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A salvage yard owner who rolled a washed-up sea mine back home to use as a footstool has been forced to hand it back to the Royal Navy. Joe Gray, 43, found the massive mine on rocks at Perranuthnoe near his home in Penzance, Cornwall this month and rolled it up the beach to use … Read more
UK government calls for ceasefires around the world so coronavirus vaccines can be rolled out in warzones The Foreign Secretary will lead the call for local ceasefires at a meeting of UN He is expected to say letting virus spread without vaccines will increase variants Mr Raab will urge members of the UN council to … Read more
Holiday bookings by the over-50s who are anticipating being able to travel after having the coronavirus vaccine is giving a much-needed shot in the arm to the industry. Several companies say bookings from this age group have helped the sector with many now looking to head away for several weeks to make up for the … Read more
European countries have followed the UK’s lead in rolling out ‘new weapon’ vaccines in the fight against covid-19, as pensioners and medics line up to get the first shots. The mass covid-19 vaccination drive begun on Sunday in countries including Italy, Spain, Germany and Slovakia as EU governments agreed on an official roll out date … Read more
Oxford University Covid vaccine has a ‘pretty high’ chance of being rolled out BEFORE Christmas – immediately releasing four million doses to NHS with 100million on order Oxford and pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca jab is yet to be approved in UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency still reviewing trial data Professor Sarah Gilbert said chances … Read more
Mass coronavirus testing is being rolled out in secondary schools in coronavirus hotspots in North East London, South Essex and Kent from today. The launch comes after official data showed pupils aged 11 to 18 were fuelling the winter surge of infections in the capital and South East England. The Department of Health said ‘hundreds … Read more
Britain today began mass vaccination of the public with Pfizer/BioNTech’s Covid vaccine, bringing the ‘end in sight’ to pandemic lockdown rules. Here, MailOnline answers all the questions about the jab, including who will get it first, how much it costs and where people will be vaccinated. What could the logistical challenges of delivering it be? … Read more
Care home residents are expected to begin receiving Covid jabs within days after all. Officials have devised a way to split the Pfizer vaccine into small batches suitable for distribution to them. Initial plans to make vulnerable social care residents the first to get the jab were derailed when regulators put a limit on the … Read more
Mass coronavirus testing being used in Liverpool will be rolled out across 66 local authorities, the Health Secretary has revealed. Matt Hancock said areas including Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire and the West Midlands will receive the new lateral flow tests. London, Birmingham, Manchester and Coventry are among the cities to be sent a batch of tests, according … Read more
Mass Covid testing will be rolled out to university students so they can go home for Christmas, it was claimed today. Under the plans, due to be announced next week, large-scale asymptomatic testing centres are expected to be set up on campuses to screen all students. They will offer coronavirus swabs between November 30 and December 6. … Read more