UK's coronavirus vaccination roll-out 'won't be affected by France's ban on freight' says Transport Secretary

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.

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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

For all the latest news from in and around Bolton, sign up for the free MyBolton newsletterThe first of Bolton's care home residents have now received their first doses of the coronavirus vaccine.Around 75 residents and staff at the Old Vicarage care home on Ivy Bank Road got their jabs on Wednesday, December 30.It is part of a gradual roll-out of vaccines which will continue into 2021, with other care residents across the borough set to receive their jab.Dr Stephen Liversedge, clinical director

direct to your inboxThe first care home residents in Stockport have been vaccinated against coronavirus.Elderly people at Brinnington Hall were given their first dose of the Pfizer/BionNtech vaccine yesterday (Wednesday).The home, in Middlesex Road, specialises in care for the over-65s and those living with dementia.Residents had been eagerly awaiting news of when they would get the jab and were thrilled to find out they were the first in line in Stockport.Margaret Harley, who has lived at

David Guetta has urged everyone to take the coronavirus vaccine, which he hopes will lead to a “big, mad party” in 2021.Speaking to Reuters shortly before pre-recording a charity New Year’s Eve concert outside the Louvre Museum in Paris, the French DJ and producer said he hopes everybody gets vaccinated.“I’m going to do the vaccine, and I hope people are going to do it too because I don’t see any other way to go out of this situation,” Guetta said.France is one of the countries hardest-hit by

direct to your inboxThe Oxford coronavirus vaccine will go to care home residents and staff first, the Health Secretary has said.Writing exclusively for the Mirror, Matt Hancock said 2020 'can be a year of renewal'.

Dr. Anthony Fauci is feeling fine.

direct to your inbox Royal Mail has announced it has suspended deliveries to mainland Europe amid transport restrictions due to the mutant coronavirus strain.

Nicola Sturgeon tonight called on Boris Johnson to extend the Brexit transition period. The First Minister took to Twitter with no breakthrough in negotiations between the UK and the EU in sight.

“It’s a very special day, I feel euphoric,” Sir Ian McKellen said after receiving the first of two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine at Queen Mary University Hospital in London, England, per the Evening Standard. With more than 1.65 million people dead from COVID-19, Sir Ian, 81, said it was everyone’s duty to get vaccinated and help stop the spread of the disease.

Ian McKellen, the 81-year-old legendary British actor known for his role of Gandolf in the trilogy and Magneto in the franchise, has become one of the first celebrities to receive his first dose of the coronavirus vaccine. On Wednesday, McKellen, rocking a rainbow striped scarf, received his first jab from an NHS nurse at Queen Mary's University Hospital in London, choosing to go public with his story to encourage others to get the vaccine. «I feel very lucky to have had the vaccine.

Bury's new vaccination centre.