MORE than nine in 10 Cheshire West and Chester residents aged 50 and above have now received their first Covid vaccine. Figures revealed by Cheshire West and Chester Council s director of public health Ian Ashworth showed a total of 92 per cent of those aged 50 and over had now been given at least one dose of a Covid vaccine. This is higher than the England average of 89 per cent. The figures were revealed at CWaC s latest Covid Outbreak Board meeting on Wednesday, April 21. It has since been revealed that for the NHS Cheshire CCG area, 54.1 per cent of those aged 45-49 have received their first dose of the jab. Those aged 45-49 without underlying health issues were eligible to book their vaccine appointments only 10 days ago.
Overloaded - Calls to Solihull GP team surge by 13,000
Access concerns as Covid causes unprecedented pressures
12:05, 21 APR 2021
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Solihull patients are still struggling to access GP services, with the borough s largest partnership seeing monthly calls surge by more than 13,000.
Solihull Healthcare Partnership (SHP), which serves some 55,000 patients, is among the groups to have drawn criticism.
Covid eight times more likely to cause rare brain clot than AstraZeneca vaccine, study finds Samuel Lovett
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The risk of developing a rare brain clot from Covid-19 is about eight times greater than from the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine, according to a new study.
Researchers at the University of Oxford, who are not linked to the vaccine, also found that people infected with coronavirus are “manyfold times” more likely than normal to develop the rare clotting disorder, known as cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT), where blood clots in the veins that run from the brain.
“There’s no doubt that Covid is a much greater risk of this [condition] than any of the vaccines,” said Professor Paul Harrison, a co-author of the study.