AstraZeneca warns EU countries it will cut deliveries of Covid-19 vaccine by 60% in first quarter

AstraZeneca has warned EU countries it will cut deliveries of its Covid-19 vaccine by 60 per cent to 31 million doses in the first quarter due to production problems.  The decrease deals another blow to Europe’s Covid-19 vaccination drive after Pfizer Inc and partner BioNTech SE slowed supplies of their vaccine to the bloc this … Read more

AstraZeneca warns EU countries it will cut deliveries of Covid-19 vaccine by 60% in first quarter

AstraZeneca has warned EU countries it will cut deliveries of its Covid-19 vaccine by 60 per cent to 31 million doses in the first quarter due to production problems.  The decrease deals another blow to Europe’s Covid-19 vaccination drive after Pfizer Inc and partner BioNTech SE slowed supplies of their vaccine to the bloc this … Read more

Pfizer jab supply worries mean target of 15m vaccinated by mid-Feb ‘very tight’, source says 

Pfizer jab supply worries will make reaching Boris Johnson’s target of 15 million people vaccinated by mid-February ‘very, very, tight,’ a government source warned last night. The number of Britons having jabs fell for the third day in a row on Monday, slumping to 204,076 – down from 324,000 on Friday. Pfizer has warned supplies will … Read more

No10 told to ensure Covid vaccine uptake stays high seven-days-a-week

The number of people getting vaccinated against Covid in the UK has fallen for the third day in a row raising fears that the rollout has stalled over the weekend. Some 204,076 people in Britain were vaccinated yesterday, January 18, with the total slumping from 225,000 on Sunday, 277,000 on Saturday and a dizzying high … Read more

Thousands of doses of the Oxford Covid-19 vaccine ‘could be wasted’

Tens of thousands of doses of Oxford University/AstraZeneca’s Covid vaccine may be binned because of confusion over which bureaucratic rules to follow, doctors fear.  As part of the mission to vaccinate 13million of the most vulnerable by mid-February and get the UK out of the endless cycle of lockdowns, medics will visit the homes of … Read more

Finance boss at Oxford Covid vaccine firm drove 250 miles to second home ‘in search of better wi-fi’

Finance boss at Oxford Covid vaccine firm is spoken to by police after driving 250 miles to his second home ‘in search of better wi-fi signal’ Lee Warren travelled from Staffordshire to Rothbury, Northumberland last week He travelled with family on January 4, the same day lockdown was announced Three days later police ordered Mr … Read more

Finance boss at Oxford Covid vaccine firm drove 250 miles to second home ‘in search of better wi-fi’

Finance boss at Oxford Covid vaccine firm is spoken to by police after driving 250 miles to his second home ‘in search of better wi-fi signal’ Lee Warren travelled from Staffordshire to Rothbury, Northumberland last week He travelled with family on January 4, the same day lockdown was announced Three days later police ordered Mr … Read more

Dame Judi Dench, 86, reveals she has had her first Covid vaccine

Dame Judi Dench, 86, has had her first Covid-19 vaccination. The Oscar-winning actress revealed on Thursday that she received her first jab last week and will now have to wait 11 weeks for her second booster.  Dench did not specify whether she had the Pfizer/BioNTech or Oxford University/AstraZeneca vaccination against the coronavirus.  Vaccinated: Dame Judi Dench, … Read more

AstraZeneca says it can deliver 2m doses a week ‘imminently’

Britain’s Covid vaccine minister was grilled and branded ‘very annoying’ by MPs today for refusing to say how many doses the UK has available and would get in the next week as the immunisation programme ramps up.  Nadhim Zahawi, the Government’s minister for Covid-19 Vaccine Deployment, and bosses of pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca said they couldn’t … Read more

AstraZeneca says it can deliver 2m doses a week ‘imminently’

Britain’s Covid vaccine minister was grilled and branded ‘very annoying’ by MPs today for refusing to say how many doses the UK has available and would get in the next week as the immunisation programme ramps up.  Nadhim Zahawi, the Government’s minister for Covid-19 Vaccine Deployment, and bosses of pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca said they couldn’t … Read more