Prime Minister Boris Johnson scraps ALL travel corridors for UK arrivals January 15, 2021 All travel corridors with the UK will be suspended for the next four weeks, the Prime Minister has announced, as ministers scramble to prevent new mutations entering the country. Speaking at today’s Downing Street press conference, Boris Johnson said all countries will be removed from the quarantine-free travel list from 4am on Monday morning. Travellers [...]
Pfizer to temporarily reduce vaccine deliveries to UK and EU January 15, 2021 Pfizer will temporarily reduce deliveries of its Covid vaccine to the UK and across Europe from next week, according to the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH). The move will mean countries will receive fewer vaccines than expected while the pharmaceutical giant upgrades its production capacity. Pfizer told Norway this morning it would receive 18 [...]
London has lowest R rate in the UK January 15, 2021 London’s R rate has dropped to the lowest in the UK, according to the latest official figures. The rate of reproduction of the virus has dropped to a best estimate of 0.9 to 1.2, down from a range of 1.1 to 1.4 last week. The figure means London currently has the lowest R rate in [...]
Breaking: Brazil Covid mutation already in the UK January 15, 2021 A Brazilian variant of coronavirus has arrived in Britain, one of the UK’s leading scientists announced this morning, as the government unveiled a new research group to study the various Covid mutations. Speaking during a Science and Media Centre briefing, Professor Wendy Barclay said: “There are two different types of Brazilian variant and one of [...]
UK slaps travel ban on South America and Portugal over Brazil Covid mutation January 14, 2021 UK-bound arrivals from South America and Portugal will be banned from tomorrow amid mounting fears about a new Brazilian variant of coronavirus. Transport secretary Grant Shapps said the change will come into force from 4am on Friday. He announced he had made the “urgent decision” following a meeting with the government’s Covid Operations committee at [...]
London missing out on ‘fair share’ of vaccine January 14, 2021 London is missing out on its “fair share” of the vaccine, Sadiq Khan has said, as he urged ministers to reassess the formula for distributing doses across the UK. The mayor of London has written an urgent letter to vaccines tsar Nadhim Zahawi calling on him to scale up vaccine supply to meet different population [...]
Boots and Superdrug pharmacies start rolling out vaccine January 14, 2021 High street pharmacies including Boots and Superdrug will start rolling out coronavirus vaccines from today as the UK ramps up plans to vaccinate 2m people a week by the end of the month. Six stores around the country, including a Boots store in Halifax and a Superdrug chemist in Guildford, were the first to start [...]
Covid immunity ‘lasts five months’ but may not prevent transmission January 14, 2021 People infected with Covid-19 are likely to be naturally protected against reinfection for around five months, according to the first government-funded study on the issue. The first report from Public Health England’s (PHE) Siren study found that antibodies from past coronavirus infection lasted an average of at least five months. However, scientists warned that those [...]
City workers urged to complain if forced into the office January 13, 2021 The City of London Corporation has called on workers to complain if they are being pressured into coming into work during England’s third national lockdown. The Corporation has urged Square Mile workers to file an anonymous complaint if their employers are forcing to break lockdown rules, which state that everyone must stay at home unless [...]
Breaking: UK records more than 1,500 daily Covid deaths January 13, 2021 The UK has recorded its highest ever daily Covid death rate, as ministers today warned the “worst is yet to come”. Latest figures from Public Health England showed a further 1,564 coronavirus-related deaths in the past 24 hours. The number exceeds the previous record of 1,325 deaths last Friday, and takes the total number of [...]
