ITV News published this video item, entitled “Live: Matt Hancock updates MPs amid issues around vaccine supply” – below is their description.
The Health Secretary is joined by Deputy Chief Medical officer Jonathan Van-Tam and Public Health England’s Head of Immunisation Dr Mary Ramsey.
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ITV News is the branding of news programmes on the British television network ITV. Independent Television News (ITN) was founded to provide news bulletins for the network in 1955, and has since continued to produce all news programmes on ITV.
ITV (LSE: ITV) is a broadcasting company which was formed from a merger of Granada plc and Carlton Communications in 2004. It holds Channel 3 broadcasting licences in England, Wales, Southern Scotland and the Isle of Man.
Jonathan Stafford Nguyen Van-Tam MBE, sometimes referred to by his initials JVT, is a British specialist in influenza, including its epidemiology, transmission, vaccinology, antiviral drugs and pandemic preparedness. Van-Tam has served as the Deputy Chief Medical Officer for England since 2 October 2017.
Matt Hancock is a British Member of Parliament, who is serving as Health Secretary under Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Hancock was alleged to have been having an affair, after photographs emerged of him apparently kissing a woman at his Ministerial workplace were published by The Sun newspaper on 25 June 2021.
A vaccine is a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular infectious disease. A vaccine typically contains an agent that resembles a disease-causing microorganism and is often made from weakened or killed forms of the microbe, its toxins, or one of its surface proteins.
