Asylum seekers in their 20s were ‘fast-tracked for Covid vaccines ahead of the elderly’

Asylum seekers in their 20s were ‘fast-tracked for Covid vaccines ahead of the elderly’

Asylum seekers in their 20s and 30s were fast-tracked for Covid vaccines ahead of elderly Britons, Matt Hancock has claimed. In a diary entry from mid-February last year, the former health secretary... Read more »
Monkeypox vaccines to be piloted in smaller but equally effective doses

Monkeypox vaccines to be piloted in smaller but equally effective doses

Three NHS sites are set to begin a pilot offering eligible patients smaller but equally effective doses of the vaccine used for the UK’s monkeypox outbreak, stretching existing supplies to protect more... Read more »
UK buys more vaccines for monkeypox as cases top 2,100

UK buys more vaccines for monkeypox as cases top 2,100

British has bought another 100,000 doses of vaccine to stop monkeypox as the number of cases across the country has risen to more than 2,130, the majority of them in London, officials... Read more »
Scientists find world’s first cure for heart attacks using same mRNA technology as Covid vaccines 

Scientists find world’s first cure for heart attacks using same mRNA technology as Covid vaccines 

Scientists discover world’s first cure for heart attacks using the same mRNA technology as Covid vaccines Technology used to make Covid vaccines is now helping to regenerate hearts  Genetic codes called mRNAs... Read more »
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Mandatory Covid vaccines AXED for NHS and care staff in huge government U-turn

Health Secretary Sajid Javid said he stands by his decision to make Covid jabs mandatory in the social care sector back in November as it was ‘the needed at the time’. Video... Read more »
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NHS staff deliver quarter of a million Covid vaccines over Christmas period in South West London – South London News

NHS staff and volunteers working over the festive period administered 250,000 jabs in a three week period to South-west Londoners. From December 13 to January 2, staff vaccinated 249,776 people, including 221, 649... Read more »
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‘Mass deaths and hospitalisations are now history’: Vaccines expert backs PM’s Covid measures

A leading vaccines expert backed Boris Johnson’s refusal to toughen England’s Covid restrictions, saying that mass deaths and hospitalisations from the deadly disease are ‘history’. Professor Sir John Bell, regius professor of... Read more »

NHS urges people to get ‘gift of a jab’ at booster centres open on Christmas Day | Vaccines and immunisation

NHS England has said there are 200,000 vaccination appointments available on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day and urged anybody due a booster to consider coming forward “to get the gift... Read more »
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NELFT: Mandatory vaccines could hit staffing in east London

Published: 7:00 AM November 26, 2021 Health staff numbers in east London could be dealt a “big hit” by making Covid-19 vaccinations mandatory, an NHS leader has warned.  Nine in ten staff are already vaccinated at... Read more »
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Covid UK news live: Booster vaccines extended to over-40s

Oliver Dowden ‘confident’ UK will have ‘decent’ Christmas this year Boris Johnson today warned that the UK “cannot afford to be complacent” about a new wave of coronavirus in Europe. At a... Read more »