Number of shielders leaving home risen with roll-out of vaccines and declining infection rates

Number of Covid shielders leaving home rose in February with 81% venturing outdoors at least once a week as infection rates fell and vaccine rollout steamed ahead, ONS finds Office for National Statistics found 81 per cent left home once at end of February This was up from the 76 per cent who stepped out … Read more

600,000 extra shielders offered first Covid jab after being added to extremely vulnerable list

Hundreds of thousands of people asked to shield in England are being invited for a Covid-19 vaccine jab. About 1.7million more people were added to the shielding list last week after experts identified additional adults at serious risk of the virus. Some 600,000 of that group are now being invited to book a slot at … Read more

NHS volunteers who signed up to help shielders in April will be trained to DELIVER Covid-19 vaccine

NHS army of volunteers who signed up to help shielders in April will be trained to deliver Covid-19 vaccines as soon as one is approved More than 750,000 answered the health services call for aid in the pandemic And today it was revealed they would be enlisted to administer a Covid-19 jab The vaccine could … Read more