How 12 times more people are dying from cancer than Covid – as experts warn treatment backlog will become ‘collateral damage’ of the pandemic Figures show 36 people on average died each day from covid in the last week By comparison, cancer
Oxford University’s Covid vaccine will work on over-65s, scientists have insisted after German regulators claimed it was only 6.5 per cent effective. Doctors in England say elderly patients are already turning up worried that they will get a jab that won’t work
The Novavax coronavirus vaccine could submit its results to the UK regulator within two weeks, says the clinical trial chief, with supplies set to be available to Britain as soon as this summer. Early results show the jab is 89.3 effective against
Britain today passed the halfway point of its mammoth Covid vaccination drive as the number of people to receive the first dose of a jab surged to 7.9million with 446,000 vaccines given out yesterday. A total of 445,941 Covid vaccines were administered
England’s coronavirus R rate is now between 0.7 and 1.0, according to SAGE’s latest estimates and the number of people testing positive for coronavirus in the UK today fell again to 29,079 – down 28 per cent from last Friday. The Government’s
Britain is on course to have a fourth approved coronavirus vaccine in its arsenal after studies of the new Novavax jab yielded promising results last night, as the nation finally turns the tide on its Covid crisis. The jab is expected to
The EU’s vaccine war entered a dangerous new phase today as the bloc introduced rules that will allow it to block life-saving jabs getting to Britain and European politicians accused the UK of ‘hijacking’ doses. The new controls, which will come into
A SAGE warning revealing that scientists are only 50% sure the Kent strain of coronavirus could be more deadly was handed to ministers just hours before last night’s ‘scare-mongering’ press conference, it has been revealed. Ministers were only informed about the development
Heartbreaking footage has revealed Covid patient Tony Brown’s dying wish to see his wife again just a day before he succumbed to Covid-19. Mr Brown was a patient at the Barnet Hospital in North London where Sky News revealed the harrowing scenes
A great-grandmother who caught coronavirus five days after getting vaccinated against the disease has died. Mary Green, 92, received her first dose at a care home in North Tyneside on New Year’s Eve, giving her family hope she would not face an
Four in 10 deaths in England and Wales in the week ending January 15 were caused by Covid-19, ONS figures revealed today as the total number of people killed by the disease since the pandemic began passed 100,000. Data from the Office