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Top German doctor urges Chancellor Angela Merkel, 66, to have Oxford’s vaccine live on television

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A senior German immunologist has urged Angela Merkel to be vaccinated with the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine live on television.   Carsten Watzl, secretary general of the German Society for Immunology, said the Chancellor of Germany should allow over-65’s to receive the AstraZeneca vaccine and suggested she lead by example.  Officials fed doubts over the Oxford University researched jab’s effectiveness amid reports … Read more

SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: £5m-a-year fundraiser quits Oxford’s ‘toxic’ Christ Church

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Boasting a magnificent Tudor dining-hall, it was perhaps inevitable that Christ Church, Oxford’s grandest college, would feature in the first Harry Potter film. But life at the college has not, alas, proved a wizard experience for its development director, Mark Coote. He has, I can disclose, abruptly resigned after little more than three years in … Read more

Why is Britain the ONLY country to approve Oxford’s Covid jab?

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Questions are being asked over the speed at which the UK managed to approve the ‘game-changing’ Oxford University/AstraZeneca jab. Yesterday, Britain became the first and only country to give the go ahead for the use of the vaccine, following rigorous trials which found no-one who was given the jab became seriously ill.  Dr June Raine, … Read more

Oxford’s coronavirus vaccine on track to be approved ‘shortly after Christmas’

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Oxford’s coronavirus vaccine on track to be approved ‘shortly after Christmas’, top scientist says as he says study data looks ‘better than ever’ UK regulator the MHRA has been analysing study data since November 27 Testing suggests the vaccine is either 62% or 90% effective, depending on doses Either dosing regime looks good enough for … Read more

Man who lost SEVEN family members to coronavirus becomes first American dosed in Oxford’s trial

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Florida man, 23, who lost SEVEN family members to coronavirus becomes first American dosed in Oxford’s final stage of US trial for its COVID-19 vaccine Jacob Serrano, 23, has become the first American dosed in the final phase of AstraZeneca and Oxford University’s coronavirus vaccine trial Serrano has lost seven family members to COVID-19 and … Read more

What became of girls who frolicked with Bullingdon boys? Oxford’s brightest young women rose to top

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They are the candid snapshots of a gilded lost age – previously unseen images of Boris Johnson’s contemporaries at Oxford University in the 1980s taken by society photographer Dafydd Jones. While the men at the parties went on to achieve power in politics, wealth in the City or, in the case of Hugh Grant, fame … Read more