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HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateYes, absolutely. I want to thank everybody across Norfolk and Waveney for the work they have been doing to roll out this vaccine. It is a critical part of the country in terms of…09 Feb 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateI want to thank our nation’s dentists, who have worked incredibly hard to get dentistry services going again. It is very important that we support them and that the financial…09 Feb 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateYes. When we see the community transmission of a variant of concern, we send in extra testing, and sequence all the positives to try to find any other variant of concern nearby.…09 Feb 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateYes. Stoke-on-Trent has been ably and effectively represented in this discussion, and everybody across Stoke deserves praise for the work that they are doing to drive up the…09 Feb 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateWe have had significant measures at the border throughout. The new, stronger measures are necessary because of the arrival around the world of new variants of concern at the same…09 Feb 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateI was listening very carefully to the hon. Gentleman, and I think I take that as support for the measures we are bringing in. On the specific points the hon. Gentleman raises, he…09 Feb 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateThe hon. Lady raises an important point, which is taken into account in the work that we are doing to push forward high-quality ventilation, which is good for tackling carbon…09 Feb 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateI talk to my Israeli counterpart regularly, and I am impressed by the effort that Israel has delivered on to vaccinate its population. I am very happy to look into the detailed…09 Feb 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateI agree with every word the hon. Lady has said. This is an incredibly important effort by the people of Bristol, especially those in the postcodes that were identified. I want to…09 Feb 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateThe hon. Lady would get a better hearing if she started on this subject by congratulating AstraZeneca, the British player in this vaccine race, on the fact that it is rolling out…09 Feb 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateMy right hon. Friend the Transport Secretary has looked into the issue about DVLA that the hon. Lady raises, and Public Health Wales has been involved in advising DVLA, which is…09 Feb 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateI will absolutely look into the suggestion that my hon. Friend makes, which is all about making sure that we reach out to people at a moment when everybody, or almost everybody,…09 Feb 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateWe have the biggest genomic capacity in the world by some margin, and when the number of cases comes down, as our genomic capacity continues to expand—we plan to more than double…09 Feb 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateWe have put in place the extra £500 for those on low incomes to ensure that everybody can get the financial support that they may need while self-isolating.09 Feb 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateYes, I will. My hon. Friend rightly raises a very important subject. I will make sure that that is properly taken into account.09 Feb 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateThe measures I have outlined today relate to passenger travel. There is, of course, a testing regime already in place for accompanied freight. There is a difference between this…09 Feb 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateWhat the public want to see, in Stourbridge and across the whole UK, is people working together to defeat this virus. Some of the measures have to be tough, and some are…09 Feb 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateI agree with my hon. Friend that a combination of mass testing, vaccinations and tough enforcement is not only right to deal with this virus but, as he says, fair for people who…09 Feb 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateWith permission, I would like to make a statement on new measures to keep this country safe from coronavirus. Thanks to our collective efforts, we are turning a corner. Cases of…09 Feb 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateThe hon. Gentleman raises important points, which are addressed in two ways in what I just announced. First, anybody who has been in a red-list country in the past 10 days must…09 Feb 2021