World climate summit in Britain may go virtual if countries struggle to vaccinate citizens and new Covid wave breaks out Glasgow is due to host climate summit this year with Covid-19 measures in place But some fear the sessions may have to be virtual due to too many uncertainties More than 20,000 delegates attended last … Read more
London is still lagging behind in the vaccine rollout with some boroughs having vaccinated a third fewer people than parts of Staffordshire, where the programme is roaring ahead. NHS England figures show 79 per cent of over-55s in the country had at least one dose of the vaccine by March 14 — the most recent day … 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
REVEALED: The nine areas of the UK that ‘will give all over-50s their first Covid vaccination by March 7’ – almost a MONTH ahead of schedule Over 50s in Bristol, Leicestershire and West Yorkshire could get a jab by March 7 Six other areas could be injecting their first doses to over 50s by the … Read more
An academy chief today cast doubt on ‘optimistic’ plans to get all pupils back into school at the start of March as he warned dates were ‘being pulled out of thin air.’ As the PM faces mounting pressure to send children in England back to school, Downing Street has suggested that all primary and secondary … Read more
Wales has hit its target of offering coronavirus jabs to all care home residents, over 70s, frontline workers and the clinically vulnerable. First Minister Mark Drakeford said the milestone is a ‘truly phenomenal effort’ for the country’s vaccine rollout, which has so far seen 684,097 people receive their first dose. In England, people in the … Read more
CDC will send funding and ‘support’ to South Carolina to speed its vaccine rollout in an effort to stop the South African variant from taking hold there CDC director Dr Rochelle Walensky said the agency is offering ‘support’ to states where variants threaten to spread South Carolina will get funding and ‘resources for increased testing, … Read more
Teachers and school support staff should be given a Covid vaccine at half-term to allow classrooms to open as soon as possible, Sir Keir Starmer said today. The Labour leader called for educationalists to be bumped up the priority list for jabs amid anger at the continued closure. The Government has been sending out mixed … Read more
Britain’s top schools have unveiled a bold plan to vaccinate the country’s entire teaching staff and get pupils back into the classroom within weeks. Headteachers have drawn up a detailed blueprint to get the educational workforce, including support staff, inoculated over the February half-term week. The ambitious scheme could prove a political lifeline to Prime … Read more
GPs are being urged to ‘stand down’ routine appointments so they can prioritise Covid vaccinations, it was claimed last night. Guidance sent to doctors says the jabs should be their top priority – with other ‘non-essential’ activities postponed, potentially for weeks. NHS England has already advised surgeries to focus on the delivery of the vaccine … Read more