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PREMIUM The study is tracking cases of hospital admission for Covid among patients who have been vaccinated, versus those unvaccinated. At this stage the data covers first doses rather than second. ONE in 14 patients admitted to hospital since Britains vaccine rollout began had had at least their first inoculation, with over 100 mostly frail elderly patients dying with Covid more than three weeks after receiving the jag. Scientists stressed that the findings were to be expected and that a s...

Just one in 100 people hospitalised with Covid got their jab at least three weeks before Real-world data showed a vast majority became infected just before getting their vaccine, or too soon afterwards for immunity to develop Coronavirus vaccines being prepared at Salisbury Cathedral, Wiltshire, as the rollout continues Credit: PA Just one in 100 people hospitalised with Covid since the start of Britains vaccine rollout had received a jab at least three weeks before, new data shows. Scientists ...

Jane Kirby 21 April 2021, 6:35 am Fewer than 2% of frail and elderly people admitted to hospital after a Covid-19 vaccine experienced coronavirus symptoms three weeks after a single dose of the jab, data shows. The findings were described as “very good news” by Professor Calum Semple, a member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), who worked on the academic paper. It comes as Professor Adam Finn, from the University of Bristol and a member of the Joint Committee on Vaccin...

Fewer than 2% of frail and elderly people admitted to hospital after a Covid-19 vaccine experienced coronavirus symptoms three weeks after a single dose of the jab, data shows. The findings were described as “very good news” by Professor Calum Semple, a member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), who worked on the academic paper. It comes as Professor Adam Finn, from the University of Bristol and a member of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), sai...

TOLL SLOWS UK Covid deaths plunge by 42 per cent in a week with 22 fatalities and 2,396 cases recorded in last 24 hours Updated: 21 Apr 2021, 18:44 Invalid Date, UK Covid deaths have plunged by 42 per cent in a week, with 22 more fatalities reported today. The total number of infections in the UK now stands at 4,395,703 after 2,396 more cases were recorded in the last 24 hours. �� 2 2 And with todays figures, the grim Covid death toll is now at 127,327. The daily coronavirus case rise tod...

More than 150 suspected outbreaks of acute respiratory infection have been recorded on construction sites since Public Health England (PHE) started collecting data last year, Construction News can reveal. Under the Freedom of Information Act, CN obtained the figures for all such reports to England’s health monitor from July 2020 until late February 2021. The data shows that construction sites have reported 152 cases of acute respiratory infection to health protection teams. A further six bu...

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UK reaches 41,385 cases in new daily record Save Save D-Day veteran Robert Sullivan, 98, is injected with the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine by Chief Nurse Pippa Nightingale Credit: Getty Images Europe  Follow Covid-19 cases recorded in a single day have risen above 40,000 for the first time, as Public Health England (PHE) warned "hospitals are at their most vulnerable". The Government said that, as of 9am on Monday, there had been a further 41,385 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus in the...

New coronavirus strain detected around the globe, from Gibraltar to Australia Scientists say variant may already be circulating in countries with less advanced detection methods than Britain Medical staff attend a mass beneath a cross outside the Tor Vergata hospital in Rome Credit: AFP Cases of the new coronavirus variant were detected around the world on Monday, from Italy and Gibraltar to Denmark and Australia. Calum Semple, professor of outbreak medicine at the University of Liverpool and a...

Vanessa Chalmers, Digital Health Reporter 21 Dec 2020, 14:45 Updated: 21 Dec 2020, 15:31 THE new strain of Covid is in every corner of the UK already, maps reveal, as fears of its ability to spread at a rapid rate. Each nation has reported cases caused by the variant, which is 70 per cent more contagious than the "original" coronavirus type. ⚠️ Read our coronavirus live blog for the latest news & updates 2 How any people are estimated to have Covid caused by genes related to the new strain...