Vaccine squads will go door-to-door to offer Covid-19 jabs to ethnic-minority families in large households amid low uptake after a successful pilot saw hundreds inoculated in past fortnight Ministers plan to roll out the scheme to increase covid vaccination uptake A successful pilot targeting multi-generation homes in Luton and Bradford has resulted in hundreds of … Read more
Car makers today demanded much greater support from the Government to help consumers buy electric vehicles if ministers’ ambitious ‘electric dreams’ are to become a reality. Rule makers must ‘put ordinary drivers at the heart of policy and planning’ if they are to win consumers’ ‘hearts and minds’, they said. Electric cars are still too … Read more
Health Secretary Matt Hancock today confirmed the Government is pushing for coronavirus vaccines to be made compulsory for care home staff. Ministers have grown increasingly concerned about low uptake among carers in parts of England and latest data shows as little as a third have had the jabs in London. Mr Hancock admitted mandatory vaccination … Read more
Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi says he is ‘very concerned’ about levels of vaccination in BAME communities and urges social media companies to do more to tackle anti-vax content Nadhim Zahawi said he is ‘very concerned’ at jab uptake in some communities He said Covid will spread like ‘wildfire’ in communities which do not get the … Read more
No10 was told today it must ‘throw as much money as possible’ at the NHS to ensure coronavirus vaccine uptake stays high seven-days-a-week after an apparent drop in the number of people receiving jabs at the weekend. Data shows there was up to 30 per cent drop in the number of people who received the … Read more