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Two scientists credited with making major breakthroughs in the development of mRNA vaccine to fight Covid-19 have won the 2023 Nobel Prize for medicine. (Credit: Getty Images)

Covid-19 vaccine scientists win Nobel prize for medicine

NHS nurses are among the groups struggling to afford to eat (image: Getty Images)

Covid vaccine now offered to young clinically vulnerable children

Covid-19 booster injections will be offered to some this spring

Everything you need to know about spring 2023 Covid-19 booster jabs

Covid jab figures.

'Three out of five' receive autumn Covid-19 booster

Coronavirus booster vaccine jabs for millions of people in England will begin to be offered this week, the NHS has announced. Picture: PA.

Millions of vulnerable people to be offered spring Covid booster jab

South Shields Football Club's ground

Vaccine team will head to South Shields football club this weekend offering vacc...

A mobile vaccine team is heading to South Tyneside.

Minibus boost for vaccine effort with mobile team offering jabs

The JCVI recommended vaccinating vulnerable children in December (Photo: Getty Images)

How Covid vaccinations could be used to stop UK school disruption

A Covid vaccine booster which is aimed at tackling multiple variants of the virus has shown promise (Photo: Shutterstock)

Covid vaccine booster tackling multiple variants shows promise, suggests trial d...

Paxlovid has been approved by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) (Photo: Shutterstock)

New oral Covid antiviral treatment given approval for use in UK

Pregnant women should be given priority for the Covid vaccine (Photo: Getty Images)

Pregnant women given priority for Covid jabs due to ‘high risk’

A member of the public receives a dose of the Pfizer BioNtech vaccine at a vaccination centre (Getty Images)

Two jabs offer little protection against Omicron - but boosters up to 75% effect...

Vaccines should work against Omicron variant, WHO says (Photo: OLI SCARFF/AFP via Getty Images)

Covid vaccines should still protect against severe illness from Omicron - WHO sa...

Booster vaccines should protect people against Omicron, new study suggests

British adults could get fourth Covid jab as deal agreed for 114m extra doses

Pharmaceutical firms are working to tweak vaccines against new Omicron variant Chelsea Rocks

Over-40s to be offered Covid booster jab as vaccination programme extended

Molunpiravir has been shown to cut the risk of hospital admission or death by 50% among at-risk adults (Photo: Shutterstock)

Two new Covid antiviral drugs secured to protect most at-risk this winter

Health Secretary Sajid Javid has given an update regarding the rising number of Covid-19 cases in the UK at a Downing Street press conference (Photo: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images and Shutterstock)

Health Secretary Sajid Javid announces government’s Covid Plan B ‘will not be im...

Health Secretary Sajid Javid said: “I am delighted to confirm we may soon have a new defence in our arsenal with two new antiviral drugs that we have secured." Picture: Christopher Furlong - WPA Pool/Getty Images.

Deals agreed for new treatments for those most at risk from Covid-19

Children aged 12 to 15 in the UK are now eligible to receive a single dose of the Pfizer vaccine (Photo: Getty Images)

Giving kids second jab could prevent thousands of long Covid cases

Moderna found its Covid vaccine can wane in protection over time (Photo: Shutterstock)

Moderna backs Covid boosters after warning jab protection fades

(Left to right) Professor Wei Shen Lim, chair of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), Deputy Chief Medical Officer for England Professor Jonathan Van Tam and Dr June Raine, Chief Executive of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), during a media briefing in Downing Street, London, on coronavirus (Covid-19). Picture date: Tuesday September 14, 2021.

This is who will be getting the Covid-19 booster jabs when they begin next week

The scientist behind the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine has said giving booster jabs to everyone is unnecessary, and instead calls for doses to be sent to countries in need (Photo: Shutterstock)

Covid booster jabs not needed for everyone, says Oxford vaccine creator

Researchers reveal ‘mild or moderate’ side effects at-risk 12 to 15 year olds ha...

The risk of thrombocytopenia is almost nine times higher in someone infected with coronavirus compared to one vaccine dose (Photo: Getty Images)

Risk of blood clots 9 times higher from Covid infection than the vaccine

Brontë Bates and her husband Daniel on their wedding day.

Pregnant student urges others to get a Covid vaccine

Student Brontë Bates fell pregnant earlier this year and never had any doubt about receiving a Covid-19 vaccine.

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Covid protection could fall below 50 per cent for the elderly and healthcare workers by winter (Photo: Getty Images)

Protection from Covid vaccines starts to wane within 6 months

The vaccine doses will be delivered in the second half of next year (Photo: Getty Images)

UK secures 35m more Pfizer vaccine doses to ‘future-proof’ country from

People who have been fully vaccinated can still transmit the Delta variant (Photo: Getty Images)

Vaccinated people can still pass on Delta variant - but protection remains high

More people are being treated for eating disorders. (Photo: Shutterstock)

Pfizer vaccine effectiveness declines more quickly than AstraZeneca, finds study

The Moderna Covid-19 vaccine has been given approval for use in children aged 12 to 17 (Photo: Getty Images)

Moderna Covid vaccine given green light for 12 to 17 year-olds in UK

The drop-in Covid-19 vaccination clinics will be run from a bus at St James' Park at two home matches.

Toon fans invited to get Covid jab as match day clinics set up at St James' Park

Dr John Lloyd, one of the medic leading the vaccine delivery effort in South Tyneside.

More drop-in jab clinics as two thirds of residents in their 20s with first dose

Picture shows Rofida Morozaite of Caesar's Den with some of the restaurant's tasty mocktails

Bar and restaurant backs vaccine effort with prize draw and mocktails

The Melissa bus will be used in locations across South Tyneside to help offer people their Covid jab.

Where to catch the jab bus as drop-in sessions hit the road in South Tyneside

Mixing vaccines can generate high levels of antibodies which can protect against Covid (Photo: Getty Images)

Mixing Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines creates stronger immune response against ...

A woman receives a vaccine at the Chelsea F.C. pop up vaccine hub (Photo: Hollie Adams/Getty Images)

Period changes after Covid vaccine could be 'coincidence' despite 4,000 reports

Britain's medicines regulator said on June 4, 2021 the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine is safe for adolescents aged 12 to 15. Picture: Justin Tallis/AFP via Getty Images.

Pfizer Covid vaccine approved for use in 12 to 15-year-olds

The Delta variant is now dominant in the UK. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Study finds Pfizer vaccine recipients have lower antibody levels against Delta v...

The Pfizer Covid vaccine is likely to be effective against the Indian variant, BioNTech boss has said (Photo: Shutterstock)

Pfizer jab likely to be effective against Indian variant of Covid, says BioNTech...

Mixing vaccines can results in an increase of symptoms including chills and a fever (Getty Images)

Mixing Covid-19 vaccines may lead to increased symptoms, study suggests

People under the age of 40 are set to be offered an alternative to the AstraZeneca vaccine (Shutterstock)

Under-40s ‘to be offered AstraZeneca alternative’ over rare blood clot risk

The planned vaccine programme at schools would begin as early as September, according to press reports.

Plans being developed for school Covid vaccinations to begin in autumn

School pupils could receive a vaccine in September (Getty Images)

Secondary school pupils will receive vaccinations this September

Nadhim Zahawi told Sky News he couldn’t see any evidence against going through with the next stages of easing lockdown. (Photo by Hollie Adams/Getty Images)

Vaccine minister says fully-vaccinated must remain "careful" when meeting with e...

Health Secretary Matt Hancock

Millions of jabs secured for a vaccine booster programme in the autumn

Studies have already shown that both vaccines are highly effective at stopping people getting sick and ending up in hospital (Photo: Victoria Jones - Pool / Getty Images)

New Public Health England study suggests single dose of Covid vaccine ‘cuts tra...

One Pfizer or AstraZeneca vaccine leads to significant drop in Covid-19 cases (Photo by Victoria Jones - Pool / Getty Images)

One dose of Covid vaccine dramatically cuts infection rates for all age groups

Almost 7.5 million people are now are fully vaccinated in the UK (Photo: Getty Images)

Over 40s invited for Covid jab - as phase two of vaccine programme begins

Readers have had their say on whether children should be given a Covid-19 vaccination.

Your say on whether children should be vaccinated against Covid-19

Pfizer said the jab 'demonstrated 100 per cent efficacy and robust antibody responses' (Photo: Nick Potts/PA Wire)

Trials show Pfizer's Covid vaccine is ‘100 per cent effective’ among children ag...

These are the dates of the Easter bank holiday in 2021 - and why we celebrate

Novavax seeks approval of Covid jab amid UK-EU vaccine row - this is when it cou...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is also scheduled to receive his first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine (Photo: Chris Jackson/Getty Images)

MHRA says seek medical attention if headache lasts 4 days after AstraZeneca Covi...

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