Sheffield news LIVE: Matt Hancock ‘absolutely open’ to delaying June 21 reopening
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Welcome to The Star’s live blog on Monday June 7 where you will be able to find a round-up of the latest coronavirus news and the biggest Sheffield news stories of the day.
Sheffield News LIVE:
Key Events
- Mum and four-month-old baby girl taken to hospital after crash in Sheffield
- Sheffield cops arrest ten people during 21 RAIDS in massive police day of action
- Covid vaccination for 18-plus at Sheffield Crucible Theatre
- UK Covid-19 hospital admissions highest since April
Police were called at around 11:30am on Wednesday 9 June to reports of a fight in Arundel Gate, Sheffield City Centre.
It is reported that a number of men were witnessed fighting, armed with a knife and a metal bar. The men then fled the scene.Police attended the scene and a 30-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. A 20-year-old man was taken to hospital via ambulance after suffering a serious stab wound. He remains in hospital in a serious but stable condition.Enquiries are ongoing and a cordon is in place in Norfolk Street whilst officers carry out their investigation. If you have any information that might help our officers, please call 101 quoting incident number 359 of 9 June.
Covid vaccination for 18-plus at Sheffield Crucible Theatre
The Crucible theatre will be hosting a covid vaccination clinic on Saturday 12 June from 9am.
Teen, 19, and young man shot and rushed to hospital after huge brawl on Sheffield street
Teen, 19, and young man shot and rushed to hospital after huge brawl on Sheffield street
Two men are in hospital after a street fight in Sheffield in which witnesses saw a gun and machetes brandished.
Sheffield criminals suffer rude awakening during huge early-morning police raids
Sheffield criminals suffer rude awakening during huge early-morning police raids
South Yorkshire Police is conducting a full day of action today to target and disrupt drug dealing and county lines networks linked to violent crime across Sheffield.
The victim of a reported stabbing in Sheffield city centre is currently being treated by emergency services at the scene
Sheffield road closed and victim being treated after reported city centre stabbing
The victim of a reported stabbing in Sheffield city centre is currently being treated by emergency services at the scene.
Police officer accepts responsibility for killing Sarah Everard
A police officer has accepted responsibility for killing Sarah Everard, a court heard.
Pc Wayne Couzens, 48, appeared at the Old Bailey on Tuesday, when he pleaded guilty to the kidnap and rape of Sarah Everard.
The court heard Couzens accepted responsibility for the killing of Ms Everard but was not asked to enter a plea to a charge of murder.
Marketing executive Ms Everard, 33, went missing as she walked home from a friend’s house in Clapham, south London, on March 3.
She was reported missing by her boyfriend on March 4 and her body was found hidden in an area of woodland in Ashford, Kent, on March 10.
The Metropolitan Police officer was wearing khaki trousers and a grey sweatshirt as he appeared by video link from Belmarsh jail.
He pleaded guilty to kidnapping Ms Everard “unlawfully and by force or fraud” on March 3.
He also pleaded guilty to a second charge of rape between March 2 and 10.
Couzens was not asked to enter a plea to her murder between March 2 and 10.
The defendant said: “Guilty, sir” when asked for his plea to the first two charges.
The court heard that responsibility for the killing was admitted but medical reports were awaited.
Members of Ms Everard’s family sat in court to witness the defendant enter his pleas.
A further hearing before Lord Justice Fulford is due to take place on July 9.
Asked about whether she thought the June 21 reopening would still go ahead, Dr Nikki Kanani, director of primary care at NHS England, told BBC Breakfast: “I think we’re doing everything we can.
“This vaccination programme has always promised that if we have the supply we will keep rolling out the programme, and as you can see on this really momentous day we’ve continued to do so.
“My message to anyone listening today is: Please, please come forward. If you get the message, either for your first dose, or your second dose, because that is the best thing that we can all do to start to get back to the lives that we love and that we’ve been missing.
“But the actual (decision on) June 21, that’s one for Government.”
Dr Nikki Kanani, director of primary care at NHS England, said that vaccine confidence in younger people had increased.
Speaking as over-25s were invited to book their Covid-19 jabs, Dr Kanani told BBC Breakfast: “We’re still seeing great uptake and we are definitely seeing younger people coming in and asking more questions, which is absolutely fine.
“More than four in five 40 to 49-year-olds have had their first dose and two-thirds of 30 to 39-year-olds have already had theirs, and that is still going to increase, of course, as people come forward, so uptake remains high.
“We had additional polling over the weekend that shows that the confidence in the vaccine has increased by a fifth – by 20% – in those under-40s.
“What’s really important as we go into the younger categories is really appealing to people in their own communities and what our teams have done so well is reflect what a community needs locally – whether that’s setting up pop-up (vaccination centres) in Gurudwaras or temples, or in shopping malls or at workplaces, that has been critical to making sure that people feel confident to take up the vaccine when they’re asked to do so.”
All adults aged 25 to 29 in England who have not yet had a Covid vaccine will be able to book their first dose from Tuesday.
- Dr Nikki Kanani, director of primary care at NHS England, praised NHS staff as the health service began offering Covid-19 vaccines to under-30s.
- She said that entering the final cohort on the vaccine priority list gave her “goosebumps”.
- “I remember that first day, like all of us will, I was in Croydon at the hospital there and we were watching the footage come in, and you could feel the difference in the air, it felt so special that we had hope and we had a way through the most difficult times that I think all of us have ever faced,” she told BBC Breakfast.
- “So, my huge thanks, eternal gratitude, to particular NHS teams in front of and behind the scenes who have really worked against all the odds to roll out this programme in an incredible way so that only six months later we can go into the final cohort, the final stages of this vaccination programme, and start offering that life-saving vaccination to over 25-year-olds.”
The Government said one more person had died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19 as of Monday, bringing the UK total to 127,841.
Separate figures published by the Office for National Statistics show there have now been 153,000 deaths registered in the UK where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate.
The Government also said that, as of 9am on Monday, there had been a further 5,683 lab-confirmed cases in the UK.