Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock will celebrate the success of the largest vaccination programme in British history in a speech today (Wednesday 2 June).
Read more...Janssen’s single-dose COVID-19 vaccine has been authorised for use by the UK medicines regulator.
Read more...Lawmakers around the world should include “sunset clauses” in legislation to ensure Covid-19 health status certificates are only used during the pandemic, a new study says.
Read more...Over 1.3 million new people have registered to use the NHS App since the addition of COVID-19 vaccine status was announced on 7 May.
Read more...Around 72% of UK adults have received a first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, the latest figures published today (Sunday 23 May) show.
Read more...Thousands of volunteers will receive a booster COVID-19 vaccine in a new clinical trial launching today, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has announced.
Read more...The government has outlined new decisive actions to halt the spread of the B1.617.2 variant of concern first identified in India.
Read more...The health service could use this summer to make significant inroads in tackling the huge and growing waiting list backlog if major investment was made available and NHS organisations
Read more...Vaccines tailored to tackle COVID-19 variants are to be accelerated through new state-of-the-art labs, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has announced today (Wednesday 5 May).
Read more...Care home residents will be able to leave their home for “low risk” visits without having to self-isolate for 14 days on their return the…
Read more...An extra 60 million doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine have been secured by the UK government to help support the booster Covid-19 vaccination programme beginning from the Autumn.
Read more...A series of unseen photographs capturing the size and scale of the UK-wide vaccination programme have been published by the UK government today ahead of a new campaign urging under-50s to get the jab.
Read more...COVID-19 was the third leading cause of death in England and Wales in March behind dementia and heart disease according to data from the Office of National Statistics (ONS)
Read more...UN Human Rights Commissioner and former Irish President, Mary Robinson, has called on the UK and the EU to support a waiver of intellectual property…
Read more...The first Moderna jabs will be delivered in England today (Tuesday) as the NHS vaccination programme reaches another milestone.
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