Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine approved for use in United Kingdom

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.

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.

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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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.

direct to your inboxRochdale Infirmary patients became the first in Greater Manchester to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine this week.It was given to people aged over 80 attending scheduled outpatient appointments at the hospital, after its pharmacy team took delivery of the vaccine on Monday.The vaccine was approved for use in the UK by the medical regulator at the end of December.

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.

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Isle Of Wight Festival boss John Giddings has told NME about his plan for live crew workers and music venues to come together for a mass roll-out of the COVID-19 vaccine.Giddings, who also works as a promoter and music agent, made his suggestion on Twitter last night (January 5), urging the UK Government to make the most of the skills of the thousands of event and live crew unable to work at present, as well as the countless music venues unable to open their doors due to coronavirus

direct to your inboxThis is the moment a patient became the first in the world to receive the Covid-19 vaccine that was invented in the UK.Dialysis patient Brian Pinker received his jab at 7.30am on Monday from nurse Sam Foster at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s Churchill Hospital.Mr Pinker, 82, has been receiving dialysis for kidney disease for a number of years at the hospital.The retired maintenance manager said the jab will give him peace of mind as he continues to receive

direct to your inboxBatches of the newly approved coronavirus vaccine from Oxford University and AstraZeneca have started arriving at hospitals ahead of the jab’s rollout.Some 530,000 doses of the vaccine will be available for rollout across the UK from Monday, with vulnerable groups already identified as the priority for immunisation.The NHS will be the first health service in the world to deliver the jab, which was approved last week, in the next stage of the phased vaccine programme.The first

600,000 people have already been given the first Covid-19 vaccine in the UK between December 8 and December 20 according to the UK government. And tens of thousands of coronavirus vaccines will be delivered across Wales next week, one of Wales' medical advisers has said.