Achievement hailed by PM as ‘hugely significant milestone’ means people in late 40s should be next to be immunisedCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAll over-50s and high-risk groups in the UK have been offered a coronavirus va... Read Full Story
Reviewing the ongoing vaccination exercise, Muhammed Yusuf, a public health analyst, has urged the Federal Government to adopt a public-private partnership approach to administering COVID-19 vaccines. Yusuf argued that bringing the private sector players on board would increase resources and capabilities to make COVID-19 vaccines accessible to all. He believed would close the glaring execution […] Read Full Story
Nesrine Malik’s columns | Ex-leaders compared | Love for Guardian letters | A mother’s placeYour columnist Nesrine Malik writes (11 April) that the pandemic has made her reflect wistfully on the bargain she made when she left Sudan to find success far ... Read Full Story
Nightmare scenarios involving deadly new variants are making us all too gloomy – but there’s a scientific case for optimismIt can be quite easy, reading the press, to believe that the pandemic will never end. Even when good news about vaccines started ... Read Full Story
App was to have been updated before English lockdown easing, but firms objected to data-sharing changesCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageMinisters have paused a planned update to the NHS Covid-19 app after Apple and Google blo... Read Full Story
Inhaling budesonide found to shorten recovery for over-65s, and over-50s with underlying conditionsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA relatively cheap, inhaled asthma drug helps older people struggling at home with Covid to r... Read Full Story
Snowfall in some areas dampens hopes of businesses reopening their doors for first time in monthsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe lifting of lockdown restrictions to allow people in England to use pub beer gardens and din... Read Full Story
After a year that saw a rise in echoes for a shift from being consumer of scientific innovations to producing, Nigeria finally got its act together on funding the research and development of home-grown coronavirus vaccines. The Health Sector Research and Development Intervention Scheme was brought to life as the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) […] Read Full Story
MPs to consider formal investigation after reports David Cameron used private channels to lobby on firm’s behalf Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAn influential group of MPs are to discuss launching a formal inquiry into the ... Read Full Story
Analysis: joint investment in scaling up production could be on cards if differences can be resolvedCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageWithin the latest spat between Brussels and AstraZeneca, and by extension Boris Johnson’s go... Read Full Story
Race hots up as rivals spell out vision for region, one of the worst affected by the pandemic in the UKCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe people of the West Midlands have been hit by the coronavirus pandemic worse than most... Read Full Story
The pandemic has revealed the true value of social interaction – and even changed my outlook on meeting new peopleLast year, in what would turn out to be my last night out for a while, I found myself in a dreaded situation: at a friend’s drinks, speaki... Read Full Story
Latest updates: prime minister says UK will feel effects of third coronavirus wave ‘in due course’Boris Johnson: vaccine cooperation vital to help combat third waveUK considers Covid traffic light system for international travel‘There are times when I... Read Full Story
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, has said that the total number of active coronavirus (COVID-19) cases is now 11,808. This follows the confirmation of 86 fresh cases of...
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Nigeria has not recorded a fresh COVID-19 death since Saturday, data from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control showed. In an update, the disease control agency said just 86 new cases were reported on Sunday, the lowest in months. This comes as Nigeria continues to roll-out its vaccination program across States. The NCDC said … Continue reading COVID-19: Again, No Deaths As Nigeria Records Lowest Cases In March Read Full Story
AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine is 80 percent effective at preventing the disease in the elderly and does not increase the risk of blood clots, the biotech firm said Monday, following its US phase III efficiency trials. It was 79 percent effective at preventing symptomatic Covid-19 in the overall population and 100 percent effective at preventing … Continue reading US Trial Finds AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine 79 Percent Effective, No Blood Clot Risk Read Full Story
Photographer David Levene found himself drawn to water, and the River Thames at low tide, for his second lockdown photo diary.‘I seem to be returning to water again and again as a theme. This surely has something to do with my love of swimming, as exem... Read Full Story
Trust in AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine in many European countries has plunged following controversy around the jab in recent weeks, according to a new survey unveiled Monday by British pollsters YouGov. A majority of people in the biggest European Union member states, including Germany, France, Spain and Italy, now see the inoculation as unsafe, the recent
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Tory thinktank Bright Blue says largest increases in claims during first nine months of Covid were in citiesAt least 40% of households in four London boroughs are having to claim help with affording a place to live as the economic impact of Covid-19 ex... Read Full Story
Resolution Foundation suggests official figures showing growth ‘hugely disrupted’ by furlough scheme Half of British workers had a real-terms pay cut in the year to autumn 2020, despite official figures showing the fastest earnings growth in almost two... Read Full Story
The National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) says it is working to ensure that all patients of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) are given a priority in the ongoing COVID-19 vaccination in the country. The Director-General of the NACA, Dr Gambo Aliyu, stated this on Sunday while briefing reporters at an empowerment … Continue reading COVID-19 Vaccination: We Will Ensure HIV/AIDS Patients Are Given Priority, Says NACA Read Full Story
Sage experts are worried about overseas breaks leading to rise in vaccine-resistant variants in UKCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageLifting the ban on foreign holidays in the coming months could risk another lockdown next wint... Read Full Story
South Africa has sold a million doses of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine for distribution in 14 fellow African nations, the health minister announced Sunday. South Africa last month suspended its vaccination programme, which had started with AstraZeneca jabs after doubts were raised over that vaccine’s efficacy against a local variant of Covid-19. Pretoria instead … Continue reading COVID-19: South Africa Sells Its AstraZeneca Vaccine Doses To AU Read Full Story
Exclusive: Halting distribution would hit Britain badly but not significantly help EU, analysis findsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageBritain’s Covid vaccine programme faces a two-month delay in the event of an EU export ban,... Read Full Story
Call for lone parents to be protected by equality law to end ‘systematic discrimination’ Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe mother who successfully campaigned for Dominic Cummings to change lockdown restrictions for single ... Read Full Story
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