The EU today announced it had bought another 300million doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine and approved a plan to scrape an extra dose out of each vial as the bloc tries to catch up to the faster rollouts in the US and Britain. With Israel still leading the global race – having given jabs to … Read more
Britain today approved Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine – but won’t be able to get any of the 17million doses it has bought until March at the earliest. Moderna’s Covid jab is the third to be given the green light by regulators in the UK, joining the vaccines made by Pfizer/BioNTech and Oxford University/AstraZeneca. Health Secretary Matt … Read more
The British Army officer leading Boris Johnson‘s effort to deliver hundreds of thousands of coronavirus vaccines per day pledged to use combat techniques to get them to the needy as fast as possible. Brigadier Phil Prosser, Commander of Military Support to the Vaccine Delivery Programme, said his team would use ‘our extensive operational and logistic … Read more
Boris Johnson today announced he is bringing in the Army to bolster the UK’s coronavirus vaccination drive and claimed the NHS will be able to give 200,000 jabs every day by next Friday as part of ambitious lockdown-ending plans. With the roll-out of vaccines the only light at the end of the tunnel, the Prime … Read more
Matt Hancock today insisted vaccines will mean this is the last national lockdown as he set out four criteria for lifting restrictions. The Health Secretary tried to strike an optimistic tone as he faced questions over the delay in bringing in the brutal curbs to control the mutant Covid strain as he gave evidence to MPs … Read more
Embarrassment for Health Secretary Matt Hancock as London GP surgery he visits to promote the launch of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine roll-out reveals it HASN’T GOT ANY Minister visited the Bloomsbury Surgery in central London this morning Said Oxford/ AstraZeneca vaccine being supplied to GPs across the country But surgery partner said its first delivery had … Read more
A one-shot Covid jab that has the potential to significantly boost Britain’s sluggish vaccination scheme may be approved in the UK by next month, it was claimed today. Scientists and Government sources believe the vaccine, made by the Belgian arm of pharmaceutical giant Johnson and Johnson, could be given emergency authorisation within weeks. The jab … Read more
Boris Johnson has admitted the roll-out of coronavirus vaccines into care homes ‘needs to be stepped up’ after it emerged just one in 10 residents has been jabbed. The Prime Minister — who has pinned all his hopes on being able to vaccinate 13million people by mid-February — also revealed just 14 per cent of care … Read more
Europe’s drug regulator today approved Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine and could get supplies within weeks because of a deal it struck in summer last year. But Britain will miss out on early access to the vaccine because it officially left the EU last week and did not place its own order early enough to get an … Read more
Sir Keir Starmer has urged the Government to use the third national lockdown in England to create a ’round-the-clock’ vaccination scheme in order to end ‘this nightmare’. In a televised response to Boris Johnson‘s statement, the Labour leader reiterated that his party supports the new measures being imposed and would back them in a Commons … Read more