Hundreds of desperate Irish residents try to book jabs in NORTHERN Ireland where half the population has been vaccinated – compared to just 10% south of the border People from as far as Dublin and Galway have even been making the journey Around half the adult population has now been inoculated in Northern Ireland Head … Read more
European leaders were divided last night over whether to press ahead with an extraordinary ban on vaccine exports to Britain. Brussels sources confirmed that the EU is ready to block a shipment of the AstraZeneca vaccine to the UK from a plant in the Netherlands. But the issue has triggered a major rift among leaders … Read more
Almost three-quarters of EU countries are experiencing spiralling Covid infection rates, forcing vast swathes of the continent back into lockdown. As a third wave sweeps across Europe, Britons were yesterday warned that foreign summer holidays are ‘extremely unlikely’. In France alone, 21 million people awoke yesterday to a fresh draconian lockdown. Millions more in Italy, Germany, … Read more
Christine Livingston, who retired from the NHS in 2014, completed ten hours of online learning with St John Ambulance in February Volunteers with medical backgrounds who have completed hours of training to give Covid-19 vaccinations are being turned away from the job, it has emerged. St John Ambulance has trained 30,000 volunteers across three roles since … Read more
Secret talks have been launched with India over vaccine export restrictions that threaten to slow the UK rollout of jabs, the Mail can reveal. Health Secretary Matt Hancock told MPs that a ‘delay’ to a shipment of five million AstraZeneca jabs from India was a key factor in shortages that will slow the pace of the … Read more
Italy and France fold over AstraZeneca jabs: Mario Draghi and Emmanuel Macron vow to ‘quickly resume’ using the vaccine once European Medicines Agency gives final clearance By Reuters Published: 17:55 GMT, 16 March 2021 | Updated: 18:06 GMT, 16 March 2021 Italy and France have committed to ‘quickly’ resume inoculations of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine once … Read more
The rapid success of drive-through vaccination centres could lead the UK out of lockdown before Boris Johnson’s roadmap suggests. A trial that delivered 2,300 Covid jabs in just one day at a car park near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, was 360 per cent more than an equivalent clinic, The Mirror reports. But whilst the system … Read more
GBBO star Nadiya Hussain fronts campaign urging Bangladeshis in Britain to get their Covid jabs amid hesitancy and low uptake of the vaccine within the community Nadiya Hussain has joined NHS in a bid to tackle hesitancy surrounding the jab She was joined by Asma Khan from the Chef’s Table and MasterChef’s Dr Saliha NHS data … Read more
The EU has blocked a shipment of AstraZeneca vaccines from leaving Italy for Australia using controversial export laws. Authorities in Rome notified the EU of its intention to bar 250,000 doses from leaving the country last week, and acted on Thursday. Brussels’ officials had the power to object to the move but didn’t, sources told … Read more
Fury after Spanish king’s ‘privileged’ sisters ‘get Covid jabs in UAE rather than wait until they were due to receive them’ Princess Elena, 57, and Princess Cristina, 55, reportedly got vaccinated while visiting their father in Abu Dhabi last month Under Spain’s Covid-19 immunisation programme, the princesses do not yet qualify for jabs The hard-left … Read more