A single-shot coronavirus vaccine from Johnson & Johnson has been approved for use in the UK. The vaccine, developed by Johnson & Johnson’s pharmaceutical arm Janssen, has been shown to
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A Government U-turn on plans to ban social care staff moving between care homes is the right decision, a nursing union has said. The Government said it has decided not
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Under fire Health Secretary Matt Hancock has insisted he told the Prime Minister people would be tested for coronavirus before being moved from hospitals to care homes “when we could
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Families of loved ones with dementia have been “pushed to breaking point” during the pandemic, according to Labour. Shadow health minister Liz Kendall said there has been a higher proportion
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The Government did everything it could to minimise Covid transmission, the Prime Minister has insisted, as he faced questions on why people were discharged from hospital to care homes with
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The majority of school leaders polled by a headteachers’ union said they had raised safeguarding concerns about pupils during the pandemic, a select committee was told. Tim Bowen, president of
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Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the “unsubstantiated” attacks on him by Dominic Cummings are “not true”, as he fought to save his career. Boris Johnson’s former aide accused Mr Hancock
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Between 20,000 and 30,000 lives could have been saved if the UK had locked down a week earlier, a leading adviser said, as he told how scientists grew increasingly concerned
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The Scouts want to recruit more adult volunteers after losing 15,000 during the coronavirus pandemic. The movement is launching the #GoodForYou campaign which aims to recruit at least 5,000 volunteers
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Campaigners have won a Court of Appeal challenge over an “unlawful” exemption to data protection rules in immigration cases. The Open Rights Group and the3million said the “immigration exemption” introduced
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