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Boots and Superdrug started dishing out coronavirus vaccines this morning after No10 finally turned to the high street to deliver its lockdown-ending promise of immunising almost 14million people by mid-February. MailOnline revealed this week that the Boots store in Halifax and Superdrug branch in Guildford, Surrey, would be included in the first wave of high street chemists … Read more
Boots and Superdrug start dishing out Covid vaccines as six high street pharmacies are recruited to hit 13.9m target by mid-February — but independent chemists fear UK will fail unless it uses ‘many more, much sooner’ By Connor Boyd Assistant Health Editor For Mailonline Published: 08:38 GMT, 14 January 2021 | Updated: 08:40 GMT, 14 … Read more
Britain’s High Street pharmacies won’t start dishing out coronavirus vaccines until Thursday, it was revealed today amid mounting pressure on Boris Johnson to launch round-the-clock inoculations. Superdrug and Boots will only have one site ready to dish out vaccines when the roll-out is finally expanded later this week, with dozens more sites on standby to ramp … Read more
Britons can now buy coronavirus antibody tests on the high street to find out if they have had Covid-19 in the past. Superdrug has today relaunched its blood testing service after having it shut down by regulators in May over accuracy concerns. The retailer changed its service to take blood from veins instead of relying … Read more
Superdrug today became the first high street retailer to sell a coronavirus antibody test to the public – and the chain claims it is almost 100 per cent accurate. Britons buying the £69 kit have to take finger-prick blood samples themselves, which are then posted to a private laboratory where results are turned around within … Read more
Superdrug has become the first high street retailer to sell a coronavirus antibody test to the public for £69 with almost 100 per cent accuracy. The test is produced by medical giant Abbott, which was the second antibody test approved by ministers this month after that made by Roche. Blood samples have to be posted … Read more
Someone who is infected with the coronavirus can spread it with just a simple cough or a sneeze, scientists say. Nearly 4,000 people with the virus are now confirmed to have died and more than 110,000 have been infected. Here’s what we know so far: What is the coronavirus? A coronavirus is a type of … Read more
A mother-of-two has been left distraught after a £12 hair toner burned through two feet of her hair. Shanon Kent, 23, from Immingham, Lincolnshire, said she applied the silver toner to her blonde hair for ten minutes hoping it would make her platinum locks more vibrant. Her scalp then started to itch and she washed … Read more