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350,000 people in UK receive first COVID-19 jab, PM says Andy Hayes, news reporter The prime minister has said 350,000 people across the UK have received their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine. © Imagebridge A member of medical staff preparing a Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 jab Boris Johnson revealed the figure after being asked for it by a member of the public during Saturday's Downing Street news conference. Mike from Cheshire suggested the number should be added to the daily statistics released about positive tests and fatalities. Mr Johnson said he was confident that a "...

Professor Chris Whitty, England's chief medical officer, said it was the "working assumption" that the vaccine would work against the new variant. He told the news conference: "I think this is a situation which is going to make things a lot worse. (But) there are some really optimistic things - assuming the vaccine works against this, which I think at the moment is the working assumption." Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player 'I didn't even feel it': Prue Leith gets COVID jab Daniel Altmann, professor of immunology at Imperial College London, struck a mor...

New coronavirus strain ‘moves fast’ and is becoming the dominant variant The new strain – now officially named VUI-202012/01 - may be “up to 70 per cent” more transmissible than earlier strains 22 December 2020 • 9:29pm Britain on Dec 19 alerted the World Health Organisation about a new variant of the coronavirus that the Prime Minister said may be “up to 70 per cent” more transmissible than earlier strains. Sir Patrick Vallance, the Government’s chief scientific officer, did not put a number on it but agreed the new strain – now officially named VUI-202012/01 – showed ...