Teesside doctor, firefighter and charity champions recognised in the Queen s New Year Honours
A former MP and doctor is among those to have made the list
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Dr Paul Williams, left, Paul Thompson, top centre, Kevin Byrne, bottom, and Jo Heaton, right, are among the local people on the list
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The Royal College of GPs chairman Professor Martin Marshall said that approval of the Oxford jab would greatly increase the speed of the roll-out. He told Radio 4 s Today programme yesterday: At the moment we are dealing with this Pfizer vaccine, which is difficult. On the assumption that we are going to get approval for the AstraZeneca vaccine - which is much more familiar because it is much more like the flu vaccination - we will be able to roll-out at a much faster pace. Certainly over the next few weeks and months we expect all care homes to be covered.
Coronavirus vaccine could run out by end of January unless new ones approved soon, warns Jeremy Hunt
Jeremy Hunt said that if the Oxford-AstraZenca vaccine is approved by regulators before the end of the year it will ensure that the roll-out of the vaccination programme can be maintained.
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The Prime Minister said 350,000 people in the UK have received the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine, as his chief medical officer suggested the jab gives room for optimism amid a “terrible” moment in the pandemic.
Boris Johnson revealed the number of people who had already received the initial injection of the Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine during a Downing Street press conference on Saturday.
Appearing alongside him, Professor Chris Whitty, England’s chief medical officer, said the spread of a new variant of coronavirus was another “terrible” moment in the pandemic, but not “the worst” because of medical treatments and the vaccine rollout.
Stocks of coronavirus vaccine could run out at the end of January unless new ones such as the Oxford jab are approved, a former minister has warned.
Former health secretary Jeremy Hunt told the BBC’s Today programme on Saturday that if the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine was approved soon it would make a “massive difference” because current stocks of the Pfizer jab will run out at the end of January.
His comments come amid reports the Oxford vaccine could be approved before the new year, with the Daily Telegraph reporting senior Whitehall sources believe the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) will authorise it on December 28 or 29.