EVERY care home resident has been offered a Covid vaccine but up to 20% of staff have REFUSED - as UK records its highest daily doses at 598,389 bringing number of Britons to have had at least first jab to nearly 9million
NHS England says residents at over 10,000 care homes have been offered jab
The Government had promised to achieve the milestone by the end of January
Nearly 600,000 coronavirus vaccines given in latest batch of official figures
Data shows 8,251,146 have now been given in England between Dec 8 and Jan 30
It comes as the number of daily Covid cases and deaths across UK fell in a week
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Ireland has ordered 3.3 million doses of the AstraZeneca jab but faces potential delays to delivery after the pharmaceutical giant warned the EU that initial supplies would be lower than anticipated.
Speaking to BBC Radio 4, Mrs Foster tore into Brussels for using emergency powers contained in the Brexit withdrawal agreement to stop Northern Ireland being used as a ‘back door’ for scarce Covid vaccines being exported to the UK.
Neale Richmond, European affairs spokesman for Ireland’s Fine Gael party, said the vaccine offer was ‘very generous’ but ‘unlikely to be realised’ because Ireland was part of the European vaccine roll-out.
The number of female CEOS in Fortune 500 companies hit a record high
There is still some way to go before we achieve anything resembling equality at the highest echelons of business but there were some signs in 2020 that we are on the right path. The number of female CEOs in Fortune 500 companies reached 41 this year. Katharine Graham was the first woman to make the list in 1972 when she became CEO of The Washington Post. Since then, she has paved the path for many more including Best Buy s Corie Barry, Upwork s Hayden Brown and CVS Health Corp s Karen Lynch.
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