⛔ Traffic through one of the world's busiest waterways remains halted in both directions by the 400-metre long Ever Given cargo ship
💨 Officials are blaming strong winds for pushing the ship sideways, causing a queue of at least 100 vessels seeking to transit between the Red Sea and Mediterranean.
🚦 Delays removing the ship could have major knock-on effects for global shipping.
"Every day, 50 vessels on average go through that canal, so the closing of the canal means no vessels are transiting north and south" former merchant mariner, Prof Mercogliano said
🗓️ The Ever Given had travelled through Taipei and Malaysia, and was scheduled to arrive in Rotterdam at the end of the month.
It arrived in the Suez Canal on Monday night before getting stuck on Tuesday. It remains jammed early on Wednesday... telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/03/2…
🛥️ 🛥️ 🛥️ The ship’s bow was touching the canal's eastern wall, while its stern looks to be lodged against its western wall.
Several tug boats are surrounding the ship, attempting to push it the right way
Authorities are expected to try removing sand from around the areas where the vessel is grounded, an operation that may take days telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/03/2…
💉 EU politicians and diplomats are under extreme pressure to explain to voters why the bloc has managed to vaccinate barely 12% of its eligible population, while it continues to export millions of doses of different vaccines abroad
⏰ European leaders will meet tomorrow to take steps to prevent vaccines being exported to countries that have their own manufacturing capability and a strong vaccine drive.
This could restrict Britain's supply of jabs, which could put the UK’s vaccine rollout back by two months
🌎 In March last year, as the pandemic spread around the world, Derek, 53, was admitted to hospital with severe Covid and placed in a medically-induced coma
Although coronavirus has not been present in Derek’s body since June, he is still fighting its long-term effects including:
📌 Kidney failure
📌 Damage to his liver and pancreas
📌 Heart failure
📌 Bacterial pneumonia
📌 A hole in his lungs
The Prime Minister begins addressing the nation from Downing Street by talking about all the sacrifices that have been made from the population, a year on from when we first went into lock down.
Associate Editor of The Daily Telegraph @GordonRayner analyses the one year of lockdown the past that led to over 126,000 deaths in the UK
Here’s what he found ⬇️
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🗓️Downing Street insiders say a meeting on March 14, 2020 was the moment lockdown became inevitable.
It would be 9 more days until the PM issued his historic “stay at home” direction – a delay that senior figures in Government now admit was a mistake telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/03/1…
🔴The PM accepts it was a mistake to delay the first national lockdown, close allies have said, while insisting the he was let down by scientific advisers.