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Once you’ve vaccinated the elderly and clinically extremely vulnerable, the question of who you vaccinate next isn’t as simple as going down the age brackets

Doses Two Country US Efficacy 72% in preventing mild to moderate cases in US trials but 66% efficacy observed in international trials. 85% efficacy against severe illness, and 100% protection against hospitalisation and death. Doses: One, making it unique among Covid vaccines with phase 3 results so far Photograph: Stéphane Mahé/X02520 Thank you for your feedback. While both the US and the EU have procured more than 1bn effective doses each, these numbers equate to lower rates of 3.4 and 2.4 per person. The UK has placed orders for a further 120m vaccines from Sanofi-GSK and Valneva, but ...

A nurse preparing a dose of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine at a mass vaccination centre in Surrey. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/EPA Sharing UK Covid vaccines with countries in Europe and beyond is in the UK’s best interests, scientists have said, as the row over supplies intensifies. A dispute has sprung up between the UK and EU over the supply of Covid vaccines, after the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca told the EU it would not be able to deliver all of the doses ordered by the end of March due to production problems at plants on the c...

BBC News Published image copyrightGetty Images The government is considering making vaccinations mandatory for care staff, according to Health Secretary Matt Hancock. Some countries and travel firms are looking at whether people could be asked to prove their Covid status with a "vaccine passport". Could care home staff have to get vaccinated? The UK government is considering whether care workers in England should have to be vaccinated, Mr Hancock said. The health secretary told Sky News the government was looking at "those who work in elderly care homes, on the grounds that they are the most...

Blood antibody testing by the Office for National Statistics shows that around 5.4million people in England had been infected with Covid by December, and at least a million more people have had it since.