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The latest Public Health England figures showing cases of the Delta variant have risen by 240% in a week should “set alarm bells ringing in government”, the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Coronavirus has said.

The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Coronavirus has warned that the UK government’s pledge to donate 100 million Covid vaccine doses, including just five million doses by the end of September, risks coming too late to save the many lives at risk from the virus right now in low and middle income countries.

The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Coronavirus has warned that Boris Johnson’s pledge to vaccinate the world by the end of 2022 would be “too little too late,” and urged the Prime Minister to make a “concrete commitment” to donate Covid vaccine doses to lower and middle-income countries ahead of next week’s G7 summit.

The APPG on Coronavirus has produced a report that cals on ministers to discourage all but essential overseas travel and introduce stronger protections against Covid-19 at the UK’s borders. It sets out a series of recommendations to ensure that the hard-won progress in tackling the virus is not lost and mistakes of the past are not repeated.

Responding to the latest Public Health England figures which found the Delta variant first identified in India has become the dominant strain in the UK, Layla Moran MP, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Coronavirus, said:

• Cross-party group of 116 MPs and peers warn the UK has a “moral imperative” to donate vaccine doses to Covax as millions of lives at risk.
  
  
• Boris Johnson urged to show “global leadership” ahead of next week’s G7 summit by pledging to donate one dose abroad for each one given in the UK.
  
  
• The UK should increase its own manufacturing capacity to become a “net vaccine exporter,” while supporting a patent waiver for vaccines to boost supply in low and middle-income countries.

Responding to Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi’s comments on care homes on the Andrew Marr show this morning, Layla Moran MP, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Coronavirus, said:

• Matt Hancock urged to apologise after figures reveal some long Covid patients are waiting over 100 days for treatment.
• Several of the long Covid clinics promised by the government appear still not up and running, an investigation by the APPG on Coronavirus has revealed.
• MPs are demanding more funding to treat long Covid patients and end the “postcode lottery” of care.

The chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Coronavirus has said the public inquiry into the pandemic must look into the delay adding India to the red list and whether it was “influenced by politics and not the science.”

Responding to the prime minister’s press conference today on the Indian variant, Layla Moran MP, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Coronavirus, said: