Vaccinate at-risk health and care workers in two weeks – union
All health workers should have their jab by the end of January, the British Medical Association said.
All health workers should have their jab by the end of January, the British Medical Association said.
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MPs have been recalled to vote on the third national lockdown, which came into legal force on Wednesday.
A new hub is due to open at an orthopaedic hospital with further sites mooted for the county.
Brian Pinker received the vaccination from nurse Sam Foster at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s Churchill Hospital.
Just over half a million doses of the newly approved vaccine will be available from Monday.
More bad news about the pandemic dominates the nation’s newspapers.
The UK’s chief medical officers said “decisive action” was needed to give more people an initial vaccination.
The leaders said they ‘strongly supported’ the advice of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation.
The Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association said the decision to delay second doses to hospital staff was ‘ill thought out’.
Rates of infection are continuing to rise in all regions of the country, according to the latest data from Public Health England.
Rates of infection are rising in all regions of the country, according to the latest weekly surveillance report from Public Health England
GP leaders have called the move ‘grossly and patently unfair to tens of thousands of our most at-risk patients’.
People have been warned to ring in the New Year by staying at home, leaving the parties for later next year.
Professor Andrew Pollard said the development and approval of the vaccine is ‘an absolute triumph of academic collaboration’.