Downing Street has denied that a NHS Test and Trace delay in alerting local authorities in hotspot areas to positive cases helped contribute to the spread of the Indian variant.
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Glasgow, East Renfrewshire, Moray and Midlothian are the council areas in Scotland with the highest coronavirus case rates per 100,000 people, the latest data indicates. The figures from Public Health
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Employment for frontline healthcare workers should be “conditional” on Covid-19 vaccination, according to an article in a medical journal. The piece published in the Journal of Medical Ethics suggests that
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Health and care workers who feel under pressure from their employers to get a coronavirus vaccine are more likely to decline a jab, early research suggests. Feeling pressurised often exacerbated
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An 85-year-old woman who suffers from dementia and is in a care home should not be given a coronavirus vaccine, a judge has ruled. Mr Justice Hayden was told that
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A single dose of a Covid-19 vaccine can slash transmission by up to half, according to a new study from Public Health England (PHE). The breakthrough findings offer further hope
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More than 400,000 members of England’s adult social care workforce have not received a coronavirus vaccine, figures suggest. Some 80.4% of eligible staff working at older adult care homes had
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The vaccination rate for staff at older adult care homes is below the level recommended by scientists advising the Government in more than half of England’s local authorities, figures show.
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Care home staff in England could be required to get a coronavirus vaccine as a condition of deployment to protect elderly residents, the Government has said. The Department of Health
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People over 16 in households of adults with a weakened immune system are to be prioritised for Covid-19 jabs in Wales. Adults who are immunosuppressed have a weaker immune system
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