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
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
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
Almost three-quarters of EU countries are experiencing spiralling Covid infection rates, forcing vast swathes of the continent back into lockdown. As a third wave sweeps across Europe, Britons were yesterday warned that foreign summer holidays are ‘extremely unlikely’. In France alone, 21 million people awoke yesterday to a fresh draconian lockdown. Millions more in Italy, Germany, … Read more
Christine Livingston, who retired from the NHS in 2014, completed ten hours of online learning with St John Ambulance in February Volunteers with medical backgrounds who have completed hours of training to give Covid-19 vaccinations are being turned away from the job, it has emerged. St John Ambulance has trained 30,000 volunteers across three roles since … Read more
Secret talks have been launched with India over vaccine export restrictions that threaten to slow the UK rollout of jabs, the Mail can reveal. Health Secretary Matt Hancock told MPs that a ‘delay’ to a shipment of five million AstraZeneca jabs from India was a key factor in shortages that will slow the pace of the … Read more
Italy and France fold over AstraZeneca jabs: Mario Draghi and Emmanuel Macron vow to ‘quickly resume’ using the vaccine once European Medicines Agency gives final clearance By Reuters Published: 17:55 GMT, 16 March 2021 | Updated: 18:06 GMT, 16 March 2021 Italy and France have committed to ‘quickly’ resume inoculations of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine once … Read more
MPs from all parties were today pleading with Britons to keep taking AstraZeneca jabs amid fury that the EU’s ‘Brexit sulk’ will fuel anti-vax propaganda. Politicians, medics and scientists have launched a concerted effort to reassure the public about the safety of the Oxford vaccine after a swathe of European countries suspended its use over unproven … Read more
Labour leader Keir Starmer, 58, gets his first vaccine dose as it’s revealed Boris Johnson, 56, is expected to get it THIS WEEK PM is 56, meaning he can book an appointment rather than wait for invitation Government sources say Mr Johnson will have his jab this week Downing Street spent past week being coy about … Read more