Piers Corbyn arrested over leaflets comparing UK’s vaccine programme to Auschwitz February 4, 2021 Piers Corbyn, former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s brother, has been arrested for handing out leaflets comparing the nation’s Covid vaccination programme to Auschwitz. The Metropolitan Police told London newspaper Jewish News: “Officers investigating reports of malicious material in the form of a leaflet being circulated in south London in late January have made two arrests. [...]
Square Mile launches rapid Covid test site for City workers February 4, 2021 The City of London Corporation has opened a rapid Covid test site for workers in the Square Mile who do not have coronavirus symptoms to get tested once a week. The site on 80 Leadenhall Street, launched in partnership with the NHS, will allow City workers still going into the office and people living in [...]
More than 1m Londoners have received first dose of Covid vaccine February 4, 2021 More than 1m people in London have received their first dose of the coronavirus vaccine, following concerns that the capital had been falling behind in the nation’s immunisation programme. Official figures published last night showed 1,011,490 Londoners have received their first dose of either the Astrazeneca/Oxford University or Pfizer/Biontech vaccines, while a further 60,658 people [...]
International travel has ‘biggest impact’ on Covid death rates February 4, 2021 International travel had the biggest impact on Covid death rates in the first wave, according to a new study, Researchers from the University of Aberdeen studied a range of factors including border arrivals, population density, the population of people living in urban areas, BMI, age and smoking prevalence. They found that an increase of 1m [...]
Which Covid vaccines has the UK government ordered? February 4, 2021 The UK passed a significant milestone yesterday after health secretary Matt Hancock announced that more than 10m people across the country have now received their first dose of the coronavirus vaccine. The news buoyed hopes of a return to normality by the summer, with Britain now firmly ahead of targets to vaccinate the most vulnerable [...]
Glaxo shares slip after it reports sales dip and Covid vaccine variant deal February 3, 2021 Glaxo shares tumble after it reports drop in sales and vaccine partnership
Boris Johnson: Hotel quarantine for arrivals to UK to be outlined tomorrow February 3, 2021 Ministers will provide further details on the UK’s hotel quarantine policy tomorrow, the Prime Minister has announced. Speaking at a Downing Street press conference, Boris Johnson said the health secretary would set out the government’s plan for introducing a mandatory 10-day quarantine on arrivals to the UK from 30 countries. Johnson announced the measures last [...]
10m people in UK have now received first dose of Covid vaccine February 3, 2021 Ten million people in Britain have now received their first dose of the coronavirus vaccine, the health secretary has announced, in a major boost for hopes of a return to normality. Matt Hancock took to Twitter this afternoon to announce the “hugely significant milestone in our national effort against this virus”. “Every jab makes us [...]
Astrazeneca to roll out ‘next generation’ vaccine for Covid mutations by autumn February 3, 2021 Astrazeneca aims to produce a “next generation” Covid-19 vaccine especially suited to new mutations as soon as the autumn, a senior executive said today. Mene Pangalos, a senior research chief at the British-Swedish firm, said Astrazeneca will start developing a new vaccine for the mutated strains and will look to make them public “as rapidly [...]
Test and Trace is failing to persuade 20,000 people to self-isolate each day, Dido Harding admits February 3, 2021 Around 20,000 people each day who should be self-isolating are not being convinced to do so by the government’s NHS Test and Trace scheme, chief executive Baroness Dido Harding has admitted. Facing a grilling from the Commons science and technology committee, Harding said that based on last week’s Test and Trace figures “circa 20,000 people [...]
