The pace of France’s Covid-19 vaccination programme is too slow to prevent new lockdown measures being needed to halt a third wave of hospitalisations, top scientists say. Experts at the prestigious Institut Pasteur say the current pace of around 100,000 jabs a day is ‘insufficient’ to rein in the effects of the highly contagious UK … Read more
Europe’s vaccine chaos is set to continue into the spring with as many as 90million doses missing from AstraZeneca shipments in the second quarter of 2021. An EU official involved in talks with the firm says the company has warned that it may deliver only half of its promised 180million doses from April to June. … Read more
Gavin Williamson has claimed there are no coronavirus vaccine supply issues, despite Britain’s roll-out suffering its worst slump in a month. The Education Secretary insisted today there was ‘no problem’ with deliveries of doses and said ‘there will always be some days’ when uptake dips lower. Figures show just 150,000 Covid vaccines jabs were dished … Read more
AstraZeneca expects to get US emergency authorization for its COVID-19 vaccine in April, the firm’s president told lawmakers on Tuesday. As soon as it gets the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) greenlight, AstraZeneca will have 30 million doses of the 62 percent effective shot ready to ship to the US, said president of the biopharmaceuticals … Read more
Germany has been reduced to pleading with citizens to take AstraZeneca’s Covid vaccine after scaremongering about the jab led people to reject it. Steffen Seibert, Angela Merkel’s chief spokesman, said this week that the British-made jab is ‘both safe and highly effective’ and will ‘save lives’ as he urged people to take it, just weeks … Read more
Chancellor Angela Merkel has said that Germany is now in the third wave of the coronavirus pandemic, two sources told Reuters news agency. ‘We are now in the third wave,’ Merkel told lawmakers in her conservative party on Wednesday, according to two sources who attended the meeting. The chancellor is also said to have warned … Read more
Matt Hancock today warned that the Covid vaccine rollout will suffer a dip this week — but there will be a bump in March to compensate for the lag. The Health Secretary said a delay in the supply schedule will result in less jabs being dished out. But both AstraZeneca and Pfizer — manufacturers of … Read more
No10 has been urged to pick up the pace of its Covid vaccination drive because the number of doses dished out each day has dipped to below 400,000 for the first time since January. Department of Health statistics show 371,052 jabs were administered each day, on average, last week. For comparison, it almost reached 450,000 … Read more
Germany and France pay the price for their AstraZeneca scaremongering as citizens REFUSE the Oxford jab, causing more delays to their shambolic vaccination drives Thousands are deliberately skipping appointments for the Oxford jab in Europe Leaders had stoked fears it was ‘quasi-ineffective’, leading to a low uptake Germany and France have only vaccinated six per … Read more
Spacing Oxford University’s Covid vaccine doses 12 weeks apart actually boosts the jab’s effectiveness, according to a study which suggests the UK’s dosing gamble has paid off. When the second injection is given after three months the vaccine prevents 81 per cent of people from getting symptomatic illness. But when there is only between three … Read more