A GP on the frontlines of Britain’s great coronavirus vaccine push has revealed doctors have still not received doses that were supposed to arrive last month, amid fears Boris Johnson has over-promised with his pledge to jab 13million Brits and end lockdown by March. Dr Rosemary Leonard, an NHS family doctor who works in South … Read more
Boris vows ‘tens of millions’ of Covid vaccine doses will be given by March as he admits ministers must axe ‘absurd’ red tape stopping retired medics from joining effort Boris Johnson refused to give exact figures for vaccinating people from Covid PM said ‘tens of millions’ of doses should be given over the next three … Read more
Pfizer and AstraZeneca have rejected Government warnings of months-long vaccine supply gaps, claiming there will be enough doses to hit the country’s ambitious targets. England’s chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty this week warned that vaccine availability issues will ‘remain the case for several months’ as firms struggle to keep up with global demand. In a bid … Read more
Israel is set to run out of Pfizer/BioNTech doses amid fears that the slow pace of the vaccination programme and supply shortages will sabotage the global recovery. The health minister said the country, which has seen nine per cent of its population already given the jab in just 11 days, will pause the drive for … Read more
Britain will only have 530,000 doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine at its disposal from Monday, the Health Secretary Matt Hancock revealed today after the game-changing jab was approved by the UK medical regulator. The initial doses fall significantly short of the number touted by the Government in recent months. In May, officials suggested 30million doses of … Read more
The groundbreaking Oxford vaccine is expected to be approved for use within days – giving Britain a massive New Year boost in the fight against coronavirus. There is growing optimism within the Government that the Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency (MHRA) will give the green light to roll out the vaccine before the end of … Read more
Hundreds of Pfizer doses delivered to a GP surgery in Macclesfield have been thrown away due to a ‘refrigeration issue’ meaning the town’s most vulnerable face another three week wait for the jab. A batch of the coronavirus vaccine Pfizer-BioNTech, containing 975 doses, delivered to Waters Green Medical Centre was found to be unusable. The … Read more
Hundreds of Pfizer doses delivered to a GP surgery in Macclesfield have been thrown away due to a ‘refrigeration issue’ meaning the town’s most vulnerable face another three week wait for the jab. A batch of the coronavirus vaccine Pfizer-BioNTech, containing 975 doses, delivered to Waters Green Medical Centre was found to be unusable. The … Read more
Hundreds of doses of the Covid-19 vaccine are believed to have been ruined after a fridge failed at a GP clinic. Harborough Field Surgery in Rushden, Northamptonshire, was storing 975 precious doses of the Pfizer jab, which must be kept at minus 70 degrees. The clinic is acting as a central hub for surgeries in … Read more
Every vial of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine shipped to the UK contains at least two extra doses which may not be being used, raising fears the NHS is throwing away scarce supplies of the crucial jab. Britain’s medical regulator says every vial – the small glass container which holds the liquid vaccine – contains five … Read more