The UK’s vaccination programme will take a major step forward tomorrow as the first ‘super-vax’ centres, capable of inoculating up to 3,000 people a day, open their doors. Already 1.5million people have been vaccinated, mostly with the Pfizer jab. Now the mass rollout of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine heralds a blitz of inoculations. With more than … Read more
Boris Johnson has revealed seven mass coronavirus vaccination centres will throw open their doors next week to turbocharge efforts to pull the country out of a relentless cycle of lockdowns. The hubs will be based in venues including sports centres and London’s Excel convention centre, now a Nightingale hospital, and equipped to administer thousands of doses … Read more
Hundreds of pop-up GP-led centres are on the way as part of a huge vaccination drive, ministers revealed last night. With approval for the Oxford vaccine set to come as early as today, Government sources told the Mail that town halls and village community centres are poised to help roll out the jab to millions … Read more
Vaccination teams are braced to go into care homes to give the most vulnerable the Covid jab by the end of the week. GPs are also due to start administering the Pfizer vaccine from today at 280 local centres across the UK. It means those at greatest risk will finally get the protection they need … 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
Dozens of mass coronavirus vaccination sites will be set up across the country within weeks, while firefighters will be trained up to help deliver the inoculations, as part of plans by ministers to deliver millions of jabs in record time. GP surgeries have been told to organise the initial wave, which will involve using community … Read more
STOCKS TO WATCH: Vaccine centres may prove a booster for Balfour Beatty By Alex Lawson, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:50 GMT, 14 November 2020 | Updated: 23:27 GMT, 14 November 2020 The Government’s eagerness to lean heavily on the private sector throughout the pandemic shows no sign of abating. Westminster has already dished out … Read more
City centres have been left deserted across England on the first weekend of national lockdown, but beauty spots have stayed busy as people make the most of the autumnal weather today. Photographs show boarded-up restaurants adorned with ‘stay alert’ signs lining empty streets in London’s Soho and Newcastle’s Bigg Market after England entered its second … Read more
Gyms ARE Covid-safe: Experts say they pose a low risk of spreading the virus and keeping them open boosts health and wellbeing 487 positive cases were recorded following 62million visits to fitness centres The study collected data from leisure centres in 14 European countries Academics argued their results revealed that gyms should be kept open … Read more
Merry Clickmas! More festive shopping to be done online than on high streets for the first time this year in further blow to ‘ghost town’ centres More than half of gifts are expected to be bought online, up from 31% last year Delivery industry experts fear courier and postal system will struggle to cope Even … Read more