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Britain’s international travel ban will probably stay in place until Europe’s vaccine drive picks up pace, SAGE adviser says Sir Jeremy Farrar said the biggest threat to the UK now came from abroad Wellcome Trust chief added the continent was facing a ‘terrible month or two’ Ministers are yet to approve holidays this summer with … Read more
Vaccine hesitancy could lead to 20,000 extra coronavirus deaths over the next two years, a study has suggested. Researchers warned that if a significant number of people turn the jab down, it may allow the virus to spread in high numbers when lockdowns are eased, posing a constant threat to the elderly and ill. The … Read more
Rapid coronavirus tests may miss four in 10 asymptomatic people, a major review has concluded. Researchers who analysed 64 studies of the effectiveness of lateral flow devices found they failed to detect 42 per cent of cases who didn’t show signs of illness. The Cochrane review found the tests, which give a result in 30 … Read more
Pfizer launches first clinical trial of a PILL to treat COVID-19 that prevents the virus from making copies of itself inside human cells Pfizer Inc has launched early-stage human trials of an experimental oral drug to treat coronavirus called PF-07321332 It belongs to a class of drugs called protease inhibitors, which would inhibit an enzyme … Read more
EU leaders are threatening to block shipments of AstraZeneca vaccines to the UK even as its citizens balk at the idea of taking the jab, leaving millions of doses sitting un-used across the continent. There are currently 5.5million shots of AstraZeneca’s Covid vaccine sitting in storage in Europe, data from the European Center for Disease … Read more
Russia hopes to make more money on Covid-19 vaccines than selling Kalashnikov guns and other weapons. ‘Sputnik V is our new oil,’ declared pro-Kremlin popular newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda (KP). The claims came as Vladimir Putin was today being vaccinated against coronavirus, according to the Kremlin. His spokesman did not say which of three Russian-made vaccines … Read more
EU regulators have ruled that the AstraZeneca vaccine is safe and effective after Europe rushed to ban the jab over sporadic reports of blood clots. And, John Barrowman, 54, received his second shot of the Covid-19 Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine, on Friday, and urged others to get the jab, insisting, there’s ‘nothing to be afraid of!’ The … Read more
HOW VACCINE TARGETS HAVE SHIFTED OVER TIME January 26 AstraZeneca’s chief executive Pascal Soriot predicted the UK would have vaccinated all over-50s by the end of March. February 5 Health Secretary Matt Hancock says all over-50s were expected to be vaccinated by early May. February 21 No10 announces a target of April 15 to have … Read more
The coronavirus vaccines being rolled out in Britain work better against the Brazilian variant (pictured) than first feared The coronavirus vaccines being rolled out in Britain work better against the Brazilian variant than first feared, research suggests. An Oxford University study found its vaccine and the jab made by Pfizer perform just as well against … Read more
The coronavirus vaccines being rolled out in Britain work better against the Brazilian variant (pictured) than first feared The coronavirus vaccines being rolled out in Britain work better against the Brazilian variant than first feared, research suggests. An Oxford University study found its vaccine and the jab made by Pfizer perform just as well against … Read more