NHS 'Winter War Rooms' launched to manage on-going pressure on hospitalsNHS launches winter war rooms to tackle emergency healthcare needs and ease pressure on hospitals. As the future is expected to be a little...
01 Dec, 2022, 05.01 PM IST
UK lowers COVID-19 alert level from ‘rising exponentially' to ‘general circulation'As Britain moves through its roadmap of easing lockdowns, with Prime Minister Boris Johnson set to confirm that more restrictions on indoor...
10 May, 2021, 07.12 PM IST
UK COVID-19 vaccine rollout expands to over-60s in latest phaseAlmost 2 million people aged 60 to 63 will be invited after over 64s had been covered in the previous phase and letters will start arriving...
28 Feb, 2021, 10.16 AM IST
All over-70s urged to get COVID-19 jabs as UK nears vaccine targetOver 12 million people in England have now received jabs to protect against coronavirus and the government is expected to expand the criter...
13 Feb, 2021, 07.06 PM IST
Vaccinated people may still transmit COVID-19, warns England's chief medicEngland's Deputy Chief Medical Officer, also warned that there is no clear evidence yet to show that vaccinated people cannot transmit the ...
24 Jan, 2021, 04.19 PM IST
UK's vaccination programme expands to cover over-70sThe NHS has so far been working to vaccinate the first two priority cohorts recommended by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisat...
18 Jan, 2021, 03.17 PM IST
UK warns people with serious allergies to avoid Pfizer vaccineBritain began mass vaccinating its population on Tuesday in a global drive that poses one of the biggest logistical challenges in peacetime...
09 Dec, 2020, 05.40 PM IST
UK investigates possible allergic reactions to COVID-19 shotUK regulators say people who have a "significant history'' of allergic reactions shouldn't receive the new Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vacc...
09 Dec, 2020, 04.47 PM IST
87-year-old Indian-origin man first to get COVID-19 vaccine in UKHari Shukla from Tyne and Wear said he feels it is his duty to receive his first of the two-dose vaccine, a moment UK Prime Minister Boris ...
08 Dec, 2020, 08.32 AM IST
UK readies 'V-Day' Covid vaccination campaignThe world-first rollout of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is due to start on Tuesday -- dubbed "V-Day" by Health Secretary Matt Hancock, who h...
07 Dec, 2020, 05.14 PM IST
UK prepares for 'historic moment' of vaccination against COVID-19Frontline healthcare staff, people over the age of 80 and care home workers will be among the first to get the vaccine as part of Phase 1 o...
06 Dec, 2020, 04.28 PM IST
United Kingdom unveils 3-level lockdown plan; Liverpool at highest riskPM Boris Johnson told lawmakers that the goal of the new system was to save lives without ``shuttering our lives and our society'' through ...
13 Oct, 2020, 10.47 AM IST
British PM Johnson: Too risky to relax coronavirus lockdown yetBritish Prime Minister Boris Johnson has returned to Downing Street, a month after being diagnosed with the deadly coronavirus, to take cha...
27 Apr, 2020, 02.26 PM IST
UK will recover 'quickly and strongly' after COVID-19 crisis: Rishi SunakThe economic impact of the COVID-19 crisis would be "significant, but temporary", UK's Indian-origin finance minister Rishi Sunak has said,...
15 Apr, 2020, 10.48 AM IST
Boris Johnson making 'good progress' in virus recovery as UK death toll nears 10,000The 55-year-old leader was spending his second full day out of intensive care at London's St Thomas' Hospital, where he has been able to ta...
12 Apr, 2020, 08.56 AM IST
Indian-origin UK medics chief warns doctors' lives being put at riskAccording to a recent survey, more than half of doctors working in high-risk environments said there were either shortages or no supply at ...
11 Apr, 2020, 05.28 PM IST
UK PM Boris Johnson 'improving' as he fights COVID-19 in intensive careThe statement reiterated that the UK prime minister remains in "good spirits" as it was indicated that while he is not actively working, he...
08 Apr, 2020, 11.52 PM IST