direct to your inbox Boris Johnson and Professor Chris Whitty have addressed whether people who have had both doses of the coronavirus vaccine can 'exclusively socialise' without social-distancing.
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Dominic Raab said today the UK Government was working towards a target of the entire county receiving their first jab by early autumn. It comes as the Scottish Government steps up its recruitment of vaccinators to administer doses across the country, with more than 5,000 registered so far - a figure which does not include all participating GPs.
direct to your inbox Boris Johnson and Professor Chris Whitty have addressed whether people who have had both doses of the coronavirus vaccine can 'exclusively socialise' without social-distancing.
coronavirus vaccine roll-out has failed to hit the promised million jags – by more than 400,000.Health Secretary Jeane Freeman said in November that one million Scots would be vaccinated by the end of January, but the latest figures show just 575,897 have had their jag – despite almost one million doses being available.If Scotland had even kept pace with England, an extra 182,000 people would have already been vaccinated.First Minister Nicola Sturgeon admitted there were problems with the jag
coronavirus vaccine in recent weeks. Scientist Steven Wooding developed the Vaccine Queue Calculator in a bid to find out roughly how far he has progressed in the line for the jab.
Grandparents will not be able to safely see their grandchildren until tens of millions of people are vaccinated, the UK Government has warned. England's deputy chief medical officer Professor Jonathan Van-Tam said "all of the rules still apply" even if grandparents have had their first vaccine dose.He also told people not to assume they will have any protection until at least 21 days have elapsed after their first dose.
Covid-19 vaccine. Valneva has started commercial manufacturing of its Coronavirus jab in Livingston, West Lothian, which is expected to deliver up to 60 million doses by the end of the year if approved for use.
direct to your inboxThe European Union has threatened to impose tight controls on the export of coronavirus vaccines - potentially impacting the UK’s supply of Pfizer jabs.The Government said it was in 'close contact' with suppliers after the European Commission issued the warning amid a row with pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca.Last week, AstraZeneca, which worked with Oxford University on the vaccine’s development, told the EU it was falling behind on its supply target for member states
David Walliams has shared his delight after his 77-year-old mother, Kathleen, received her first coronavirus vaccine.The Britain's Got Talent judge, 49, took to Twitter on Tuesday to thank the "brilliant" NHS for giving some "joy and hope". He tweeted: "My mum is 77 and was given the vaccine yesterday.
carried out by the armed forces. UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace confirmed the deployment of 98 soldiers over the next 28 days to identify and prepare suitable locations for NHS Scotland to administer the Covid-19 vaccine.
Prince William is hoping his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, being vaccinated for the coronavirus will help quell uncertainty about the shot among the British people. A Buckingham Palace spokesperson confirmed earlier this month that the Queen, 94, and her husband, Prince Philip, 99, were given a vaccine in an effort to not only inoculate the duo from contracting COVID-19, but "to prevent inaccuracies and further speculation" as well.
coronavirus vaccine by September, Dominic Raab has pledged. The Foreign Secretary said the Government was working to the early autumn target to complete the roll out - with 3.5 million already receiving their first jab.
The Coronavirus vaccine is slowly being rolled out across the globe in an effort to vaccinate as many people as possible as the pandemic continues.
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coronavirus Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine will be made available in more that 1,000 locations across Scotland from Monday, the Scottish Government have announced.The injection, which was approved by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) on December 30, has already been administered in the Tayside, Lothian, Orkney and Highlands health boards.The news of the rollout comes after Nicola Sturgeon confirmed over 110,000 people have received the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine since it
Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh have been given their Covid-19 jabs, Buckingham Palace have announced. The Royal couple join more than a million people across the UK to have received the vaccination so far as the country remains in coronavirus lockdown.
coronavirus vaccine to be approved in the UK after the Pfizer/BioNTech jab was approved in December, followed by the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccination. The Moderna vaccine is 94 per cent effective in preventing disease, including in the elderly, and the government was one of the first to sign an agreement with the company to supply the vaccine on behalf of the UK, Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories.