Christmas Day TV ratings lowest ever
your household or bubble. The exercise should ideally be limited to once per day. Guidance is that people should try to do this locally.
To provide care or help to a vulnerable person
To attend medical appointments or seek medical care or fleeing the threat of harm or violence.
Schools must stay closed until at least February 15, which is the first day of the spring half-term.
Police will be legally allowed to enforce the rules through dispersing orders and fines. The amount you can be fined will not change, so it ranges from £200 for first offences up to £10,000 for repeat and serious offenders.
People who have already been vaccinated for coronavirus are not exempt from any of the rules.
MPs will be asked to vote on the measures when they return to Parliament.
In his address to the nation the Prime Minister said: “I want to say to everyone right across the UK that I know how tough this is.
“And I know how frustrated you are and I know that you have had more than enough of Government guidance about defeating this virus.
“But now, more than ever, we must pull together.”
He warned that ‘the weeks ahead will be the hardest yet’ but ‘with every jab that goes into our arms, we are tilting the odds against Covid and in favour of the British people.’
“Thanks to the miracle of science not only is the end in sight but we know exactly how we will get there.”
The Prime Minister said there was ‘one huge difference’ compared to last year: “We’re now rolling out the biggest vaccination programme in our history.”
“So far we in the UK have vaccinated more people than in the rest of Europe combined,” he added.
He said the pace of vaccination was ‘accelerating’ with the arrival of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine.
Mr Johnson outlined the NHS’s ‘realistic expectations’ for the vaccination programme in the coming weeks.
He said: “By the middle of February, if things go well and with a fair wind in our sails, we expect to have offered the first vaccine dose to everyone in the four top priority groups identified by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation.” Mr Johnson said that meant ‘vaccinating all residents in a care home for older adults and their carers, everyone over the age of 70, all frontline health and social care workers and everyone who is clinically extremely vulnerable.’
“If we succeed in vaccinating all those groups, we will have removed huge numbers of people from the path of the virus,” the Prime Minister said.
“And of course that will eventually enable us to lift many of the restrictions we’ve endured for so long.”
Mr Johnson said that the country should ‘remain cautious about the timetable ahead’ due to the time lag in people receiving immunity from vaccines.
He said: “I must emphasise that even if we achieve this goal there remains a time lag of two to three weeks from getting a jab to receiving immunity and there will be a further time lag before the pressure on the NHS is lifted.”
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2020 saw the lowest TV ratings for a Christmas Day since records began, new figures show.
The most-watched programme on December 25 last month was Call the Midwife on BBC One, with a TV audience of 8 million.
This is more than half a million below the 8.7 million who saw Call the Midwife in 2018, which previously held the record for the lowest ratings for a most-watched
Christmas Day show. And it was a sharp drop from the 17.1 million who saw the special episode of Gavin and Stacey that was broadcast on BBC One on December 25, 2019.
The TV ratings for Christmas Day 2020 - which also included 6.7 million for BBC One’s Strictly Come Dancing and 6.5 million for ITV’s Coronation Street - reflect a long-term decline in audiences driven partly by a change in viewing habits, as more people access a range of programmes on demand through platforms such as the BBC iPlayer or ITV Hub, and via streaming services such as Netflix.
The TV audience for the mostwatched show on Christmas Day 2020 was down 55 per cent compared with 1990 (Only Fools and Horses).