Hotel giant Marriott will pay staff a bonus to get Covid-19 vaccine March 4, 2021 Hotel giant Marriott will pay staff a bonus to get Covid-19 vaccine
Italy blocks Astrazeneca shipment to Australia as vaccine shortage row escalates March 4, 2021 The Italian government has blocked the export of an Astrazeneca vaccine shipment to Australia as a row over EU shortages continues to escalate. Astrazeneca had requested permission from the Italian government to export around 250,000 vaccine doses made at its Anagni plant near Rome to Australia. However, Italian authorities blocked the request after the British-Swedish [...]
Matt Hancock urges ‘vigilance’ as decline in Covid infections starts to slow March 4, 2021 The health secretary has urged people to “remain vigilant” as the decline in coronavirus cases has slowed down across parts of the country and in some regions reversed, latest figures showed. Imperial College London’s latest React study found the prevalence of Covid across England slumped by two-thirds between 22 January and 13 February. However, the [...]
Chinese Covid vaccine prevents severe illness in all cases, study finds March 3, 2021 The vaccine developed by China’s Sinovac Biotech prevents hospitalisation and severe illness in all cases, researchers said on Wednesday. Murat Akova, head of the third phase trials in Turkey, said CoronaVac has an 83.5 per cent efficacy. Six people were hospitalised, but they were all in the placebo group. The figure was less than the [...]
Surge testing rolled out in more London boroughs over new South Africa Covid cases March 2, 2021 The London boroughs of Barnet and Merton have become the latest regions in the capital to receive surge testing, after officials identified new cases of the South Africa Covid variant. Residents in the N2 and NW4 regions of Barnet, as well as the Wimbledon Park area in Merton, are strongly encouraged to take a Covid-19 [...]
Almost 20.5m Brits have received the first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine March 2, 2021 Almost 20.5m Brits have received the first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine
Search for mystery Brazil Covid variant narrows to 379 households March 2, 2021 The hunt for a mystery person infected with a new, more transmissible Brazil variant of coronavirus has narrowed to 379 households, the health secretary has announced. In total six cases of the new strain, also known as the P1 variant or Manaus variant, have been identified across England and Scotland. One case has still yet [...]
Millions of people in England have almost no Covid cases in their area March 2, 2021 Millions of people in England are living in regions where coronavirus cases have plummeted close to zero, according to the latest official data. Public Health England (PHE) said 971 out of 6,791 “Middle-Layer Super Output Areas” (MSOAs) in England have too few Covid cases to be published on the national database. PHE does not publish [...]
UK rolls out ‘vaccination status’ requirement for some international arrivals as ministers mull vaccine passports March 2, 2021 The government has updated its requirements for all international arrivals to England participating in the Test and Release scheme to provide their vaccination status, as ministers edge closer to introducing vaccine passports for foreign travel. The Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) introduced the Test to Release scheme in December as a way of [...]
See EU later: Austria forges vaccine alliance with Denmark and Israel March 2, 2021 Austria broke ranks with the European Union on Tuesday, vowing to work together with Israel and Denmark to produce vaccines against Covid mutations. Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said Austria and Denmark would team up with Israel to create second-generation jabs and research treatment options. The announcement is a rebuke to the EU’s joint vaccine procurement programme [...]