Britons aged over 75 to be offered Covid-19 booster shot in springThe Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI)said in January that plans should be made to offer a COVID-19 booster vaccination...
07 Mar, 2023, 06.37 PM IST
Britain approves Moderna's COVID shot for children aged six and olderThe Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) said the approval was granted after Moderna's vaccine, known as Spikevax, me...
14 Apr, 2022, 06.51 PM IST
Indian foreign minister Jaishankar urges UK to resolve COVID quarantine disputeEngland and Scotland will ease pandemic restrictions from early October, but the list of countries with approved vaccines does not include ...
21 Sep, 2021, 04.15 PM IST
UK prepares to vaccinate children ages 12-15The Department of Health said it wants "to be ready to hit the ground running" once approval comes and be in position to deliver shots in s...
28 Aug, 2021, 05.57 PM IST
UK hits vaccine milestone, warns of 'deadly' misinformationThe Department of Health said that 75.2% of people 18 and over in the U.K. have received a shot, and 49.5% are fully vaccinated after two d...
02 Jun, 2021, 11.04 PM IST
Prince William gets 1st dose, thanks those working on vaccine rolloutWilliam, 38, received his shot at London's Science Museum.
20 May, 2021, 07.28 PM IST
UK begins 'booster' shot trial of 7 different COVID-19 vaccinesBritain launched a nationwide study on Wednesday to explore whether giving a third dose "booster" shot of coronavirus vaccines would be saf...
19 May, 2021, 10.07 PM IST
UK hits Covid-19 vaccine target; PM Boris Johnson warns of more virus deathsDays before its self-imposed April 15 deadline, the government said everyone in its top priority groups - over 50s, health care workers and...
13 Apr, 2021, 05.18 PM IST
UK says vaccine shipment from India won't hurt poor nationsNadhim Zahawi, in an interview with The Associated Press, confirmed reports that the Serum Institute of India, one of the world's largest v...
06 Mar, 2021, 09.51 AM IST
UK says vaccine manufacturing is 'lumpy' but still on course for targetsBritain has inoculated 3,857,266 people with a first dose and 449,736 with a second dose. On vaccines administered per 100 people, the Unit...
18 Jan, 2021, 06.46 PM IST
UK has vaccinated around 2 million people: Health Secretary HancockAsked how many people had been vaccinated, Hancock said: "It's around the 2 million mark, but we're going to publish the exact figures tomo...
10 Jan, 2021, 04.20 PM IST
'Pivotal moment' as Britain set to roll out AstraZeneca vaccineSix hospitals in England will administer the first of around 530,000 doses Britain has ready. The programme will be expanded to hundreds of...
04 Jan, 2021, 01.31 PM IST
UK starts mass coronavirus vaccination programmeThe first patients in line on what has been dubbed "V-Day" -- the over-80s, care home workers and at-risk frontline health and social care ...
08 Dec, 2020, 11.28 AM IST
EU warns of risks of COVID-19 vaccine race after UK approval of Pfizer shotThe European Medicines Agency which is in charge of approving COVID-19 vaccines for the EU, said its longer procedure to approve vaccines w...
02 Dec, 2020, 04.36 PM IST
UK approves Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine: Who gets it first?Britain had ordered 40 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine - enough for just under a third of the population as two shots of the jab are ne...
02 Dec, 2020, 02.02 PM IST
UK secures 2 million more doses of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccineModerna's experimental vaccine is 94.5% effective in preventing COVID-19 based on interim data from a late-stage trial. Deliveries to Brita...
29 Nov, 2020, 10.02 AM IST
Britain secures 90 million possible COVID-19 vaccine doses from Pfizer/BioNTech, ValnevaWith no working vaccine against COVID-19 yet developed, Britain now has three different types of vaccine under order and a total of 230 mil...
20 Jul, 2020, 04.11 PM IST