Home antibody tests for COVID-19 to be made available in UK Up to 8,000 adults a day will be given free access to antibody tests through a new national surveillance programme, which will be launched by the UK Health Security Agency next week. From Tuesday 31 August 2021, anyone aged over 18 years old will…
Latest estimates indicate that Covid vaccines have prevented nearly 100,000 deaths in England Official figures suggest that the Covid-19 vaccines have prevented nearly 100,000 deaths in England, 82,100 hospital admissions and up to 24.4 million infections. Separate figures from the Office for National Statistics show that 94.2 per cent of adults in the UK are…
Covid vaccinations for 16 and 17-year-olds to start within weeks After a recommendation from vaccine experts, all 16 and 17-year-olds in the UK will start being offered a first dose of the Covid jab within weeks. The change in guidance means that around 1.4 million teenagers will be eligible to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech jab with…
UK close to reaching herd immunity As weekly cases of Covid continue to fall, scientists believe that the UK may be on the cusp of herd immunity. The current threshold for herd immunity is believed to be 93% and this week experts at University College London calculated that the UK population’s total immunity is at…
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