Mass coronavirus testing being used in Liverpool will be rolled out across 66 local authorities, the Health Secretary claimed today. Matt Hancock revealed areas including Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire and the West Midlands will receive the rapid Covid-19 tests. London, Birmingham, Manchester and Coventry are also among the cities to get a batch of tests. At least 600,000 lateral … Read more
Mass Covid testing will be rolled out to university students so they can go home for Christmas, it was claimed today. Under the plans, due to be announced next week, large-scale asymptomatic testing centres are expected to be set up on campuses to screen all students. They will offer coronavirus swabs between November 30 and December 6. … Read more
A tenth of the country could be tested for coronavirus every week following the deployment of rapid saliva testing kits, it has emerged. Government officials have asked all local directors of public health to sign up to receive the testing kits – which provide results in 30 minutes – as NHS test and trace embarks … Read more
Covid vaccination jabs are expected to be on offer by the NHS from as early as next month, as five mass vaccination centres are planned to be in action by Christmas. Leaked provisional documents have revealed the plan for hundreds of NHS staff to be deployed in five sites across the country – injecting tens … Read more
The experimental coronavirus drug being given to Donald Trump is to be rolled out to 30 or 40 UK hospitals this week as it is deemed ‘very potent’ by UK scientists. Oxford University professor Peter Horby said UK patients began receiving REGN-COV2, made by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, last weekend as part of Oxford University’s national Recovery trial. … Read more
On-the-spot coronavirus tests that give results in 15 to 30 minutes set to be rolled out across the world The tests will look like a pregnancy test, with two blue lines displayed for positive One test has received emergency approval from the WHO, the other set to follow WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus hailed new … Read more
Melania Trump would roll her eyes whenever Ivanka opined about being America’s first female president, mumbling under her breath ‘no thank you’, a source connected to the bombshell book about the first lady exclusively told DailyMail.com. Melania’s former friend and staffer Stephanie Winston Wolkoff is set to release her explosive book – Melania and Me: The Rise … Read more
Two new game-changing tests will be offered to millions of Britons in a major advance in the war on coronavirus. Hailed as ‘transformative’, the tests – which give results in 90 minutes – will start being rolled out from next week. One is so simple it could soon be deployed in airports, offices, schools, pubs … Read more
A Covid-19 vaccine could be rolled out for vulnerable Brits before it gets approved by medical regulators, according to the UK’s vaccine tsar. Normally, it takes up to two years before a medication is given the green light by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the UK’s drugs watchdog. But experts believe a coronavirus jab … Read more
Coronavirus medal could be rolled out as early as September ‘under Boris Johnson’s plans to honour “unsung hero” frontline NHS and care workers’ Government is believed to be working on plans to create new coronavirus medal Medal likely to be awarded to ‘unsung heroes’ who have put their lives at risk Medal has widespread political … Read more