Britain’s High Street pharmacies won’t start dishing out coronavirus vaccines until Thursday, it was revealed today amid mounting pressure on Boris Johnson to launch round-the-clock inoculations. Superdrug and Boots will only have one site ready to dish out vaccines when the roll-out is finally expanded later this week, with dozens more sites on standby to ramp … Read more
WHAT IS INCLUDED IN BRITAIN’S MASS VACCINATION PLAN? Mass vaccination centres: Some 50 centres will be set up at football stadiums and other huge venues to get the jab to as many Britons as possible; Teachers ‘second in line for jabs’: Key workers on Britain’s frontlines may be bumped up the priority queue meaning they … Read more
Matt Hancock rules out axing ‘important’ support bubbles helping families cope with the pandemic as new super-transmissible Covid strain raises fears of a harsher lockdown to come The Health Secretary had previously refused to rule out the drastic step But tonight he said they were too important to struggling families to remove ‘They are an … Read more
Schools are ignoring government guidelines and refusing to allow children into class unless BOTH parents are key workers, MailOnline has learned. Department for Education guidance states that only one parent needs to be a critical worker for their child to attend class – even if both parents are working from home. It adds parents who … Read more
An elderly woman told Matt Hancock he’s the ‘good looking one’ after getting the Covid jab at the ExCeL centre in east London. The Health Secretary was on a visit to the centre, the site of the Nightingale hospital which is now being used as a mass-vaccination area, when he started talking to people who … Read more
Key workers have been told to keep their children at home after it was revealed that up to 60 per cent of schools are full despite the national lockdown. One in 10 schools had between 40 and 60 per cent of students attending during the first week of the new lockdown, according to a poll … Read more
Boris Johnson today warned he is ready to tighten lockdown further as he voiced fears that vaccines have made people ‘complacent’ about obeying rules despite the NHS being on the brink of disaster. On a visit to the Ashton Gate vaccination centre in Bristol today, the PM revealed that 2.4million jabs have now been administered … Read more
Chris Whitty today warned the next few weeks are set to be the worst yet for the NHS as the government begs people not to ‘push the boundaries’ of the lockdown – and threatens to make it even tougher. The chief medical officer took to the airwaves to highlight the scale of the threat, saying … Read more
Key workers are to be tested for Covid-19 twice a week in bid to ‘break the chain’ of people passing on the virus without knowing they have it Key workers unable to work from home will be eligible for two Covid tests a week Lateral flow tests will become a key way to avoid current … Read more
Chaos over schools advice for parents: Matt Hancock is accused of mixed messaging after saying pupils should only be sent to classes as a last resort Confused messaging fuelling large numbers of children in school in lockdown A survey found attendance rates reached up to 60 per cent in some schools Department for Education guidance … Read more