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Is Europe Getting Its COVID Vaccine Rollout Wrong? On 1/19/21 at 12:51 PM EST Just days after the Brexit transition period ended at the end of 2020, as the United Kingdom was plunged into an undetermined period of strict national lockdowns, Prime Minister Boris Johnson was keen to deliver some good news - he revealed the U.K. is beating Europe in the global vaccine race. He said at the time that the nation's ambitious vaccine program had seen more people vaccinated in the U.K. "than in the rest of Europe combined" and that Britain was now in a "sprint in a race against the virus" to vaccinate...

British Schools Might Not Open After Christmas Following COVID Mutation Newsweek 21/12/2020 Zoe Drewett © Oli Scarff/Getty Year eight pupils at an academy in Huddersfield, northern England, when schools returned in September The British government has refused to rule out keeping school children at home following the Christmas break after large parts of the country were placed under strict lockdown. A new strain of the COVID-19 virus detected in southern England that could be up to 70 percent more transmissible has seen London and much of southeast England placed under new...

UNICEF Will Help Feed U.K. Children for First Time in Its History On 12/16/20 at 7:13 AM EST For more than 70 years UNICEF has worked across 190 countries to support the world's most vulnerable children but for the first time in its history, the COVID crisis has seen the United Kingdom added to the list. Hunger among children hit by the COVID-19 crisis in Britain is a "domestic emergency", the charity said. It will help support children and families at risk of food insecurity this Christmas with £25,000 ($34,000) of funding for a project to supply almost 20,000 breakfasts to children during ...

Quarter of World's Population Won't Access COVID Vaccine Until 2022 Newsweek 12/16/2020 Zoe Drewett © Jose M. Osorio/Getty Dr. Marina Del Rios receives Chicago's first COVID-19 vaccination from Dr. Nikhila Juvvadi at Loretto Hospital, on December 15 Almost a quarter of the world's population will not have access to a COVID-19 vaccine until 2022, according to new research published in the United Kingdom. Experts from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, U.S., said high-income countries have already secured billions of doses, with uncertainty ar...

Relaxing COVID Rules at Christmas Is 'Major Error That Will Cost Lives' On 12/15/20 at 12:39 PM EST Plans to let people across the United Kingdom meet up and celebrate Christmas together hang in the balance after medical experts warned it "will cost lives". The government in England, under plans agreed with the devolved administrations of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, will see restrictions suspended for five days to allow up to three households to form a "Christmas bubble" and meet between 23 and December 27. U.K. Health Secretary Matt Hancock told a press conference at Downing Street...