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The Government s Vaccines Task Force have now notified us there will be a significant reduction in weekly supply available from manufacturers beginning in week commencing March 29, meaning volumes for first doses will be significantly constrained, the letter said. They now currently predict this will continue for a four-week period, as a result of reductions in national inbound vaccines supply.
UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock dismissed the revelation in cursory fashion. We regularly send out technical letters to the NHS to explain the ups and downs of the supply over the future weeks, and what you re referring to is a standard one of those letters, he said at the daily Covid press briefing.
A late-stage study found that Novavax s coroanvirus vaccine is be 96% effective against the original COVID-19 strain and 100% effective at preventing severe disease.
Last week, Rishi Sunak was accused of robbing NHS budgets after he refused to tackle the full cost of treating the 8,021 COVID-19 patients who are currently in UK.