The UK government has said that more than 150,000 people have died after catching coronavirus in the country, which is one of the worst affected in Europe
The UK government said late Wednesday it has ordered 114 million additional Covid-19 vaccine doses, from pharmaceutical giants Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, to bolster its jabs drive over the next two years.
see soaring case rates? with that feed into hospitalisations? encouraging news that we see from the data right now is that despite opening back up, despite dropping lots of restrictions in england, those case rates aren t shooting up in a way that many people feared and people warned. it s very encouraging for the future, the next couple of months or so. it obviously looks like the vaccine programme has severely weakened the link between cases and hospitalisations, but also importantly, it looks like the vaccine ride in the success of the vaccine ride in the success of the vaccine roll out is also having a positive impact on cases and transmission and helping drive cases down, which is incredibly encouraging. i think you look at other countries, australia for one, not straying too far from home, but they are having all sorts of interesting cases go up and having nervousness about lockdowns because they haven t rolled out their vaccine yet, so we are really starting to see the benefit o
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Europe s vaccination program is unacceptably slow : WHO
European nations immunisation campaigns against COVID-19 are âunacceptably slowâ and risk prolonging the pandemic, a senior World Health Organisation official said Thursday. Dr. Hans Kluge, WHO s regional director for Europe, said vaccines âpresent our best way out of this pandemic,â but noted that to date, only 10% of Europe s population has received one dose and that only 4% have been fully protected with two doses.
âAs long as the coverage remains low, we need to apply the same public health and social measures as we have in the past, to compensate for delayed schedules,â Kluge said.
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The NHS has been told that there will be a reduction in the weekly supply in vaccine jabs, from the week commencing 29 March, meaning volumes for first doses will be significantly constrained. In a letter to local health leaders, signed by Emily Lawson, NHS Chief Commercial Officer and SRO Vaccine Programme, as well as Dr Nikita Kanani, Medical Director for Primary Care, NHS England said this will continue for a four-week period, as a result of reductions in national inbound vaccines supply .