Oxford vaccine to be tested on children as young as six in world-first trial
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Children as young as six will be given the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine as part of a new clinical trial to test its efficacy…
Digital travel vaccine certificates backed by Cabinet ministers – and they could be used by travellers before the end of March
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Cabinet ministers have backed the use of vaccine certificates for travellers wanting to head abroad this year. Read More
In the war against Covid, an arsenal of drugs is on the way
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Reading Time: < 1 minute There is currently no cure for coronavirus, with the world pinning its hopes on mass vaccination to end the pandemic. Read More
Vaccine doses should be no more than six weeks apart, scientist behind Pfizer jab says
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Reading Time: < 1 minute The gap between doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine should be no more than six weeks apart, according to scientists behind the jab. …
Up to 40 per cent of first wave Covid cases could have been caught in hospitals
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Up to four in 10 patients with Covid in the first wave may have caught the virus in hospital, leading to a…
Will it ever end? WHO issues urgent warning as people are 'reinfected' with Covid variants
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Reading Time: < 1 minute According to Soumya Swaminathan, the chief scientist at the WHO, people have become reinfected with new variants of the pandemic. Read More
World Food Programme (WFP) cuts refugees' food rations in Rwanda as funding declines
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Today, the World Food Programme (WFP) announced it would reduce food assistance to refugees in Rwanda by a dramatic 60 percent, as…
UK's R number falls to below one for the first time since July
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Reading Time: < 1 minute The figure is now between 0.7 and 0.9, according to the latest estimate. Read More
Pfizer vaccine cuts Covid-19 transmission risk four-fold, even before second dose: study
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Reading Time: < 1 minute People vaccinated with the Pfizer vaccine are four times less likely to spread the Coronavirus, even before they have received their second…
Vaccines? The Chinese got there first... Charles Kenny details a history of mankind's battles with infectious disease
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Reading Time: < 1 minute In 1962, the Nobel Prize-winning virologist Sir Frank Burnet wrote: ‘The most likely forecast about the future of infectious disease is that…