The EU has blocked a shipment of AstraZeneca vaccines from leaving Italy for Australia using controversial export laws for the first time. Authorities in Italy refused to grant a licence for 250,000 doses manufactured in the country to be exported, meaning the shipment could not leave Thursday as planned. Officials in Rome had informed the … 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
Hungary is set to receive its first shipment of the Chinese coronavirus jab Sinopharm by the end of the month Hungary plans to start administering doses of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine this week It has ordered enough supplies from Beijing to inoculate 2.5 million people Comes after its PM, Viktor Orban, criticised EU’s rollout for … Read more
Nearly three people will be vaccinated during the first rollout of Pfizer-BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine in the US. During a press briefing of the federal government’s Operation Warp Speed on Wednesday, officials said 636 locations, mostly large health-care systems with enough storage capacity, will be receiving the jabs. According to chief operating officer Gen Gustave Perna, … Read more
Truck driver Eamonn Harrison, 23, and British-Romanian Gheorghe Nica, 43, are accused of killing the group of Vietnamese citizens, who were found in a container near Grays, Essex on October 23.
Ministers face fresh fury today as a vital shipment of coronavirus protective kit from Turkey looks set to be delayed again – with some hospitals resorting to washing medical gowns for reuse. Downing Street has been trying to play down expectations over the arrival of 84 tonnes of life-saving supplies, which failed to turn up … Read more