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Boasting a magnificent Tudor dining-hall, it was perhaps inevitable that Christ Church, Oxford’s grandest college, would feature in the first Harry Potter film. But life at the college has not, alas, proved a wizard experience for its development director, Mark Coote. He has, I can disclose, abruptly resigned after little more than three years in … Read more
Britain today started to dish out Oxford’s game-changing Covid vaccine in what has been called a ‘pivotal moment’ in the fight against the pandemic, with an 82-year-old dialysis patient becoming the first person to receive the jab. Brian Pinker, a retired maintenance manager who describes himself as Oxford born and bred, said he was ‘so … Read more
Questions are being asked over the speed at which the UK managed to approve the ‘game-changing’ Oxford University/AstraZeneca jab. Yesterday, Britain became the first and only country to give the go ahead for the use of the vaccine, following rigorous trials which found no-one who was given the jab became seriously ill. Dr June Raine, … Read more
Britain will only have 530,000 doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine at its disposal from Monday, the Health Secretary Matt Hancock revealed today after the game-changing jab was approved by the UK medical regulator. The initial doses fall significantly short of the number touted by the Government in recent months. In May, officials suggested 30million doses of … Read more
Britain could be free of tight Covid restrictions by the end of February, after Ministers pinpointed the 15 million people who would need vaccinations to end the cycles of crippling lockdowns. With the ‘game-changing’ Oxford jab expected to be approved within days, the Government hopes that enough doses will soon be available to inoculate those … Read more
Oxford’s coronavirus vaccine on track to be approved ‘shortly after Christmas’, top scientist says as he says study data looks ‘better than ever’ UK regulator the MHRA has been analysing study data since November 27 Testing suggests the vaccine is either 62% or 90% effective, depending on doses Either dosing regime looks good enough for … Read more
AstraZeneca would have run the Oxford coronavirus vaccine trials differently if it had been in charge, a boss at the pharmaceutical giant has said. The study of the vaccine became confused and produced two possible levels of efficacy after one batch of the jabs was found to be half as potent as the rest. While … Read more
The Government has formally asked the UK’s drugs regulator to assess Oxford’s coronavirus vaccine to see if it’s good enough to roll out to members of the public. Government officials last night asked the MHRA to consider giving emergency approval for the jab so that it could be given out from next month to try and … Read more
Chris Whitty, England’s Chief Medical Officer, refused to outright back Oxford’s vaccine tonight Chris Whitty tonight ducked questions about Oxford University’s breakthrough Covid vaccine after experts accused it of being based on ‘shaky science’. England’s Chief Medical Officer refused to outright back the jab when asked about the controversy surrounding data from its late-stage trials at a Downing … Read more
They are the lab-coat wearing virus-fighting team who may have landed the killer blow in the battle against Covid-19. Oxford University has today announced its clinical trial results for its jab, which show it is up to 90 per cent effective at stopping the virus. The news is a huge boost to the Government, which … Read more