Coronavirus vaccine will be rolled out in Australia in MARCH – four months after it’s available overseas – and there’ll be no fines for refusing the jab Australia is on track to roll out the first doses of a coronavirus vaccine in March The government will not withhold benefits from people who decline optional jab But Qantas … Read more
The FTSE 100 hit its highest level since June after the UK became the first country to approve Pfizer and Biontech’s Covid vaccine. The jab will be rolled out from next week to pave the way for mass vaccination and could herald a return to ‘normal’ life by next summer. Elderly people in care homes … Read more
Moderna Inc will begin testing its COVID-19 vaccine in children, who are capable of passing on the virus, to high-risk group in its large, late-stage trial. According to clinicaltrials.gov, a registry of clinical trials run by the US National Library of Medicine, the study will enroll 3,000 participants between ages 12 and 17. Half of … Read more
One fifth of Britons are still unsure the Pfizer vaccine is safe while two thirds said Health Secretary Matt Hancock should be given the jab live on air, according to a new survey by YouGov. Researchers asked more than 5,000 adults in Britain how confident they were that the new Pfizer vaccine is safe. In … Read more
FDA Commissioner Steve Hahn has defended taking so long to approve Pfizer’s COVID vaccine when it has been given the greenlight in the UK, saying on Wednesday that his scientists need longer to review the data because they analyze it more ‘robustly’ than anyone else. On Wednesday, British health authorities said they had approved the … Read more
Boris Johnson and the deputy chief medical officer Jonathan Van Tam this evening revealed their intense emotions after being told a coronavirus vaccine developed by Pfizer can now start to be rolled out across the UK. Mr Johnson described it as a ‘huge moment’ and also ‘a very moving thing’ while Mr Van Tam admitted … Read more
The boss of frozen food giant Iceland says the supermarket ‘stands ready to support’ in rolling out Pfizer/BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine after the jab today sealed approval from the UK’s medical regulator. Amid scenes of joy at the historic breakthrough this morning, there have been concerns over how best to transport and store the vaccine because … Read more
Teachers, bus drivers and police officers could be prioritised for a coronavirus vaccine once the highest risk groups have been jabbed, according to official guidance. The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) published its vaccine priority list today, with care homes and the NHS the first in line. Elderly people and patients underlying health … Read more
Volunteers who were the first in the world to be given Pfizer’s Covid vaccine — which Britain today approved for mass roll-out — have compared the jab’s side effects to a ‘severe hangover’. One 45-year-old volunteer said the first dose left her suffering side effects similar to the flu jab but that her symptoms were … Read more
Nicola Sturgeon has joined Matt Hancock in offering to take the coronavirus vaccine live on air if it will help encourage others to get the jab. The Health Secretary took Piers Morgan up on his proposal they take the jab in front of the cameras, adding that it ‘would be worth it’ if it pursuaded … Read more