Furious Tories today warned that the EU will ‘poison’ relations for ‘a generation’ if it follows through on extraordinary threats to block Pfizer vaccines going to the UK – as ministers insisted they are ‘confident’ supplies will be maintained. Amid a shambolic rollout across the bloc, Brussels has demanded drug firms give them early warning … Read more
NHS ‘threatens legal action’ against vaccine centre staff offering ‘leftover’ jabs to friends and family to stop them being wasted at the end of the day NHS vaccination centres offering leftover jabs to relatives and friends of staff Senior sources in NHS calling for legal action to be taken against the centres Today it … Read more
Israel began administering Covid-19 vaccines to teenagers Saturday as it pushed ahead with its inoculation drive, with 39 percent of the population now having received the first dose, health officials said. Since the rollout of vaccinations one month ago, more than 2.5 million of Israel’s nine-million-strong population have been vaccinated already, the health ministry said … Read more
A record 400,000 Britons got their coronavirus vaccinations on Thursday as the NHS drive continues to gather steam. The early figures – published ahead of the official update from the Department of Health later today – suggest thousands of jabs are being administered every hour, and mark the third day in a row the scheme … Read more
Covid vaccine minister Nadhim Zahawi denies jabs have been diverted from the North to areas lagging behind in over-80s rollout – after NHS figures reveal huge postcode lottery Nadhim Zahawi blasted claims stocks were being diverted from Yorkshire He said they would still be receiving their 13 per cent allocation of supplies But he admitted … Read more
Britain’s vaccine roll out has hit the rate of 200 jabs a minute, putting the Government on track to hit its target of inoculating 13.9million people by mid-February as a record 366,919 coronavirus vaccine doses were dishout out yesterday. The UK’s huge vaccination drive, which has rallied after a slowdown over the weekend, has now … Read more
Britons may need to be vaccinated against Covid every year to keep the disease at bay, Sir Patrick Vallance warned today. No10’s chief scientific adviser delivered the warning today, saying a regular flu-style rollout may be required to ‘keep on top’ of the virus for the next few years. Scientists say that mutations on the spike … Read more
Police swoop on pensioners waiting to receive the Covid jab at vaccination centre ‘after they received false tip-off that venue was holding an illegal rave’ Police swooped on ‘rave’ at Essex’s Freemasons’ Saxon Hall in Southend-on-Sea The crowds were reported to them by concerned neighbours raising the alarm But police instead found pensioners queueing for … Read more
Elderly Britons may be missing appointments for their coronavirus vaccines because GPs are sending them invites by text, doctors fear. Some over-80s who are next in line for the jab are being contacted on their mobile phones because of the ‘short notice of supply’. Dr Ollie Hart, a GP involved in the rollout in Sheffield, said … Read more
Only a little over 14 million Americans have been vaccinated against COVID-19 as of Monday morning, data reveal. Already, vaccination centers are over-booked with Americans desperate to get vaccinated. Many are on the verge of running out of doses to give; some are already out. New York and Michigan have each asked the federal government’s … Read more