Britons over 70 will be given Covid-19 vaccine booster jabs in September to protect them from new variants of the virus. Vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi unveiled details of the new plan with the first booster doses given to people in the top four priority groups. As well as over-70s, this group contains frontline NHS and social … Read more
Britons over 70 will be given Covid-19 vaccine booster jabs in September to protect them from new variants of the virus. Vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi unveiled details of the new plan with the first booster doses given to people in the top four priority groups. As well as over-70s, this group contains frontline NHS and social … Read more
Will the vaccine delay affect lockdown timetable or lead to a bigger ‘exit wave’ of Covid cases? The pause in Britain’s vaccine drive will mean that fewer Britons are vaccinated when Britain starts to reopen the economy on 12 April – but ministers have insisted the timetable will not be affected despite predictions of an … Read more
Mass coronavirus vaccination sites across the UK have announced they will close temporarily next month due to looming supply issues – as Matt Hancock revealed the jabs have saved at least 6,000 lives already in the UK. Vaccine centres in Devon, Cornwall and Kent are among those to have confirm they will ‘have to pause’ during … Read more
The CEO of an Indian drug company due to supply the UK with AstraZeneca vaccines is said to have agreed to pay £50,000 a week for a Mayfair home. Adar Poonawalla, the flashy billionaire head of the Serum Institute in India, will reportedly lease the 25,000 sq ft mansion from Polish billionaire Dominika Kulczyk. According to … Read more
Hundreds of desperate Irish residents try to book jabs in NORTHERN Ireland where half the population has been vaccinated – compared to just 10% south of the border People from as far as Dublin and Galway have even been making the journey Around half the adult population has now been inoculated in Northern Ireland Head … Read more
A new Covid variant spotted in Britain is not a threat because it does not appear to carry any vaccine-resistant mutations, an infectious diseases expert has said. Samples of the New York B.1.526 variant taken from infected US patients were found to contain the troublesome E484K mutation, which can partially evade the immune system. But … Read more
European leaders were divided last night over whether to press ahead with an extraordinary ban on vaccine exports to Britain. Brussels sources confirmed that the EU is ready to block a shipment of the AstraZeneca vaccine to the UK from a plant in the Netherlands. But the issue has triggered a major rift among leaders … Read more
European leaders were divided last night over whether to press ahead with an extraordinary ban on vaccine exports to Britain. Brussels sources confirmed that the EU is ready to block a shipment of the AstraZeneca vaccine to the UK from a plant in the Netherlands. But the issue has triggered a major rift among leaders … Read more
The scientist behind the first widely used coronavirus vaccine says the technology behind it will soon be used to fight cancer. Ozlem Tureci, who co-founded the German company BioNTech with her husband, was working on a way to harness the body’s immune system to tackle tumours when they learned last year of an unknown virus … Read more