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Britain managed to dish out 220,000 coronavirus vaccinations on Sunday, as the pace of the NHS drive to inoculate the most vulnerable slackened for the first time in five days. Department of Health figures showed 220,249 first doses and 818 second doses were administered across the country on January 24. This is half the almost 500,000 jabs … Read more
Britain managed to dish out 220,000 coronavirus vaccinations on Sunday, as the pace of the drive slackened. Early figures show England vaccinated 199,202 yesterday, while a further 11,519 were done in Scotland and 6,838 in Wales. There was no data for Northern Ireland. These numbers are preliminary and will be updated by the Department of … Read more
Priti Patel today blamed AstraZeneca and Pfizer for an alarming slowdown in the UK’s vaccine rollout – amid warnings the target of giving jabs to the 14million most vulnerable people by mid-February is now ‘very tight’. The Home Secretary pointed the finger at the firms after the daily rate fell for a third consecutive day, … Read more
London is ‘at risk’ of being plunged into Tier Three because the drop in its coronavirus case numbers appears to be stalling, its head of public health has claimed. Professor Kevin Fenton sought to pour cold water on the capital’s re-surging economy and public life as he warned the ‘promising reductions’ they were seeing have … Read more
Netflix stock is trading sharply lower after the streaming giant reported a slowdown in new subscribers over the summer, after a huge surge of signups in spring left demand tapped out. Shares of Netflix dropped as much as 6.54 percent in morning trading on Wednesday, one day after the streamer posted its biggest earnings miss … Read more
Wildlife scientists around the world are planning to investigate how animal behaviours have been affected by the slowdown in human activity during lockdown. They will gather data from sources including GPS, sensors and surveys to assess how more than a hundred terrestrial and marine species responded to the lockdown – or ‘Anthropause’. At least two … Read more
Housebuilder Persimmon has got back to work on its construction sites this week, amid a ‘phased process’ of reopening. The group, which is holding its annual general meeting today, said customer inquiries had remained at ‘good levels’, even during the lockdown period. But, after a ‘robust’ start to the year, the company admitted that social … Read more
House price growth drops to its lowest level in seven years as London slowdown spreads out to the regions Annual house price growth slows to just 0.7 per cent, the lowest in seven years House prices are now falling in the North East and the South East London sees small monthly uptick in price growth … Read more