£29m boost for Covid battle in bid to speed up development of vaccines that protect against new virus variants Government concerned third virus wave could be triggered by new variant Matt Hancock is investing £29.3m in series of new laboratories in Wiltshire They develop vaccines that protect against virus variants much more quickly By Sophie … Read more
£29m boost for Covid battle in bid to speed up development of vaccines that protect against new virus variants Government concerned third virus wave could be triggered by new variant Matt Hancock is investing £29.3m in series of new laboratories in Wiltshire They develop vaccines that protect against virus variants much more quickly By Sophie … Read more
Indian Covid variants are on the rise in parts of England and now make up one in 10 cases in London, figures suggest. Data from the Sanger Institute, which analyses positive swabs for different variants, suggest the mutant strains spread widely during April. Nationally the three different variants — which are all genetically similar — … Read more
Pfizer’s Covid vaccine will protect against mutated Covid variants because it produces such a massive immune response, a study has claimed. Researchers at Imperial College London studied the impact of a single dose of the Pfizer jab against different types of virus and found it gives broad protection. Although responses were weak after a single … Read more
It has been nearly two weeks since Britain’s pubs, restaurants, hairdressers and shops reopened and, so far, things appear to be going according to plan. Covid-19 cases are continuing to fall and deaths are below 40 a day. Last week, Government data showed that only 32 fully vaccinated people have been admitted to hospital with Covid-19. … Read more
More than half of American adults have now had at least their first dose of coronavirus vaccine, and there are promising signs the shots are working: Plummeting average daily death numbers over the past week. The seven-day rolling average of fatalities has fallen by a quarter to 737 compared to seven days ago when 987 … Read more
Infections of South African and Kent coronavirus variants in those who have been vaccinated have already been recorded, NHS expert warns Cases of people getting South Africa and Kent variants after vaccine recorded Dr Susan Hopkins said vaccines acted as ‘primer’ for the immune system She said the cases were to be expected as vaccines … Read more
Infections of South African and Kent coronavirus variants in those who have been vaccinated have already been recorded, NHS expert warns Cases of people getting South Africa and Kent variants after vaccine recorded Dr Susan Hopkins said vaccines acted as ‘primer’ for the immune system She said the cases were to be expected as vaccines … Read more
Highly infectious coronavirus variants might be making up nearly three-quarters of all new cases in New York City, a new report finds. Released by the city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene on Monday, officials say just 10 percent of all samples submitted to global genome sequencing database GISAID in January were variants. By mid-March, … Read more
Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine is effective against the Californian variant spreading in the US, scientists say. And researchers also found the jab sparks Covid-fighting antibodies that stay in the blood for at least six months following a second dose. Evidence already shows the vaccine — deployed in Britain for the first time yesterday — works against the Kent … Read more