Health chiefs gear up for autumn Covid vaccine booster drive

Covid booster vaccines are to be trialled in the UK as health chiefs gear up to offer all over-50s a third dose by the autumn. Southampton University scientists aim to recruit thousands of double-vaccinated Britons to the study, who will receive one of seven Covid jabs as a top-up. They will record any side-effects, and … Read more

The EU is set to approve Covid vaccine passports for holidaymakers

The EU’s travel plan Anyone who has received their final dose of an EU-approved vaccine within the last two weeks can travel. This includes all of the vaccines used in the UK and the US. Children who have not yet had a vaccine van enter with their parents if they provide a negative test. EU … Read more

The EU is set to approve Covid vaccine passports for holidaymakers

British holidaymakers could soon be jetting to sunny European beaches as Brussels is set to approve vaccine passports later on Wednesday. EU ambassadors are expected to green light a plan which allows fully-vaccinated Britons to enter without requiring a Covid-19 test or quarantine, providing they had their second dose within the last two weeks. Currently, … Read more

Glaxosmithkline chief Emma Walmsley celebrates second successful vaccine trial

Glaxosmithkline chief Emma Walmsley celebrates second successful vaccine trial By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 22:01 BST, 18 May 2021 | Updated: 22:44 BST, 18 May 2021 Glaxo boss Emma Walmsley is bracing for a raid by Wall Street activist Elliott Managemen Underfire Glaxosmithkline boss Emma Walmsley has been given a second shot in … Read more

MARKET REPORT: Oxford Biomedica given a £100m vaccine booster

MARKET REPORT: Oxford Biomedica given a £100m vaccine booster after helping churn out the Astrazeneca jab By Mark Shapland For The Daily Mail Published: 22:00 BST, 18 May 2021 | Updated: 22:46 BST, 18 May 2021 The pandemic has thrust little-known companies into the spotlight and none more so than Oxford Biomedica. Pre-Covid the Oxford … Read more

Anne Hathaway proudly displays a COVID-19 vaccine sticker and mask while running errands in New York

Anne Hathaway proudly displays a COVID-19 vaccine sticker and mask while running errands in New York By Tracy Wright For Dailymail.com Published: 20:15 BST, 18 May 2021 | Updated: 20:15 BST, 18 May 2021 She’s set to play the wife of a disgraced start-up CEO in the new AppleTV+ limited series, WeCrashed. But Anne Hathaway … Read more

Offering Covid vaccine to children in wealthy nations ahead of high-risk groups ‘morally wrong’

Offering the Covid vaccine to children in wealthy countries when high-risk groups in poorer nations remain unvaccinated is ‘morally wrong’, the director of the Oxford Vaccine Group has said.  Professor Andrew Pollard said it felt ‘completely wrong’ that vaccines were being rolled out to children who had a ‘near-to-zero’ risk of severe disease or death from … Read more

More than 96% of Britons develop Covid antibodies after one dose of vaccine

More than 96 per cent of Britons develop Covid antibodies after one Pfizer or AstraZeneca vaccine, real world data suggests. A study of 8,517 people in England and Wales found 96.42 per cent of adults developed the virus-fighting proteins 28 to 34 days after their first dose. It rose to more than 99 per cent … Read more

Brisbane trainee nurse hospitalised with three blood clots after getting AstraZeneca Covid vaccine

A young nursing student has been hospitalised with three blood clots on her right lung just three weeks after receiving the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine.   Ellie Peacock, who works on a casual team that is exposed to potential Covid-positive patients, was given her first dose of the vaccine on March 31, a week before the government … Read more

Brisbane trainee nurse hospitalised with three blood clots after getting AstraZeneca Covid vaccine

A young nursing student has been hospitalised with three blood clots on her right lung just three weeks after receiving the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine.   Ellie Peacock, who works on a casual team that is exposed to potential Covid-positive patients, was given her first dose of the vaccine on March 31, a week before the government … Read more