The number of people in hospital with Covid has already gone up by a third since Christmas Day.Britain recorded 46,169 new Covid-19 cases on Monday, government statistics showed, with 529 more deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test.

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