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[ad_1] France has backed Italy’s blocking of a shipment of Oxford / AstraZeneca vaccines to Australia, as Canberra urged Brussels to review Rome’s move to “break the rule book” in a sign of global tensions over vaccine supply. “We could do the same,” Olivier Véran, France’s health minister, said in …

[ad_1] Key points Live updates Show the latest updates 1614933828 What do we know about variants of the coronavirus as a new strain found in the UK? The variant, which is understood to have originated in the UK, has been designated as an “investigational variant” (VUI) by Public Health England …

[ad_1] Main article: ‘They are spending money for their own political gain’ Good morning and welcome to our Friday recap of the top stories, with me, Alison Rourke. Accusations of “pork barrel policy” have been leveled at the government, after a fund aimed at boosting the UK’s most disadvantaged spots …

[ad_1] Around the world, governments are weighing how they can convince a large enough number of people to get vaccinated against Covid-19 to achieve herd immunity. But an international survey shows that confidence in vaccines is already on the rise despite relatively few countries having launched public awareness campaigns, and …

[ad_1] Anti-vaccination books are being sold on Amazon and the Waterstones and Foyles websites, amid requests for warnings on items to combat the spread of misinformation. Best-selling books on Amazon include Anyone Who Tells You Vaccines Are Safe and Effective Is Lying, and Vaccine-nation: Poisoning the Population, One Injection at …

[ad_1] Italy became the first country to impose an EU export ban on coronavirus vaccines on Thursday when it blocked a shipment of 250,000 AstraZeneca injections to Australia. A spokesman for Australia’s Health Minister Greg Hunt said The Telegraph the blocked shipment “was not included in our distribution plan for …

[ad_1] Nursing union leaders have called “regrettable and bitterly disappointing” a 1% wage increase recommended for NHS workers, who said the government was “dangerously out of touch” with health workers. The figure, which covers 2021 and 2022, is contained in a document from the Department of Health and Social Care …

[ad_1] QQuestions arise about vaccine tourism in the UAE after the sisters of the King of Spain apparently skipped the queue when visiting their father in Abu Dhabi. James Badcock reports. Princesses Elena and Cristina, the two sisters of King Felipe of Spain, admitted to being vaccinated when they visited …

[ad_1] German health officials have changed the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine and recommended that it be safe for those over 65. The German Health Ministry said on Thursday that its independent vaccine committee has formally approved the COVID-19 jab for use in that age group. Comes after refuted claims in Europe that …

[ad_1] Hundreds of thousands of COVID-19 the deaths could have been prevented if the obesity epidemic had been addressed, the World Obesity Federation said. Obesity It has been linked to an increased risk of severe Covid-19 and death from the disease. And a report from the World Obesity Federation states …