Boss of Indian vaccine firm making jabs for UK ‘agrees to rent £50k-a-week Mayfair mansion’ 

The CEO of an Indian drug company due to supply the UK with AstraZeneca vaccines is said to have agreed to pay £50,000 a week for a Mayfair home. Adar Poonawalla, the flashy billionaire head of the Serum Institute in India, will reportedly lease the 25,000 sq ft mansion from Polish billionaire Dominika Kulczyk. According to … Read more

Boss of Indian vaccine firm making jabs for UK ‘agrees to rent £50k-a-week Mayfair mansion’ 

The CEO of an Indian drug company due to supply the UK with AstraZeneca vaccines is said to have agreed to pay £50,000 a week for a Mayfair home. Adar Poonawalla, the flashy billionaire head of the Serum Institute in India, will reportedly lease the 25,000 sq ft mansion from Polish billionaire Dominika Kulczyk. According to … Read more

Hundreds of desperate Irish residents try to book jabs in NORTHERN Ireland

Hundreds of desperate Irish residents try to book jabs in NORTHERN Ireland where half the population has been vaccinated – compared to just 10% south of the border People from as far as Dublin and Galway have even been making the journey  Around half the adult population has now been inoculated in Northern Ireland  Head … Read more

‘New York’ Covid variant that is already in the UK may not render jabs useless, says expert

A new Covid variant spotted in Britain is not a threat because it does not appear to carry any vaccine-resistant mutations, an infectious diseases expert has said. Samples of the New York B.1.526 variant taken from infected US patients were found to contain the troublesome E484K mutation, which can partially evade the immune system. But … Read more

EU split over block on jabs bound for UK: Germany and France back ban on Covid vaccine exports

European leaders were divided last night over whether to press ahead with an extraordinary ban on vaccine exports to Britain. Brussels sources confirmed that the EU is ready to block a shipment of the AstraZeneca vaccine to the UK from a plant in the Netherlands. But the issue has triggered a major rift among leaders … Read more

EU pays price of jabs fiasco: Millions wake up to draconian new lockdowns

Almost three-quarters of EU countries are experiencing spiralling Covid infection rates, forcing vast swathes of the continent back into lockdown. As a third wave sweeps across Europe, Britons were yesterday warned that foreign summer holidays are ‘extremely unlikely’. In France alone, 21 million people awoke yesterday to a fresh draconian lockdown. Millions more in Italy, Germany, … Read more

Fully trained vaccine volunteers are turned away from giving jabs

Christine Livingston, who retired from the NHS in 2014, completed ten hours of online learning with St John Ambulance in February Volunteers with medical backgrounds who have completed hours of training to give Covid-19 vaccinations are being turned away from the job, it has emerged. St John Ambulance has trained 30,000 volunteers across three roles since … Read more

Britain in secret talks to get AstraZeneca jabs from India back on track

Secret talks have been launched with India over vaccine export restrictions that threaten to slow the UK rollout of jabs, the Mail can reveal. Health Secretary Matt Hancock told MPs that a ‘delay’ to a shipment of five million AstraZeneca jabs from India was a key factor in shortages that will slow the pace of the … Read more

Italy and France fold over AstraZeneca jabs

Italy and France fold over AstraZeneca jabs: Mario Draghi and Emmanuel Macron vow to ‘quickly resume’ using the vaccine once European Medicines Agency gives final clearance By Reuters Published: 17:55 GMT, 16 March 2021 | Updated: 18:18 GMT, 16 March 2021 Italy and France have committed to ‘quickly’ resume inoculations of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine once … Read more

MPs and the WHO plead with Britons to keep taking ‘safe’ AstraZeneca jabs

MPs from all parties were today pleading with Britons to keep taking AstraZeneca jabs amid fury that the EU’s ‘Brexit sulk’ will fuel anti-vax propaganda.   Politicians, medics and scientists have launched a concerted effort to reassure the public about the safety of the Oxford vaccine after a swathe of European countries suspended its use over unproven … Read more