Health

[ad_1] Viktor Orban’s praise for Britain’s Brexit comes after he joined Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki in vetoing the bloc’s € 1.8 trillion budget and pandemic recovery package. Orban weighed in on the debate surrounding the UK’s approval of a COVID-19 vaccine made by Pfizer and BioNTech, in a world …

[ad_1] COVID-19 will keep hospitals under continued pressure for months to come, as the new vaccines will only have a “marginal impact” on the number of patients during the winter, UK medical directors warned. In a letter written to healthcare colleagues, the group, which includes England’s Professor Chris Whitty, also …

[ad_1] The coronavirus vaccine will have only a marginal impact on hospital admissions over the next three months and the holiday season is likely to put additional pressure on health services, UK medical directors warned. In a letter sent to health workers on Friday, CMOs for England, Wales, Scotland and …

[ad_1] Tributes were paid to a 16-year-old boy who was among the four victims of an explosion at a water treatment plant near Bristol. Police named them Michael James, 64, Brian Vickery, 63, Raymond White, 57, and Luke Wheaton, 16. The teenager is understood to have been an apprentice at …

[ad_1] People who receive a COVID-19 vaccine can have immunity for 90 days, government scientific advisers have said. In a paper considered by the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), which also discussed the much-discussed concept of immunity certificates, experts say the duration of immunity against “natural infection or vaccination” …

[ad_1] Four people have been identified who died in a large explosion at a sewage treatment plant, including one only 16 years old. Avon & Somerset police have named the victims as Michael James, 64, Brian Vickery, 63, Raymond White, 57, and Luke Wheaton, 16. Luke, Brian and Ray worked …

[ad_1] Liverpool Mayor Joe Anderson was arrested as part of a fraud investigation and suspended from the Labor Party. Anderson, who has run Liverpool for a decade, was one of five men arrested in Merseyside on Friday in an investigation into construction and development contracts in the city. He is …

[ad_1] Millions of free-range chickens and other birds will have to stay indoors from December 14, in an offensive by the national government to try to limit the spread of a virulent strain of bird flu in Britain. The Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said in a …

[ad_1] A paranoid schizophrenic who admitted to cutting the throat of a seven-year-old girl in a park was acquitted of murder. Eltiona Skana had admitted to the murder of Emily Jones on grounds of diminished responsibility, but was on trial after pleading not guilty to murder. On Thursday, evidence was …

[ad_1] The first doses of the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine are believed to have arrived in the UK, shortly after the regulator said it could be rolled out. The first hits will be administered by the NHS on Tuesday, according to Chris Hopson, executive director of NHS Providers. Of the …