Mass coronavirus testing is being rolled out in secondary schools in coronavirus hotspots in North East London, South Essex and Kent from today. The launch comes after official data showed pupils aged 11 to 18 were fuelling the winter surge of infections in the capital and South East England. The Department of Health said ‘hundreds … Read more
Mass coronavirus testing is being rolled out in secondary schools in coronavirus hotspots in North East London, South Essex and Kent from today. The launch comes after official data showed pupils aged 11 to 18 were fuelling the winter surge of infections in the capital and South East England. The Department of Health said ‘hundreds … Read more
Britain today began mass vaccination of the public with Pfizer/BioNTech’s Covid vaccine, bringing the ‘end in sight’ to pandemic lockdown rules. Here, MailOnline answers all the questions about the jab, including who will get it first, how much it costs and where people will be vaccinated. What could the logistical challenges of delivering it be? … Read more
Britain today began mass vaccination of the public with Pfizer/BioNTech’s Covid vaccine, bringing the ‘end in sight’ to pandemic lockdown rules. Here, MailOnline answers all the questions about the jab, including who will get it first, how much it costs and where people will be vaccinated. What could the logistical challenges of delivering it be? … Read more
Care home residents are expected to begin receiving Covid jabs within days after all. Officials have devised a way to split the Pfizer vaccine into small batches suitable for distribution to them. Initial plans to make vulnerable social care residents the first to get the jab were derailed when regulators put a limit on the … Read more
Mass Covid testing will be rolled out to university students so they can go home for Christmas, it was claimed today. Under the plans, large-scale asymptomatic testing centres are expected to be set up on campuses to screen all students. No10 is expected to confirm the plans tomorrow, which will reportedly see Covid-19 swabs offered … Read more
Mass coronavirus testing being used in Liverpool will be rolled out across 66 local authorities, the Health Secretary claimed today. Matt Hancock revealed areas including Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire and the West Midlands will receive the rapid Covid-19 tests. London, Birmingham, Manchester and Coventry are also among the cities to get a batch of tests. At least 600,000 lateral … Read more
Mass coronavirus testing being used in Liverpool will be rolled out across 66 local authorities, the Health Secretary claimed today. Matt Hancock revealed areas including Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire and the West Midlands will receive the rapid Covid-19 tests. London, Birmingham, Manchester and Coventry are also among the cities to get a batch of tests. At least 600,000 lateral … Read more
Mass Covid testing will be rolled out to university students so they can go home for Christmas, it was claimed today. Under the plans, due to be announced next week, large-scale asymptomatic testing centres are expected to be set up on campuses to screen all students. They will offer coronavirus swabs between November 30 and December 6. … Read more
A tenth of the country could be tested for coronavirus every week following the deployment of rapid saliva testing kits, it has emerged. Government officials have asked all local directors of public health to sign up to receive the testing kits – which provide results in 30 minutes – as NHS test and trace embarks … Read more