Care home bosses demand staff get Covid jabs or risk losing their jobs amid fears over uptake

Care home bosses are demanding that staff have the Covid-19 vaccination – or risk losing their jobs. Several carers have contacted The Mail on Sunday to claim that they have been threatened with the sack or a pay cut if they refuse to have the jab. One young worker at an old people’s home in … Read more

Covid vaccine centre in Hackney is forced to close early because of ‘really low uptake’

A Covid vaccination centre in London has had to reduce its opening hours because not enough people are coming forward for the jab.  The John Scott inoculation hub in Hackney, East London, claimed ‘really slow patient uptake’ forced it to close at 2pm on three days last week. The centre, which is open to patients … Read more

When Covid puts our ethnic minorities more at risk why IS their uptake of the jab so much lower?

There’s no shortage of customers for Covid-19 vaccinations at Blackburn Cathedral, where, for generations, local folk have sung Christian hymns in their Sunday best. Today, the imposing building is open for other business. Instead of saving souls, it is busy helping to save lives.  Volunteers hold umbrellas over Lancashire’s elderly, many in wheelchairs or propped … Read more

No10 told to ensure Covid vaccine uptake stays high seven-days-a-week

No10 was told today it must ‘throw as much money as possible’ at the NHS to ensure coronavirus vaccine uptake stays high seven-days-a-week after an apparent drop in the number of people receiving jabs at the weekend.   Data shows there was up to 30 per cent drop in the number of people who received the … Read more

MMR vaccine uptake has risen for the first time in SIX years, new figures reveal 

MMR vaccine uptake has risen for the first time in SIX years, new figures reveal Proportion of children with first dose of MMR vaccine increased 90.6 per cent It is still below the 95 per cent experts say is required for herd immunity The increase follows the Daily Mail’s Give The Children Their Jabs campaign  … Read more