Missed opportunities, gaps in correspondence and a failure to plan ahead. If this was a vaccine race, did Australia fall at the first hurdle?Restrictions: NSW; Vic; bordersNSW Covid vaccination rate by postcode – check your suburbVaccine rollout tracke…
Covid jabs for 12- to 15-year-olds ‘set to start in weeks’
Exclusive: NHS leaders understood to have been briefed on plans to vaccinate children, beginning from 22 September• Coronavirus – latest updates• See all our coronavirus coveragePlans for Covid vaccinations for 12- to 15-year-olds across the UK are to …
A year that changed the world – and medical companies’ fortunes
While Covid sent many firms to the wall, others prospered by spotting opportunities, from test kits to mask coatingsThe pandemic has taken a heavy toll on business, gutting high streets as familiar names fell into receivership. But for some less well-k…
Coronavirus live news: UK records a further 156 deaths; thousands protest in Turkey against Covid measures
Overall death toll for UK now stands at 134,144; more than 2,000 demonstrate in Istanbul against coronavirus mandates including vaccinations and masksA year that changed the world – and medical companies’ fortunesAwaiting a ‘tsunami of Covid’: UK lectu…
UK medicines regulator approves Covid vaccines for use as booster shots
MHRA says third jab of Pfizer or AstraZeneca would be safe as JCVI meets to decide on booster programmeCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe UK’s medicines regulator has granted emergency approval for the Pfizer and AstraZenec…
The west has more vaccine doses than it needs – and no excuse not to share them | Gordon Brown
Covid vaccine production is now so high that millions of doses risk going to waste while poorer countries struggle for suppliesGordon Brown was UK prime minister between 2007 and 2010Soon, the ten-billionth Covid vaccine will roll off the production li…
West will kill thousands if it keeps on hoarding vaccines, says Gordon Brown
Former UK prime minister urges rich nations to transfer unused supplies to countries in desperate need‘The west has no excuse not to share vaccines’Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageHoarding of vaccines by wealthy western nati…
Inside an Oregon hospital amid an ‘absolutely stunning’ Covid surge
Flood of unvaccinated patients prompts comparisons to New York and Italy early in the pandemicThere was a time earlier this summer when April Rivera and the staff at the drive-through Covid testing site in southern Oregon where she worked had considere…
Unvaccinated health and care workers in England could be redeployed
Remarks by UK care minister come amid consultation on mandatory vaccines for frontline health staffCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageHealth and care sector workers in England who decline to be fully vaccinated could be moved t…
Coronavirus live: UK health secretary ‘not considering’ October firebreak; New Zealand rethinks opening borders
Sajid Javid says he ‘hasn’t even thought about’ snap lockdown if cases rise; New Zealand battles new Delta outbreakNearly 300% more Covid patients in US hospitals than a year agoNew Zealand to rethink plan to reopen borders amid Delta outbreakThird per…