"I need to know far more about it" - Londoners give cautious welcome to COVID vaccine news

Record ID: 1585961

  • Title: "I need to know far more about it" - Londoners give cautious welcome to COVID vaccine news
  • Date: 10th November 2020
  • Summary: LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (NOVEMBER 10, 2020) (REUTERS) BUS DRIVING DOWN STREET WOMAN WALKING IN FRONT OF CLOSED SHOPS SIGN CALLING FOR SOCIAL DISTANCING IN SHUTTERED SHOP SHUTTERED SHOPS VARIOUS OF PEOPLE IN PARKS (SOUNDBITE) (English) RETIREE, JOHN MITCHELL, SAYING: "I think we've had a public announcement that the vaccine looks promising. There's no real detail there yet. So no, I'd want to hear more, know more. But certainly when a vaccine is developed, I would be in line to take it, yeah." BIRDS IN LAKE KIDS PLAYING BY LAKE (SOUNDBITE) (English) COUNCILLOR, ASA VAID, SAYING: "I mean, it's really positive, but I think it is a long way still, but I think that's what we needed to hear. You know, it gives you a boost to think that there's a way out of this and that it's happening soon." PEOPLE WALKING PAST LAKE (SOUNDBITE) (English) ORGANISATIONAL DESIGN CONSULTANT, PETER BROWNELL, SAYING: "I'd be, I wouldn't initially take it because, yeah, well, I need to know far more about it. I think I need to think about what it means for kids and that's sort of thing. So I wouldn't jump at it straight away, but I would be paying attention to learn more about it before I got the whole family straight in there." FASHION DESIGNER, JUDEA BOGLE, SITTING ON BENCH (SOUNDBITE) (English) FASHION DESIGNER, JUDEA BOGLE, SAYING: "Well, I won't be taking the vaccine, everybody I speak to, no one says they want to take it, but I believe they're going to try and enforce it on people." VEHICLES ON STREET SHUTTERED PUB VARIOUS OF SIGN READING (English) "WE ARE IN THIS TOGETHER"
  • Embargoed: 24th November 2020 12:34
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  • Location: LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM
  • City: LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Topics: Europe,Health/Medicine
  • Reuters ID: LVA001D3ZJMMF
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Londoners welcomed the news of a new vaccine on Tuesday (November 10), but many said they wanted more information before taking it.
    News on Monday (November 9) that a vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech was more than 90% effective sparked a surge in financial markets around the world, a rare piece of good news in the fight against a disease that has killed more than a million people.
    The British government has asked the National Health Service to be ready to deploy any COVID vaccine from the start of December and it will then roll it out, starting with the most vulnerable, the health minister said on Tuesday.
    An 80% uptake of a COVID-19 vaccine may be needed to protect communities from the novel coronavirus, but volatile levels of misinformation and vaccine mistrust could undermine efforts to tackle the pandemic, British scientists said on Tuesday.
    A report by scientific institutions the British Academy and the Royal Society found that, in part due to circulating misinformation and behavioural factors, around 36% of people in Britain say they are either uncertain or very unlikely to agree to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
    (Production: Natalie Thomas)
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