Covid-19

Reading Time: < 1 minuteUse of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine should be suspended following reports of serious post-jab blood clots in Norway, Ireland’s deputy medical chief…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAlmost two thirds of people who died or became severely ill from Covid in December may have caught the disease in hospital,…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt was midway through February when André Machado realized Brazil’s coronavirus catastrophe was racing into a bewildering and remorseless new phase.  Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAs nations across Europe compete for attention from prospective British holidaymakers, infection rates in many popular tourist destinations are soaring. Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe coronavirus vaccines deployed in the UK could cut transmission of Covid-19 by as much as half, a major new study suggests. Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minuteOn 10 March the European Medicines Agency (EMA) said that Austria had suspended the use of a batch of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines  Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minuteTanzania’s main opposition leader has said President John Magufuli, an avowed coronavirus sceptic out of public view for nearly two weeks Read…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteMatt Hancock last night hailed the Novavax vaccination’s 86.3 per cent effectiveness against the Kent strain of Covid-19. Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe World Health Organisation has urged countries to continue administering doses of the Oxford/AstraZenecacoronavirus vaccine, Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minuteVaccinated people are 30 per cent less likely to pass on Covid after their first dose and less than half as likely…