‘I am very grateful!’ Elizabeth Hurley, 55, thanks the NHS as she receives her second shot of the Covid-19 Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine By Ellie Phillips For Mailonline Published: 09:45 BST, 21 May 2021 | Updated: 09:45 BST, 21 May 2021 She recently starred in the NHS video encouraging people to get vaccinated. And on Thursday, … Read more
Welcome to the gun show! Royal fans swoon over ‘fit’ Duke of Cambridge’s biceps as he shares a snap of him getting his first Covid vaccine – with one branding him ‘Prince Hottie’ Duke of Cambridge shared photo of him receiving first Covid jab this week Many fans took to social media to praise the … Read more
Prince William rolls up his sleeves for the vaccine effort: Duke, 38, reveals he has already received his first dose – hours after Matt Hancock urged everyone eligible to step forward because it is ‘now a straight race between jab and the Indian Variant’ if England is to unlock on June 21 By Mark Duell … Read more
Malawi has burned almost 20,000 doses of expired coronavirus vaccines, despite assurances from health organisations that they were still safe to use. The 19,610 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine expired 18 days after arriving in Malawi, but both the World Health Organization (WHO) and the African Union (AU) said the jabs were safe until mid-July. … Read more
Wealthy nations must stop hoarding Covid vaccines and share them with poorer countries, a body representing the world’s jab makers said today. The International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations called for ‘immediate action’ to address the ‘vaccine apartheid’ that has emerged. It warned a ‘stepping up of responsible dose sharing’ was the only way to … Read more
Offering the Covid vaccine to children in wealthy countries when high-risk groups in poorer nations remain unvaccinated is ‘morally wrong’, the director of the Oxford Vaccine Group has said. Professor Andrew Pollard said it felt ‘completely wrong’ that vaccines were being rolled out to children who had a ‘near-to-zero’ risk of severe disease or death from … Read more
A young nursing student has been hospitalised with three blood clots on her right lung just three weeks after receiving the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine. Ellie Peacock, who works on a casual team that is exposed to potential Covid-positive patients, was given her first dose of the vaccine on March 31, a week before the government … Read more
India’s devastating second coronavirus wave and its ban on exporting vaccines has left the Covax scheme for other nations facing a shortfall of 140 million doses. India is the largest manufacturer for the program, which distributes free vaccines to developing countries, but the country stopped exports of the AstraZeneca vaccine in March in order to … Read more
Under-40s could get AstraZeneca vaccine after all: Plan to offer alternative Covid jab could be reversed amid fears over Indian variant Decision to offer under-40s an alternative jab to AstraZeneca could be reversed Last month, it was said under-40s should get different jab due to blood clot risk But advice could be changed to protect … Read more
Given the success of our vaccine programme we cannot allow NHS Trusts to insist on blanket policies that stop mothers, children or any other patient benefiting from the vital support of a loved one, writes MP ALICIA KEARNS By Alicia Kearns, Conservative Mp For Rutland And Melton, For The Mail On Sunday Published: 11:08 BST, … Read more