Coronavirus vaccines will be rolled out in care homes before Christmas, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has promised. The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) put care home residents at the top of its priority list for the jabs. But they were not among the 5,000 or so Britons who were vaccinated today as the … Read more
People in Wales will get ID-style card to show they have been vaccinated for coronavirus, health minister says By James Tapsfield, Political Editor For Mailonline Published: 10:36 GMT, 2 December 2020 | Updated: 10:36 GMT, 2 December 2020 People in Wales are to receive an ID-style card to prove they have been vaccinated for … Read more
Operation Warp Speed head says first Americans could be given Pfizer vaccine on December 11 – and life could go back to normal by May if citizens get the vaccine COVID-19 vaccine program head Dr. Moncef Slaoui said the first Americans to receive the coronavirus vaccine could get it as soon as December 11 Psizer … Read more
Britons could be required to show QR codes on their phones to attend football matches, the theatre and other events, it was suggested today. The unique codes would only be given to those who have been vaccinated against coronavirus, under plans being considered by ministers, to signal they can attend large gatherings currently considered to … Read more
University of Oxford Oxford University academics began developing the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine in January. It is now named AZD1222, after the researchers signed a manufacturing partnership with pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca. Human trials started on April 23 and they are now in the final phase, with trials being carried out in the UK, Brazil and South … Read more
The head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund has claimed that he and his figure skater wife have already been vaccinated against coronavirus using an ‘experimental’ shot developed in Moscow. Kirill Dmitriev, 45-year-old manager of the $10billion Russian Direct Investment Fund, said that he, wife Natalia Popova and their family developed ‘double the antibodies’ of a … Read more
More than 30 percent of Americans say they won’t be vaccinated against the novel coronavirus once a jab is developed, a new survey suggests. The report, from PR firm Bospar, found that one-third of adults did not trust being immunized against the virus that has killed more than 69,000 in the US. Among age groups, … Read more
Parents who objected to ‘state control’ and refused to have their son vaccinated lose their court battle in a case that could have far-reaching consequences for ‘anti-vax’ movement Parents who refused to have their son vaccinated lost Court of Appeal case They flouted Birth and Deaths Registration Act 1953 and lost High Court battle Court … Read more