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The UK’s Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency is reportedly ready to give it the green light this week, making the UK the first Western country to approve a Covid vaccine. … [Read more...] about First Covid vaccine could get UK approval within DAYS – as government bids to recruit celebrities and social media stars to counter ‘concerning’ anti-vaxxer theories online

Conservative former minister Sir Edward Leigh said many of his colleagues were voting in favour of lockdown regulations “out of loyalty or because we want to preserve the Government’s authority” – but were “worried” about successive lockdowns being “less and less effective”. … [Read more...] about Become an NHS volunteer and help millions of Brits get the coronavirus vaccine

“To me it’s actually impressive how well-organized and sophisticated the anti-vax movement has become,” said Dr Peter Hotez, the director of the Texas children’s hospital center for vaccine development at Baylor College of Medicine, and the father of an autistic child. Hotez, who maintains an active Twitter presence, said he struggled to identify whether Twitter accounts were human or bots. … [Read more...] about Russian trolls ‘spreading discord’ over vaccine safety online

Public health officials have offered a glimmer of hope to the rest of the world, with the reassuring results of its speedy vaccine rollout. … [Read more...] about At least 23 people die in Norway just days after getting Pfizer Covid vaccine

Figures on a Monday tend to be lower than the rest of the week due to a lag in reporting over the weekend. … [Read more...] about UK has given more Covid vaccine doses than rest of Europe COMBINED as 2.6m jabs handed out