Boris Johnson to offer to share UK AstraZeneca Covid vaccine doses with EU as ‘peace offering’

Britain will offer to share millions of doses of AstraZeneca’s Covid vaccine made at a factory in the Netherlands in a desperate peace offering to the European Union, it was claimed today. Boris Johnson is trying to defuse a vaccine stand-off with EU chiefs, who are facing a third wave of coronavirus on the continent, … Read more

Britain smashes vaccine record with 874,000 doses in a day

Britain has smashed its vaccine record yet again with 874,000 jabs given in just one day – as the UK’s daily death toll fall by 36.5 per cent week-on-week. The first and second dose figure recorded yesterday – which is equivalent to around 27 jabs a second – marks the second day in a row of record-beating figures, … Read more

Britain’s Covid vaccine drives hits record daily high of 660,000 doses

Britain’s Covid vaccine drive hit a record high today after 660,000 doses were dished out in 24 hours, official figures revealed today. Some 26.2million Britons have now received their first dose, or half the adult population of 52million. And 2million have got their second dose as the drive continues at pace. Department of Health figures … Read more

Why is Britain getting doses of AstraZeneca’s Covid vaccine from India?

The vaccine roll-out was plunged into its first real crisis last night as the NHS revealed a major four-week fall in supply, meaning millions of people under 50 now face a much longer wait for their first vaccine appointment than many had hoped. The jabs shortage was triggered by delays to a shipment of 5million … Read more

Covid: Two doses of Pfizer or Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine give same protection as prior infection

Two doses of either Pfizer or AstraZeneca’s Covid vaccine offer the same protection against the illness as getting infected and recovering, research suggests. A study of 13,000 health workers in England revealed no-one who received both jabs suffered symptomatic illness in the fortnight after their booster dose.  That’s compared to the two per cent of Covid … Read more

EU BLOCKS shipment of 250k doses of AstraZeneca vaccine from Italy to Australia

The EU has blocked a shipment of AstraZeneca vaccines from leaving Italy for Australia using controversial export laws for the first time. Authorities in Italy refused to grant a licence for 250,000 doses manufactured in the country to be exported, meaning the shipment could not leave Thursday as planned. Officials in Rome had informed the … Read more

Covid vaccines: Oxford and Pfizer first doses just as effective in elderly with underlying illness

One dose of the Covid jabs being deployed in Britain are up to 80 per cent effective at stopping already-ill elderly people from being hospitalised with the disease, fresh research shows. Earlier this week, the first real-world analysis of the Oxford and Pfizer jabs in England found a single injection prevented eight in 10 over-80s from … Read more

US states will get 14.5 MILLION doses of COVID-19 vaccines next week

States can expect about 14.5 million doses of the coronavirus vaccine this week, an almost 70% increase in distribution over the past month, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Tuesday.  Pharmacies will also the shipments sent directly to them increase by about 100,000 doses this week, Psaki said.  The stepped-up efforts come as the … Read more

AstraZeneca expects FDA O.K for its COVID shot in April and will ship 30M doses

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

Pfizer, Moderna, plan to ship 135M doses of covid vaccine in 5 weeks

Pfizer and Moderna will deliver at least another 135 million doses of coronavirus vaccines over the next five weeks, the firms will lawmakers on Tuesday.  The two companies have considerably ramped up their production of vaccine doses and found solutions to previous manufacturing issues that caused bottlenecks in production.   To date, Pfizer has delivered about … Read more