The entire population of the UK could be vaccinated against new Covid variants within four months when a new £158million state-of-the-art vaccine production hub opens in Oxfordshire later this year, say experts The Vaccines Manufacturing Innovation Centre (VMIC) will launch this year It will add significant firepower to Britain’s immunisation infrastructure Dr Matthew Duchars said … Read more
British officials must try harder to get Covid vaccines to ethnic minority people because more than half of black people could turn them down, SAGE has warned. In a paper published today by the Government Office for Science, scientists told ministers that vaccine uptake in the past has been lower in non-white communities. And they … Read more
Parents whose 25-year-old daughter died from Covid-19 after her family contracted it days before they were due to be vaccinated have issued a dire warning over the ‘very real threat’ of the virus. Lauren Jones, from Llwynypia in the Rhondda, had none of the underlying health conditions known to make someone more susceptible to coronavirus, … Read more
Martha Stewart says she ‘waited in line with others’ as she gets vaccinated near NYC medical facility named after her By Dailymail.com Reporter Published: 03:08 GMT, 12 January 2021 | Updated: 03:18 GMT, 12 January 2021 Martha Stewart says she ‘waited in line with others’ as she received the coronavirus vaccine in New York on … Read more
WHAT IS INCLUDED IN BRITAIN’S MASS VACCINATION PLAN? Mass vaccination centres: Some 50 centres will be set up at football stadiums and other huge venues to get the jab to as many Britons as possible; Teachers ‘second in line for jabs’: Key workers on Britain’s frontlines may be bumped up the priority queue meaning they … Read more
Israel has vaccinated more than 20 percent of its population against COVID-19, leaving the rest of the world – including the US and the UK – in its dust. The small nation has deployed its military to help run mass vaccination sites 24 hours a day, seven days a week. As a result, it has … Read more
The new lockdown in England at a glance England will be put into a full national lockdown that will last until the February half term. According to the new rules: All primary and secondary schools will close with immediate effect Classes will remain only for vulnerable pupils and the children of key workers. The plan … Read more
Palau, the Pacific Island paradise which is home to 18,000 people, and could become the first country to be vaccinated against Covid-19 Republic of Palau could be among first countries to vaccinate entire population The island nation has not recorded a single case of the virus, according to WHO On Saturday, the country received its … Read more
Health chiefs in Israel say TWO MILLION people in country will have received Covid jab by end of January with up to one million already given first dose of vaccine Two million people will have received Covid jab by end of January in Israel ‘We are breaking all the records,’ Netanyahu said on Friday Israel … Read more
When panic surrounded the polio vaccine in the 1950s, the Queen helped turn public opinion by confirming Prince Charles and Princess Anne would get the jab. Now, however, the Palace refuses to say if Her Majesty or Prince Philip have been given the Covid vaccine, insisting that it’s a ‘private’ matter. But some of the Queen’s … Read more