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Oxford and AstraZeneca will make a new Covid vaccine by AUTUMN to tackle mutated variants as coronavirus keeps evolving to escape the immune system Sir Mene Pangalos, a boss at AstraZeneca, said it aims to be ready by autumn The new jab will likely be made to target mutation on the South Africa variant Professor … Read more
Mixing Covid-19 jabs ‘can beat mutations’: Breakthrough as scientists suggest Oxford vaccine can be combined with Sputnik shot to offer enhanced coronavirus protection Mixing vaccines may boost the immune response and combat changing strains Trial results from yesterday show Sputnik is 92 per cent effective against Covid Only 16 of 16,500 people given it had … Read more
People in Oxford University’s coronavirus vaccine trial weren’t told when they were given a dose that was too small until months later, an investigation has revealed. Ethics experts said they were concerned scientists informed volunteers about the blunder in a letter that was packed with ‘gobbledygook’. The error caused controversy late last year when it … Read more
Bonmarché, the value-oriented clothing retailer, went into administration for the second time in a year on 2 December 2020. There are 226 stores and more than 1200 employees. It is owned as a separate business by Philip Day, whose EWM is also in crisis (see below). Philip Day put this company into administration a few … Read more
The Oxford coronavirus vaccine will work for over-65s, scientists say, after the German advisory committee claimed it was 6.5 per cent effective for the age group. Professor Anthony Harnden, the deputy chairman of the committee that decided the jabs priority list, vowed there was ‘really good evidence’ that it is ‘safe and effective’. He added … Read more
Bomb squad is called after ‘suspicious package’ is found near factory that produces Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine on industrial estate in north Wales Police dealing with ‘ongoing incident’ at the Wrexham Industrial Estate in Wales The estate was last week hit with severe flooding caused by Storm Christoph Area is home to the Wockhardt pharmaceutical facility which … Read more
It began serving beer on its current site in the 1600s and survived the Great Plague but the Lamb and Flag in Oxford is set to close for good after being hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic. The Grade II-listed pub where JRR Tolkien, CS Lewis and Thomas Hardy once visited has shut its doors after … Read more
Emergency teams were called out to protect supplies of the Oxford University and AstraZeneca vaccine following flooding at a manufacturing site in Wales. Excess water surrounded buildings at Wockhardt’s pharmaceutical facility on Wrexham Industrial Estate during a deluge of rain caused by Storm Christoph. This afternoon, water was still being pumped away from outside the warehouse, which … Read more
Tens of thousands of doses of Oxford University/AstraZeneca’s Covid vaccine may be binned because of confusion over which bureaucratic rules to follow, doctors fear. As part of the mission to vaccinate 13million of the most vulnerable by mid-February and get the UK out of the endless cycle of lockdowns, medics will visit the homes of … Read more
Finance boss at Oxford Covid vaccine firm is spoken to by police after driving 250 miles to his second home ‘in search of better wi-fi signal’ Lee Warren travelled from Staffordshire to Rothbury, Northumberland last week He travelled with family on January 4, the same day lockdown was announced Three days later police ordered Mr … Read more