New Covid-19 community vaccination hub opens in Middleton

direct to your inbox When staff at the Everest Pharmacy in Whalley Range were asked to work extra hours to help with the Covid-19 vaccination programme, they didn't question it.

“There are moments is history when more is asked of a particular generation — more than is asked of Americans in another time. We are in that moment now,” said newly inaugurated President Joe Biden on Thursday. “History’s going to measure whether we were up to the task. I believe we are.”

direct to your inboxA new coronavirus vaccination hub has opened in Littleborough.Based at the leisure centre in Calderbrook Road, it is the fourth community site now operating in Rochdale.More than 8.500 older people in the borough have had their first dose, with all care home residents and staff are expected to have received the jab by the end of January.The arrival of a new site in the Pennines is a further boost to the borough's vaccination programme, as well as providing extra convenience

Two days after the Los Angeles Public Health Department announced that the much-talked-about U.K. variant of Covid-19, known as B.1.1.7, had been identified in the region, the California Department of Public Health revealed that another lesser-known strain had been circulating in the county as well.

Police were called to break up a protest outside a Scots home - just hours after tougher measures came in to force to stop the spread of Covid-19. Yesterday, entering businesses to purchase takeaway food and drinks was scrapped, as was non-essential click-and-collect services and drinking alcohol in public outdoors.

straight to your inbox every day for freePaul Pogba has urged footballers to find different ways to celebrate amid a Premier League clampdown on social distancing.The league's decision-makers are keen for players to avoid hugging when celebrating goals, in an attempt to minimise the spread of Covid-19.Manchester United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has said he "understands" the new protocols and Pogba admitted players can find other ways to celebrate goals.

straight to your inboxManchester City have offered access to the Etihad Stadium for the NHS to train staff operating the new Covid-19 mass vaccine centre nextdoor.The site, at the Manchester Tennis and Football Centre at the Etihad Campus, has opened today to assist in the roll-out of coronavirus vaccines, and is initially open to people over 80 and healthcare staff by appointment only.

Covid-19 vaccine has been hit by an outbreak of the virus.Experts have warned it showed that the shot was not enough to bring the pandemic to an end on its own.Groups representing families said they knew of other homes where residents had been treated but later developed symptoms.Abercorn Care Home in Hamilton received the Pfizer vaccine on December 14.That vaccine, the first in the UK to be given a safety licence, is most effective after two doses, the pharma firm says.Annie Innes, 90, who

Amid the national tumult on Wednesday, a newly-issued California Travel Advisory got little attention.

direct to your inboxMore than 9,000 people have already been vaccinated in Tameside but bosses warn the borough is facing an ‘exponential rise’ in new Covid-19 cases.Greater Manchester is currently locked down for the third time as part of tough nationwide measures to tackle the coronavirus pandemic.A new more transmissible strain of the virus is now circulating in the region, which is also seeing infection rates and hospital admissions increase again.Leaders say that locally infections have

On Monday, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced the creation of a statewide “Oxygen Strategy” to confront a new, critical problem: lack of oxygen for those afflicted with Covid-19. He said a “task force on oxygen” was stood up a week ago.

coronavirus by rolling out the vaccine from Pittodrie. understands a delegation from NHS Grampian has visited the stadium to assess its suitably as a makeshift hub to help get the jab into the arms of thousands of people across the north east.

the new The HBO Max series confirmed the newest class of New York City's rich, privileged and elite on New Year's Day in a slew of Instagram posts shared on its official page, alongside their full character names and mysterious one-word clues.It's the first time the series, which is expected to bow sometime in 2021, has officially revealed the newest Upper East Siders for Gossip Girl to gawk over.Emily Alyn Lind plays Audrey Hope, whose descriptor is «grace.» In a previous character description,

As of late Saturday, the nation has surpassed 350,000 deaths from coronavirus. At least 350,214 deaths have been reported since the start of the pandemic, Johns Hopkins University said.

A 23-year-old Florida man is now out of isolation after being the first person in the state to test positive for a new and more contagious strain of COVID-19, health officials said Saturday.  The presence of the new strain in Martin County, on Florida's Treasure Coast, was first discovered Thursday through the CDC's random sampling of COVID-19 tests.  The CDC is now working with the Florida Department of Health to examine more cases in the area and ascertain how much the new strain has spread. 

Ashanti is starting the new year with some good news: she’s tested negative for COVID-19, three weeks after revealing she’d tested positive.