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California Expands Vaccinations; U.K. Death Record: Virus Update Bloomberg 1/13/2021 Bloomberg News © Bloomberg A healthcare worker and a Covid-19 patient in the ICU ward at the Robert Bosch Hospital in Stuttgart, Germany, on Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021. Chancellor Angela Merkel warned that Germany faces hard lockdown measures into late March if authorities fail to contain a fast-spreading variant of the coronavirus. (Bloomberg) -- Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose Covid-19 vaccine may not be authorized for use until March, weeks later than U.S. officials have suggested. The n...

Ministers have insisted the UK is on track to hit a target of offering a Covid-19 vaccine to almost 14 million people by the middle of next month. But questions remain about the supply of vaccines.

AstraZeneca says to release 2 million vaccine doses a week to UK by mid-February

Government figures released this afternoon showed that 223,726 inoculations were carried out yesterday, up from 165,844 on Monday, the first day for which the daily information was available.

Second shots of coronavirus vaccine could be delayed even further amid growing evidence that spacing out the doses improves their effectiveness. The NHS vaccination programme aims to immunise about 14 million people at greatest risk of Covid by mid-February, with second doses due to be given up to 12 weeks later. But Public Health England’s head of immunisation, Mary Ramsay, told MPs on Wednesday that if infection data showed vulnerable groups,...