The Government has signed deals for 90 million doses of promising Covid-19 vaccines, with more in the pipeline. The latest deal is for vaccines being developed by an alliance between
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A cluster of coronavirus infections has been confirmed at an NHS Test and Trace call centre in North Lanarkshire. Measures have been brought in by the region’s health board to
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A Belfast nurse is heading up a new coronavirus isolation and treatment centre in the world’s largest refugee camp. Rachel Fletcher has been working in Cox’s Bazar area of Bangladesh
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The Government has admitted that England’s Covid-19 Test and Trace programme has broken a data protection law, according to a letter sent to privacy campaigners. The Department of Health and
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Covid-19 patients are being left “broken” by long-term health issues that are not being taken seriously enough by the Government, campaigners say. Thousands of patients across the UK say they
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Asylum seekers have told how they fear for their lives at the hands of coronavirus while living in “crowded” Government accommodation as they await a decision on their claims. Two
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A member of staff at a coronavirus-hit care home on Skye has retested positive for the virus. NHS Highland confirmed the worker at the Home Farm care home in Portree
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A trial Covid-19 “clinic-on-wheels” testing facility is being launched in Glasgow. The Connected Mobile Health Clinic (CMHC) is designed to provide remote testing and tracking of care home residents and
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Outbreaks of coronavirus are up to 20 times more likely in large care homes, according to research. The NHS Lothian and Edinburgh University study looked at 189 care homes in
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Human trials of a potential Covid-19 vaccine being developed by scientists in Oxford are reported to have shown promising results. Researchers believe they have made a breakthrough after discovering the
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