Photo: Credit Reuters LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s medicine regulator has advised that people with a history of significant allergies do not get Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine after two people reported severe adverse reactions on the first day of rollout. Starting with the elderly and frontline workers, Britain began mass vaccinating its population on Tuesday, part of

90 year old Margaret Keenan, the first patient in the UK to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, administered by nurse May Parsons at University Hospital, Coventry, England, Tuesday Dec. 8, 2020. The United Kingdom, one of the countries hardest hit by the coronavirus, is beginning its vaccination campaign, a key step toward eventually ending the

Nurses at the Royal Free Hospital, London, simulate the administration of the Pfizer vaccine to support staff training ahead of the rollout, in London, Friday Dec. 4, 2020. (Yui Mok/Pool Photo via AP) By PAN PYLAS LONDON (AP) — The coronavirus vaccine developed by American drugmaker Pfizer and Germany’s BioNTech was being sent to hospitals

US President-elect Joe Biden said Thursday that he asked Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, to continue in his role and work with his administration. “I asked him to stay on in the exact same role he’s had for the past several presidents, and I asked him to

A refrigerated truck leaves the Pfizer Manufacturing plant in Puurs, Belgium/AP By Joe Murphy-Nicholas Cecil The world’s first supplies of approved Covid-19 vaccine arrive in Britain today, it can be revealed. A refrigerated truck was seen leaving the Pfizer manufacturing plant in Puurs, Belgium, on Thursday morning, thought to be en route to the UK.

This May 4, 2020, file photo provided by the University of Maryland School of Medicine, shows the first patient enrolled in Pfizer’s COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine clinical trial at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore. Pfizer and BioNTech say they’ve won permission Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020, for emergency use of their COVID-19 vaccine

55-day-old baby said to be in stable condition A Somali conjoined twin who was born with four legs underwent an eight-hour operation in Istanbul, Turkey on Sunday. ”The infant was born 55 days ago with severe anomalies at the Recep Tayyip Erdogan Training and Research Hospital in the Somali capital Mogadishu, a hospital supported by

The head of NHS Providers said precautions were needed now to avoid chaos in January, the busiest time of year for hospitals. Photograph: Steve Parsons/AP By Clea Skopeliti Senior minister urges MPs to take responsibility for hard decisions amid Tory rebellion Every hospital in England risks being overwhelmed by coronavirus cases if the new, tougher

Photo: Credit Evening Standard By Harriet Brewis More than 65,200 deaths involving Covid-19 have now occurred in the UK, with the number of weekly coronavirus-related deaths exceeding 1,000 for the first time since June. The country has recorded a total of 65,231 deaths involving the virus since the start of the pandemic, according to the

After staggering high on Saturday, numbers fall by nearly half at end of weekend France saw a sharp drop in coronavirus infections Sunday, a welcome respite after three days of watching numbers careen out of control. A staggering 86,852 cases were recorded Saturday — an all-time high for the country — but they fell by