direct to your inbox The first pictures have been released of freezers that will be packed with coronavirus vaccines in the UK, as each of the four nations prepares to start administering the jabs next week.
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coronavirus vaccine was 94.5 percent effective, based on early results from its large, continuing study in the United States.
Researchers said the results were better than they had imagined.Interim data from the US firm suggests its vaccine is highly effective in preventing people getting ill and also works across all age groups, including the elderly.The UK has not yet placed an order for the vaccine – which works in a similar way to Pfizer’s – but a Whitehall source told the PA news agency the
.direct to your inbox The first pictures have been released of freezers that will be packed with coronavirus vaccines in the UK, as each of the four nations prepares to start administering the jabs next week.
direct to your inbox Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said efforts are being made to ensure care home residents receive the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine as soon as possible as the UK roll out begins next week.
coronavirus vaccine has arrived in Scotland with the first jabs being given out on Tuesday. Scottish Health Secretary Jeane Freeman announced the major step in ridding the country of 'this terrible virus'.
direct to your inbox The roll out of the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine will have only a 'marginal impact' on hospital numbers over the winter, the UK's chief medical officers have warned ahead of next week's roll out.
President-elect Joe Biden said he’ll do “everything in my power” to convince Americans to take the coronavirus vaccines and to wear masks to prevent the spread of the pandemic and save lives. But as he answered questions from reporters on Friday, Biden said he wouldn’t make vaccines and masks mandatory.
Black Panther and Small Axe star Letitia Wright has deleted a tweet in which she linked to a 70-minute video posted to YouTube by a coronavirus vaccine skeptic.
coronavirus vaccine, which was approved by the UK's medicines regulator this week, will be rolled out from next Tuesday in NHS hospital hubs.
The United States is potentially days away from approving the first round of coronavirus vaccines just nine months after the global pandemic ripped through every state, claimed hundreds of thousands of lives and crippled the once robust economy. And yet, millions have vowed not to take the fast-developed two-shot vaccines despite 95% efficacy rates from pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and BioNTech and another from Moderna.
the companies confirmed a higher efficacy rate of 95 per cent.
“We have just got to get on with this as soon as possible.”Health Secretary Matt Hancock called the data from AstraZeneca and Oxford University “really encouraging news”, but stressed that vaccines need to be approved by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).“This is really encouraging news on the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine, that obviously we’ve been backing since the start,” he told Sky News.“And I’m really very pleased, really welcome these figures, this data, that