Coronavirus vaccinations could be offered to all adults as soon as January 31 after healthcare workers and the most vulnerable start receiving the jabs early next month, according to leaked NHS reports. Providing everything goes to plan, those over 80 may be next in line to get a jab, with mid-December reportedly earmarked for starting … Read more
Matt Hancock suggested today the mass roll out of a coronavirus vaccination programme could be just weeks away Vulnerable Britons could start to be vaccinated against coronavirus within weeks, Matt Hancock suggested again today. The Health Secretary raised hopes last week when he said it could be possible to dish out Pfizer’s vaccine – which looks … 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
Nightingale hospitals are treating fewer than 30 patients and only one of the seven facilities across England is open – despite the recent rise in Covid hospital admissions Nightingale in Manchester caring for few dozen patients who now test negative Nightingales in Sunderland and Harrogate were asked to be ready for patients On Friday there … Read more
Most of Matt Hancock’s Nightingale hospitals may never fully open because there are not enough NHS workers to staff them, it has been claimed. An analysis by the Sunday Times also shows that each patient admitted to the massive hospitals has so far cost £1million to treat. Seven venues including London’s Excel Centre were converted into … Read more
England’s second wave of coronavirus is extending south of the worst-affected areas in the North of the country and infections are spreading out of young age groups to the at-risk older generations, official data shows. Professor Jonathan Van-Tam, England’s deputy chief medical officer, today hosted a television briefing laying bare the data that Prime Minister … Read more
Normality was – frustratingly – within reach. For months, infection rates fell and the pandemic seemed to be behind us. But just weeks after millions of children returned to classrooms, and offices around the country began to fill up again, we’re now slipping backwards. Corona cases are said to be doubling every week, hospital admissions … Read more
The UK needs to act fast to stop coronavirus cases growing out of control as a ‘trickle’ of cases can turn into a ‘cascade’, warns an academic who advises the Government. Peter Openshaw, professor of experimental medicine at Imperial College London, said that if people do not abide by the Government’s ‘rule of six’ then … Read more
The NHS Nightingale Hospitals’s coronavirus wards are set to reopen ‘within weeks’ as the infection rate rises across Britain. Doctors have reportedly been told unofficially that emergency measures will be needed from October 2. Nightingale Hospitals are being readied for a second wave as Covid cases continue to rise across the UK, the Mirror reported. The … Read more
The Army could be drafted in to deliver a ‘moonshot’ vaccination drive at empty NHS Nightingale hospital sites, it has emerged. Officials believe soldiers are needed to dish out the tens of millions of jabs to the public when a vaccine is ready. Troops could be deployed to the makeshift hospitals – which have been empty … Read more